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and from above He provides rain. Below He fears, and above He thunders. Below He stands before a court, and from above He beholds Himself. And concerning almsgiving, the matter of the double energy concurs. For He who from above from the Cherubim bestows prizes on the merciful, this one, sitting before the Treasury, tests the philanthropic." And the same [author] in the discourse on Thomas the apostle against the Arians: "Having heard these things, I cleansed my soul of disbelief; I put off doubtful opinion, I took up conviction, I touched the body rejoicing and trembling. I stretched out the eye of my soul along with my fingers, and thus I perceived two energies." But indeed also the most wise Cyril, the president of the Alexandrians, in the thirty-second chapter of the *Thesaurus*: "For we will surely not grant that there is one natural energy of God and of a creature; so that we neither elevate what is made to the divine substance; nor bring down the excellence of the divine nature to the place (169) fitting for created things. For those whose energy and power are unchangeably one, for them it is necessary also that the unity of their genus be preserved."

These things, then, these Fathers of piety proclaimed resoundingly, whom from many or countless, and from the whole, so to speak, cloud of witnesses, we have cursorily brought forward, curtailing the volume of the text, for the clearest proof of their true knowledge concerning Christ the Savior of all. Spurred on by which, they, moved by the Spirit, handed down to the holy Churches to proclaim two wills and energies of the same one [Christ], just as His natures are two, and thus equal in number to the natures, both another and another, and a divine and a human will and energy, for the manifestation of the essential difference of the things from which, in which, and which He Himself is. With phantomism, together with confusion, and with these, division, being utterly rejected, as is fitting for the one and same God the Word incarnate for us, from which things He truly and unconfusedly is, knowing (being known) the indivisible union. For if the essential difference in the ultimate hypostatic union is not known without confusion, of the things united themselves, and of the things naturally belonging to Him, neither will the principle of the union be known without confusion. But those of the opposite and hostile party, the contrary. For Apollinarius the impious, speaks thus in his discourse entitled, "Proof concerning the divine incarnation in the likeness of man: and they do not remember that this will is said to be His own, not of a man, from the earth, as they suppose, but of God who came down from heaven." And the same [author] again, the dolt, in the [work] entitled: The very incarnate epiphany of God: "For Christ is one, moved by the divine will alone, according to which we also know His one energy, proceeding in various miracles and sufferings of His one nature. For He is and is believed to be God incarnate; and after a little." And the [saying]: Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not my will, but yours be done, does not have the indication of one and another will, not agreeing with each other, but of one and the same; being operated divinely; but economically declining death; since He who said this was God bearing flesh; having no difference in willing." But his disciple and successor in impiety, and one who, by his name, was an enemy to the word of truth, Polemon the heretic, in his *Antirrheticus* against the holy Fathers, perversely says these things: "For the Word (172) was God, who is Christ, and having been united to the perfection of the flesh and become man, did not mix with Himself a mutable mind, which is moved to contrary things by a natural will, but rather having become a mind to Himself, has done all things by an immutable divine will. But not, on the one hand, the divine, and on the other, the deified, according to the Cappadocian

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καί ἄνωθεν ὑετούς χορηγεῖ. Κάτω δειλιᾷ, καί ἄνω βροντᾷ. Κάτω δικαστηρίῳ παρέστηκε, καί ἄνωθεν ἑαυτόν θεωρεῖ. Περί δέ τήν ἐλεημοσύνην, συντρέχει τό τῆς διπλῆς ἐνεργείας. Ὁ γάρ ἄνωθεν ἐκ τῶν Χερουβίμ βραβεύων τοῖς ἐλεήμοσιν, οὗτος πρό τοῦ Γαζοφυλακίου καθήμενος δοκιμάζει τούς φιλανθρώπους." Ὁ δέ αὐτός ἐν τῷ εἰς Θωμᾶν τό ἀπόστολον κατά Ἀρειανῶν λόγῳ· "Ταῦτα ἀκούσας, ἐκάθαρα τήν ψυχήν ἀπιστίας· ἀπεδυσάμην τήν ἀμφίβολον γνώμην, ἀνέλαβοςν τό πεπεισμένον, ἠψάμην τοῦ σώματος χαίρων καί τρέμων. Ἐξήπλωσα μετά τῶν δακτύλων καί τῆς ψυχῆς ὄμμα, καί δύο λοιπόν ἐνεργειῶν ᾐσθόμην." Ἀλλά δή καί ὁ σοφώτατος Κύριλλος ὁ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων πρόεδρος, ἐν τῷ τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ τοῦ Θησαυροῦ κεφαλαίῳ· "Οὐ γάρ δή που μίαν εἶναι φυσικήν τήν ἐνέργειαν δώσομεν Θεοῦ καί ποιήματος· ἵνα μήτε τό ποιηθέν, εἰς τήν θείαν ἀνάγωμεν οὐσίαν· μήτε μήν τῆς θείας φύσεως τό ἐξαίρετον, εἰς τόν τοῖς γενητοῖς πρέποντα κατάγωμεν (169) τόπον. Ὧν γάρ ἡ ἐνέργεια, καί ἡ δύναμις ἀπαραλλάκτως μία, τούτοις ἀνάγκη καί τήν τοῦ γένους ἑνότητα σώζεσθαι."

Ταῦτα μέν οἵδε διαπρυσίως οἱ τῆς εὐσεβείας Πατέρες, οὕς ἐκ πολλῶν ἤ ἀπείρων, καί παντός οἷον, γραφικῶς εἰπεῖν, τοῦ τῶν μαρτύρων νέφους, κατ᾿ ἐπιδρομήν, τόν τοῦ γράμματος περιστελλόμενοι προκεκομίκαμεν ὄγκον, εἰς ἐναργεστάτην ἀπόδειξιν τῆς αὐτῶν περί τοῦ παντός Σωτῆρος ἀληθογνωσίας Χριστοῦ. Καθ᾿ ἥν ὁρμηθέντες, ταῖς ἁγίαις Ἐκκλησίαις πνευματοκινήτως παρέδωκαν δύο καθάπερ τοῦ αὐτοῦ καί ἑνός τάς φύσεις, οὕτως ἰσαρίθμους ταῖς φύσεσι, τά τε τοῦ αὐτοῦ θελήματα καί τάς ἐνεργείας πρεσβεύειν, καί ἄλλην καί ἄλλην, καί θείαν καί ἀνθρωπίνην θέλησιν καί ἐνέργειαν, εἰς δήλωσιν τῶν ἐξ ὧν, ἐν οἶς τε καί ἅπερ ἐστίν ὁ αὐτός οὐσιώδους διαφορᾶς. Τήν τε φαντασίαν ὁμοῦ καί τήν σύγχυσιν, καί σύν ταύταις παντελῶς τήν διαίρεσιν ἀποσκευαζομένης, ὡς ἑνί καί τῷ αὐτῷ δι᾿ ἡμᾶς σαρκωθέντι Θεῷ Λόγῳ, ἐξ ὧν ἐστι πραγματικῶς καί ἀνεπιθολώτως γνωριζούσης (γνωριζομένης) καθ᾿ ἕνωσιν τήν ἀδιάσπαστον. ∆ιαφορᾶς γάρ οὐσιώδους ἐπί τῆς καθ᾿ ὑπόστασιν ἄκρας ἑνώσεως ἀσυγχύτως οὐ γνωριζομένοις, αὐτῶν τε τῶν ἡνωμένων, καί τῶν προσόντων αὐτῷ φυσικῶς, οὐ δέ τῆς ἑνώσεως ἀσυγχύτως γνωρισθήσεται λόγος. Οἱ δέ τῆς ἐναντίας καί ἀντιπάλου μοίρας, τό ἔμπαλιν. Ἀπολινάριος μέν γάρ ὁ δυσσεβής, οὕτως φησίν ἐν τῷ ἐπιγεγραμμένῳ αὐτῷ λόγῳ. "Ἀπόδειξις περί τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως τῆς καθ᾿ ὁμοίωσιν ἀνθρώπου· καί οὐ μνημονεύουσιν ὅτι τό θέλημα τοῦτο ἴδιον εἴρηται, οὐκ ἀνθρώπου, τοῦ ἐκ γῆς, καθώς αὐτοί νομίζουσιν, ἀλλά Θεοῦ τοῦ καταβάντος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ." Ὁ δέ αὐτός πάλιν ἀβέλτερος, " Ἐν τῷ ἐπιγεγραμμένῳ· Αὐτήν ἐπιφάνειαν τήν ἔνσαρκον τοῦ Θεοῦ· Εἷς γάρ ὁ Χριστός θεϊκῷ θελήματι μόνῳ κινούμενος, καθό καί μίαν οἴδαμεν αὐτοῦ τήν ἐνέργειαν, ἐν διαφόροις θαύμασι καί παθήμασι τῆς μιᾶς αὐτοῦ φύσεως προϊοῦσαν. Θεός γάρ ἔνσαρκός ἐστι, καί πιστεύεται· καί μετά βραχέα." Καί τό· Πάτερ, εἰ δυνατόν, ἀπελθέτω τό ποτήριον τοῦτο ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ· πλήν μή τό ἐμόν, ἀλλά τό σόν θέλημα γενέσθω, οὐκ ἄλλου καί ἄλλου θελήματος ἔμφασιν ἔχει, μή συμβαινόντων ἀλλήλοις, ἀλλ᾿ ἑνός καί τοῦ αὐτοῦ· θεϊκῶς μέν ἐνεργουμένου· οἰκονομικῶς δέ παραιτουμένου τον θάνατον· ἐπεί Θεός ἦν σαρκοφόρος ὁ τοῦτο λέγων· μηδεμίαν ἐν τῷ θέλειν ἔχων διαφοράν." Ὁ δέ ἐκείνου τῆς ἀσεβείας μαθητής καί διάδοχος, καί φερωνύμως τῷ τῆς ἀληθείας λόγῳ πολέμιος, Πολέμων ὁ αἱρετικός, ἐν τῷ πρός τούς ἁγίου Πατέρας Ἀντιῤῥητικῷ, τάδε δυστρόφως φησίν· " Ὁ Λόγος γάρ (172) Θεός ἦν ὁ Χριστός, καί τελειότητι σαρκός ἑνωθείς καί γενόμενος ἄνθρωπος οὐ τόν τρεπτόν νοῦν ἑαυτῷ καταμίξας, θελήματι φυσικῷ ἐπί τἀναντία κινούμενον, ἑαυτῷ δέ μᾶλλον γενόμενος νοῦς, ἀτρέπτῳ θελήματι θεϊκῷ πάντα πεποιήκεν. Ἀλλ᾿ οὐ τό μέν θεῖον, τό δέ, θεωθέν, κατά τόν Καππαδόκην