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of one coming to him through repentance, it is impossible, if indeed the pure in heart see God.

Let us hasten then, I beseech you, my fathers and brothers and children, to acquire a pure heart by diligence in our ways and by continual confession of the hidden thoughts of the soul. For the confession of such things made by us continually and daily, proceeding from a repentant heart, works in us repentance for things done or even contemplated, (182) and repentance moves a tear from the depths of the soul, and the tear cleanses the heart and makes great sins disappear, and when these are wiped away through tears in supplication, the soul becomes of the Divine Spirit and is irrigated with streams of sweetest compunction, from which it is daily nourished spiritually and brings forth the fruits of the Spirit and in due season, like abundant grain, it yields them up for the inexhaustible food of the soul and for its incorruptible and eternal life. And having rightly attained to this through diligence, it is made intimate with God and becomes a house and dwelling place of the Divine Trinity, seeing purely its own Maker and God and conversing with Him daily, it departs from the body and the world and this air and ascending to the heavens of heavens and being lifted up by the virtues and the wings of the love of God, it rests from its labors with all the righteous and comes to be in the infinite and divine light, where the choirs of Christ's apostles, the martyrs, the saints, and all the powers above dance together.

Let us also, therefore, brothers in Christ, attain to such a state, so that we may not be left behind by our holy fathers, but that through diligence in good things and the working of Christ's commandments we may reach a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. For there is nothing to hinder it, if only we are willing. For thus we shall both glorify God in ourselves and God will be gladdened by us and (183) we shall find God when we depart from the present life, as a great bosom of Abraham receiving and warming us in the kingdom of heaven, which may we all attain by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.

Concerning participation in the Holy Spirit and holiness and perfect dispassion. And that he who loves glory from men is not profited at all by the other virtues, even if he has accomplished them all.

Discourse 10. (184) Brothers and fathers, do you not see how those who stand before the earthly king both consider this a great glory and are proud of it, and have become objects of envy by the people in the world? If, then, they are so disposed toward corruptible and vain things, how much more ought we, who have enlisted with the heavenly king and have undertaken his service, to rejoice and be glad that we were deemed worthy to be enrolled at all in his service and were called to the ministry of his name? And if we should ever be deemed worthy of the sight of his face and be ranked with those who stand before him, what praise of blessedness does this not surpass? And if one should also become one of his own servants and friends and be deemed worthy to hear the Lord's speech and voice, what mind of man, what tongue then the magnitude of this glory and worth

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ἐρχομένου διά μετανοίας πρός αὐτόν, ἀμήχανον, εἴπερ οἱ καθαροί τῇ καρδίᾳ ὁρῶσι Θεόν.

Σπουδάσωμεν οὖν, παρακαλῶ, πατέρες μου καί ἀδελφοί καί τέκνα, καθαράν κτήσασθαι τήν καρδίαν ἐξ ἐπιμελείας τῶν τρόπων καί διηνεκοῦς ἐξομολογήσεως τῶν κρυπτῶν λογισμῶν τῆς ψυχῆς. Ἡ γάρ συνεχῶς καί καθ᾿ ἑκάστην γινομένη παρ᾿ ἡμῶν ἐξομολόγησις τῶν τοιούτων, ἐκ μεταμέλου κινουμένη καρδίας, μετάνοιαν ἡμῖν τῶν πραχθέντων ἤ καί μελετηθέντων ἐργάζεται, (182) ἡ δέ μετάνοια κινεῖ τό δάκρυον ἐκ βαθέων ψυχῆς, τό δέ δάκρυον καθαίρει τήν καρδίαν καί μεγάλας ἁμαρτίας ἐξαφανίζει, ἀπαλειφομένων δέ τούτων διά δακρύων ἐν παρακλήσει γίνεται ἡ ψυχή τοῦ Θείου Πνεύματος καί γλυκυτάτης κατανύξεως νάμασι καταρδεύεται, ἀφ᾿ ὧν καθ᾿ ἑκάστην πιαίνεται νοητῶς καί τρέφει τοῦ Πνεύματος τούς καρπούς καί ἐν καιρῷ προσφόρως, ὡς πολύχουν σῖτον, αὐτούς ἀναδίδωσιν εἰς τροφήν ἀδάπανον τῆς ψυχῆς καί εἰς ζωήν αὐτῆς ἄφθαρτον καί αἰώνιον. Ἐν τούτῳ δέ διά σπουδῆς καλῶς καταντήσασα, οἰκειοῦται Θεῷ καί γίνεται οἶκος Τριάδος Θείας καί ἐνδιαίτημα, ὁρῶσα καθαρῶς τόν ἑαυτῆς Ποιητήν καί Θεόν καί προσομιλοῦσα αὐτῷ καθ᾿ ἑκάστην, ἐξίσταται τοῦ σώματος καί τοῦ κόσμου καί τοῦ ἀέρος τούτου καί εἰς οὐρανούς οὐρανῶν ἀνερχομένη καί κουφιζομένη ταῖς ἀρεταῖς καί ταῖς πτέρυξι τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ Θεοῦ, καταπαύει μετά πάντων δικαίων ἀπό τῶν πόνων αὐτῆς καί γίνεται ἐν ἀπείρῳ καί θείῳ φωτί, ἔνθα τῶν ἀποστόλων Χριστοῦ, τῶν μαρτύρων, τῶν ὁσίων καί πασῶν τῶν ἄνω δυνάμεων τά τάγματα συγχορεύουσι.

Τοιαύτης οὖν καί ἡμεῖς γενώμεθα καταστάσεως, ἀδελφοί ἐν Χριστῷ, ἵνα μή ἀπολειφθῶμεν τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν τῶν ἁγίων, ἀλλ᾿ ἵνα διά σπουδῆς τῶν καλῶν καί ἐργασίας τῶν ἐντολῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς ἄνδρα τέλειον φθάσωμεν, εἰς μέτρον ἡλικίας τοῦ πληρώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ. Οὐδέν γάρ τό κωλῦον, εἰ μόνον θελήσομεν. Οὕτω γάρ καί Θεόν δοξάσομεν ἐν ἡμῖν αὐτοῖς καί Θεός παρ᾿ ἡμῶν εὐφρανθήσεται καί (183) Θεόν εὕρωμεν ἀπό τῆς παρούσης ἀναχωροῦντες ζωῆς, ὡς μέγαν κόλπον τοῦ Ἀβραάμ ὑποδεχόμενον ἡμᾶς καί ἐπιθάλποντα ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἧς γένοιτο πάντας ἡμᾶς ἐπιτυχεῖν χάριτι τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ᾧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τούς αἰῶνας. Ἀμήν.

Περί μετοχῆς Πνεύματος Ἁγίου καί ἁγιωσύνης καί τελείας ἀπαθείας. Καί ὅτι ὁ ἀγαπῶν τήν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων δόξαν οὐδέν ἐκ τῶν λοιπῶν ἀρετῶν

ὠφελεῖται, κἄν πάσας κατώρθωσε.

Λόγος Ι΄. (184) Ἀδελφοί καί πατέρες, οὐχ ὁρᾶτε πῶς οἱ τῷ ἐπιγείῳ βασιλεῖ παριστάμενοι, αὐτοί

τε δόξαν ἡγοῦνται τοῦτο μεγάλην καί ἐναμβρύνονται ἐπί τούτῳ, καί παρά τῶν ἐν κόσμῳ ἀνθρώπων ζηλωτοί καθεστήκασιν; Εἰ οὖν φθαρτοῖς οὗτοι καί ματαίοις οὕτω διάκεινται, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ἡμεῖς ὀφείλομεν, οἱ τῷ ἐπουρανίῳ βασιλεῖ στρατευθέντες καί τήν ἐκείνου δουλείαν ἀναδεξάμενοι, χαίρειν καί εὐφραίνεσθαι ὅτι ὅλως εἰς ὑπηρεσίαν ἐκείνου καταταγῆναι κατηξιώθημεν καί εἰς λειτουργίαν τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ προσεκλήθημεν; Εἰ δέ καί τῆς κατά πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ θέας ἐξιωθείημεν ποτέ καί μετά τῶν ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ παρισταμένων καταταγείημεν, ποῖον οὐχ ὑπερβαίνει τοῦτο μακαριότητος ἔπαινον; Εἰ δέ καί τῶν οἰκείων δούλων καί φίλων αὐτοῦ γένηταί τις καί ὁμιλίας καί φωνῆς ἀκούειν ∆εσποτικῆς καταξιωθήσεται, ποῖος ἄρα νοῦς ἀνθρώπου, ποία δέ γλῶσσα τῆς δόξης ταύτης καί τῆς ἀξίας τό μέγεθος