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Of Basil. We must neither entirely shun the art, nor is it logical to place all our hopes in it; but just as we use the art of farming, but ask God for the fruits; and we entrust the rudder to the helmsman, but we pray to God to be saved from the sea, so also when we bring in the physician, we do not abandon our hope in God.

An unscientific physician, when visiting the sick, instead of restoring them to health, takes away even the small remnant of their strength.

The Theologian. I consider our medicine far more arduous than that which concerns the body, and for this reason more honorable; and because they perceive little of what lies deep within, their practice being mostly concerned with what is apparent; but for us, all our healing and effort is about the hidden man of the heart.

He who insatiably craves after passions, if he hides his evils, Will never escape a grievous decay. (15E_370> Chrysostom. I think that the ancient physicians not simply nor

unreasonably legislated that the display of the various instruments be made public; but so that they might make the healthy more cautious, by showing them in advance how many things they will need if they live disorderly.

Gregory of Nyssa. Insofar as the soul is better than the body, by so much more honorable than those who heal bodies is he who cures souls.

Of Didymus. We call a perfect physician, not the one who heals everyone, but the one who omits nothing that contributes to benefit and healing.

Trophilus. Trophilus the physician, when asked by someone, "Who would be a perfect physician?" said, "He who is able to distinguish the possible from the impossible."

Of Nicocles. When a certain bad physician said that he had great power, Nicocles said, "How can you not say so, you who having killed so many have remained unaccountable?"

The same said physicians were fortunate, because their 949 successes the sun sees; but their failures the earth covers.

Stratonicus. Stratonicus, flattering a physician, said, "I praise your experience, because you do not let the sick rot; you relieve them of life more quickly."

Demonax. Greater thanks is owed to the Asclepiads who check an approaching disease than to those who cure one that has befallen, for not to suffer is preferable to being delivered from evil.

DISCOURSE 51. Concerning Faith. (15Ε_372> Matthew 17. Amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of

mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Ephesians 2. By grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God, not from works, so that no one may boast.

Hebrews 11. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Proverbs 12. A righteous man will announce a demonstrated faith. Sirach 11. Trust in the Lord, and abide in your labor; for it is an easy thing in

the sight of the Lord suddenly to make a poor man rich.

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Βασιλείου. Οὔτε φευκτέον πάντη τήν τέχνην, οὔτε ἐπ᾿ αὐτῇ πάσας τάς ἐλπίδας ἔχειν ἀκόλουθον· ἀλλ᾿ ὡς κεχρήμεθα μέν τῇ γεωργικῇ· αἰτούμεθα δέ παρά τῷ Θεῷ τούς καρπούς· καί τῷ κυβερνήτῃ μέν τό πηδάλιον ἐπιτρέπομεν, τῷ Θεῷ δέ προσευχόμεθα ἐκ τοῦ πελάγους ἀποσωθῆναι, οὕτω καί τόν ἰατρόν εἰσάγοντες, τῆς πρός Θεόν ἐλπίδος οὐκ ἀφιστάμεθα.

Ἀνεπιστήμων ἰατρός πρός κάμνοντας εἰσιών, ἀντί τοῦ εἰς ὑγείαν αὐτούς ἐπαναγαγεῖν, καί τό μικρόν λείψανον τῆς δυνάμεως ἀφαιρεῖται.

Θεολόγ. Τήν καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς ἰατρικήν τῆς περί τά σώματα ἐργωδεστέραν τίθεμαι μακρῷ, καί διά τοῦτο τιμιωτέραν· καί ὅτι ἐκείνους ὀλίγα τῶν ἐν τῷ βάθει κατοπτεύουσι, περί τό φαινόμενον ᾗ πλεῖον τῆς πραγματείας· ἡμῖν δέ περί τόν κρυπτόν τῆς καρδίας ἄνθρωπον ἡ πᾶσα θεραπεία τε καί σπουδή.

Χρηΐζων παθέεσσ' ἀκορέστως, ἤν κακά κεύθῃ, Οὔποτε σηπεδόνα φεύξεται ἀργαλέην. (15Ε_370> Χρυσοστ. Οἶμαι τούς ἀρχαίους τῶν ἰατρῶν οὐχ ἀπλῶς οὐδέ

ἀλόγως νομοθετῆσαι δημοσιεύεσθαι τήν τῶν ποικίλων ἐργαλείων ἐπίδειξιν· ἀλλ᾿ ἵνα τούς ὑγιαίνοντας ἀσφαλίζωνται, προδεικνύντες αὐτοῖς ὁπόσων ἀτακτοῦντες δεήσονται.

Γρηγ. Νύσσης. Ὅσον κρεῖσσον ψυχή τοῦ σώματος, τοσούτῳ τιμιώτερον τῶν τά σώματα θεραπευόντων, ὁ τάς ψυχάς ἐξιώμενος.

∆ιδύμου. Τέλειον ἰατρόν λέγομεν, οὐ τόν θεραπεύοντα πάντας, ἀλλά τόν μηδέν τῶν εἰς ὠφέλειαν ἡκόντων καί θεραπείαν παραλείποντα.

Τρόφιλος. Τρόφιλος ἰατρός ἐρωτηθείς ὑπό τινος, Τίς ἄν γένοιτο τέλειος ἰατρός, Ὁ τά δυνατά, ἔφη, καί τά μή δυνατά δυνάμενος διαγινώσκειν.

Νικοκλέους. Νικοκλῆς κακοῦ τινος ἰατροῦ λέγοντος, ὅτι μεγάλην ἔχει δύναμιν, ἔφη, Πῶς γάρ οὐ μέλλεις λέγειν, ὅς τοσούτου ἀνῃρηκώς ἀνεύθυνος γέγονας;

Ὁ αὐτός τούς ἰατρούς εὐτυχεῖς ἔλεγεν, ὅτι τάς 949 μέν ἐπιτυχίας αὐτῶν ὁ ἥλιος ὁρᾷ· τάς δέ ἀποτυχίας ἡ γῆ καλύπτει.

Στρατονικ. Στρατόνικος ἰατρόν κολακεύων, ἔλεγεν, Ἐπαινῶ σου τήν ἐμπειρίαν, ὅτι οὐκ ἐᾷς τούς ἀῤῥώστους κατασαπῆναι· τάχιον αὐτούς τοῦ ζῇν ἀπαλλάσων.

∆ημονάκτ. Τοῖς Ἀσκληπιάδαις μείζων ὀφείλεται χάρις ἐπερχομένην ἀναστέλλουσι· νόσον, ἤ παραπεσοῦσαν ἰασαμένοις, τοῦ γάρ ἀπηλλάχθαι κακοῦ τό μή πάσχειν εἱρετώτερον.

ΛΟΓΟΣ ΝΑ´. Περί πίστεως. (15Ε_372> Ματθ. ιζ´. Ἀμήν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐάν ἔχετε πίστιν ὡς κόκκον

σινάπεως, ἐρεῖτε τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ, Μετάβηθι ἐντεῦθεν ἐκεῖ, καί μεταβήσεται· καί οὐδέν ἀδυνατήσει ὑμῖν.

Ἐφ. β´. Χάριτί ἐστε σεσωσμένοι διά τῆς πίστεως, καί τοῦτο οὐκ ἐξ ὑμῶν· Θεοῦ τό δῶρον, οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων, ἵνα μή τις καυχήσηται.

Ἑβρ. ια´. Πίστις ἐστίν ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις, πραγμάτων ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων.

Παροιμ. ιβ΄. Ἐπιδεικνυμένην πίστιν ἀναγγελεῖ δίκαιος. Σιράχ ια´. Πίστευε τῷ Κυρίῳ, καί ἔμμενε τῷ πόνῳ σου· ὅτι κοῦφον ἐν

ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου ἐξάπινα πλουτίσαι πένητα.