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what agreement has the temple of God with idols? The opposition between the merciful and the cruel is unmixable. Darkness does not endure the presence of light; sickness does not stand when health takes hold; the passions are not active when dispassion is present; death is gone, corruption unseen, when life reigns in us, and incorruption has the dominion. Let your will be done in me, so that the will of the devil may be extinguished. For just as in gloomy caves, when light is brought in, the gloom disappears, so when your will is done in me, every wicked and improper movement of the will is reduced to non-existence. Pleasure does not admit pain, nor grief joy, nor dejection gladness, nor again does prevailing pain accept pleasure, nor does conquering grief have joy yoked with it, nor is gladness mixed with dejection. For the contrary passions are unentangled with each other, and would never come to the same thing; nor will they ever be held hostage to a friendly communion, on account of their natural, implacable enmity and alienation. It is impossible for the love of the world to coexist with the love of God, just as it is impossible for light and darkness to coexist with each other

ELEMENT B.

TITLE 1. -Concerning the kingdom of heaven. Seek the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and these things

all will be added to you. From the days of John the Baptist the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid, and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field. - The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls; who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers, and so on. Jesus answered and spoke to them again in 95.1261 parables, saying: The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. And he sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding, and they were not willing to come; again he sent other servants, saying: Tell those who are invited, ‘See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding.’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his own work, another to his business; the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. When that king heard about it, he was enraged, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants: ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.’ Go therefore to the main roads, and invite to the wedding whomever you find. And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; and the wedding hall was filled with guests; and the rest of the passage. Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom, and the rest. The Lord said: The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. For the earth yields fruit by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, immediately he sends the

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συγκατάθεσις ναῷ Θεοῦ μετὰ εἰδώλων; Ἄμικτος ἡ τοῦ ἐλεήμονος καὶ τοῦ ἀπηνοῦς ἐναντίωσις. Οὐχ ὑπομένει τὸ σκότος τὴν τοῦ φωτὸς παρουσίαν· οὐ νόσος ὑγείας ἐπιλαβούσης ἵσταται· οὐκ ἐνεργεῖ τὰ πάθη τῆς ἀπαθείας παρούσης· φροῦδος ὁ θάνατος, ἀφανὴς ἡ φθορὰ, ὅταν ἐν ἡμῖν βασιλεύῃ ἡ ζωὴ, καὶ ἡ ἀφθαρσία τὸ κράτος ἔχῃ. Γενηθήτω ἐν ἐμοὶ τὸ θέλημά σου, ἵνα σβεσθῇ τοῦ διαβόλου τὸ θέλημα. Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐν τοῖς ζοφώδεσι τῶν σπηλαίων, φωτὸς εἰσκομισθέντος, ὁ ζόφος ἐξαφανίζεται, οὕτως τοῦ σοῦ θελήματος ἐν ἐμοὶ γενομένου, πᾶσα πονηρὰ καὶ ἄτοπος τῆς προαιρέσεως κίνησις εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν περιίσταται. Ἡδονὴ οὐ παραδέχεται πόνον, οὐδὲ λύπη χαρὰν, οὐδὲ κατήφεια εὐφροσύνην, οὐδὲ αὖ πάλιν πόνος δυναστεύων ἡδονὴν προσίεται, οὐδὲ κρατοῦσα λύπη ἔχει χαρὰν παρεζευγμένην, οὐδὲ κατηφείᾳ ἐγκέκραται εὐφροσύνη. Ἀνεπιπλόκως γὰρ ἔχει πρὸς ἄλληλα τὰ ἐναντία πάθη, καὶ οὐκ ἂν εἰς ταυτὸν ἔλθοι ποτέ· οὐδὲ ὁμηρεύσει ποτὲ πρὸς φιλικὴν κοινωνίαν, διὰ τὴν ἐκ φύσεως ἄσπονδον ἔχθραν καὶ ἀλλοτρίωσιν. Ἀμήχανον συνυπάρχειν τὴν πρὸς τὸν κόσμον ἀγάπην τῇ πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν ἀγάπῃ, ὡς ἀμήχανον συνυπάρχειν ἀλλήλοις φῶς καὶ σκότος

ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΟΝ Β.

ΤΙΤΛΟΣ Αʹ. -Περὶ βασιλείας οὐρανῶν. Ζητεῖτε τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ, καὶ ταῦτα

πάντα προστεθήσεται ὑμῖν. Ἀπὸ τῶν ἡμερῶν Ἰωάννου τοῦ Βαπτιστοῦ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν βιάζεται, καὶ βιασταὶ ἁρπάζουσιν αὐτήν. Ὁμοία ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν θησαυρῷ κεκρυμμένῳ ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ, ὃν εὑρὼν ἄνθρωπος ἔκρυψε, καὶ ἀπὸ χαρᾶς αὐτοῦ ὑπάγει, καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἔχει, πωλεῖ, καὶ ἀγοράζει τὸν ἀγρὸν ἐκεῖνον. - Ὁμοία ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ ἐμπόρῳ ζητοῦντι καλοὺς μαργαρίτας· ὃς εὑρὼν ἕνα πολύτιμον μαργαρίτην, ἀπελθὼν πέπρακε πάντα ὅ τι εἶχε, καὶ ἠγόρασεν αὐτόν. Ὁμοία ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ οἰκοδεσπότῃ, ὅστις ἐξῆλθεν ἅμα πρωῒ μισθώσασθαι ἐργάτας, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, πάλιν εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ἐν 95.1261 παραβολαῖς, λέγων· Ὡμοιώθη ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ βασιλεῖ, ὅστις ἐποίησε γάμους τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ. Καὶ ἀπέστειλε τοὺς δούλους αὐτοῦ καλέσαι τοὺς κεκλημένους εἰς τοὺς γάμους, καὶ οὐκ ἤθελον ἐλθεῖν· πάλιν ἀπέστειλεν ἄλλους δούλους, λέγων· Εἴπατε τοῖς κεκλημένοις, Ἰδοὺ τὸ ἄριστόν μου ἡτοίμασα, οἱ ταῦροι καὶ τὰ σιτιστὰ τεθυμένα, καὶ πάντα ἕτοιμα· δεῦτε εἰς τοὺς γάμους. Οἱ δὲ ἀμελήσαντες ἀπῆλθον, ὁ μὲν εἰς τὸ ἴδιον ἔργον, ὁ δὲ εἰς τὴν ἐμπορίαν αὐτοῦ· οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ κρατήσαντες τοὺς δούλους αὐτοῦ, ὕβρισαν καὶ ἀπέκτειναν. Καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐκεῖνος, ὠργίσθη, καὶ πέμψας τὰ στρατεύματα αὐτοῦ, ἀπώλεσε τοὺς φονεῖς ἐκείνους, καὶ τὴν πόλιν αὐτῶν ἐνέπρησεν. Τότε λέγει τοῖς δούλοις αὐτοῦ· Ὁ μὲν γάμος ἕτοιμος, οἱ δὲ κεκλημένοι οὐκ ἦσαν ἄξιοι. Πορεύεσθε οὖν ἐπὶ τὰς διεξόδους τῶν ὁδῶν, καὶ ὅσους ἂν εὕρητε, καλέσατε εἰς τοὺς γάμους. Καὶ ἐξελθόντες οἱ δοῦλοι ἐκεῖνοι εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς, συνήγαγον πάντας ὅσους εὗρον, πονηρούς τε καὶ ἀγαθούς· καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη ὁ γάμος ἀνακειμένων· καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τοῦ χωρίου. Τότε ὡμοιώθη ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν δέκα παρθένοις, αἵτινες λαβοῦσαι τὰς λαμπάδας αὐτῶν, ἐξῆλθον εἰς ἀπάντησιν τοῦ νυμφίου, καὶ τὰ λοιπά. Ἔλεγεν ὁ Κύριος· Οὕτως ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὡς ἐὰν ἄνθρωπος βάλῃ τὸν σπόρον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ καθεύδῃ, καὶ ἐγείρηται νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν, καὶ ὁ σπόρος βλαστάνῃ, καὶ μηκύνηται ὡς οὐκ οἶδεν αὐτός. Αὐτομάτη γὰρ ἡ γῆ καρποφορεῖ, πρῶτον χόρτον, εἶτα. ἄσταχυν, εἶτα πλήρη σῖτον ἐν τῷ στάχυϊ. Ὅταν δὲ παραδῷ ὁ καρπὸς, εὐθέως ἀποστέλλει τὸ