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Natural will is the simple and unchanging impulse and desire for things that are by nature constitutive. Gnomic will, however, is the qualitative and various movement and appetite for things that are gathered according to pleasure.

From the same, from the epistle to Marinus the presbyter, What is will, and what is

choice? They say will is natural, that is, volition; Look back likewise in the

same epistle, concerning counsel and judgment and prudence and opinion and power. VARIOUS DEFINITIONS OF OUR HOLY AND GOD-BEARING FATHERS ... Of our holy and God-bearing Fathers, concerning the two energies of our

Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ. Of Saint Justin the philosopher, and finally martyr, from the discourse to Euphrasius

the sophist, concerning Providence and Faith, the beginning of which is: "The Word is immaculate.” (15Α_378> If God has the will concurrent with his nature, just as he also has the

energy; for God is always volitional and energetic by nature; nor will volitional things be of the same natural will and energy as his; since they would also certainly be of the same nature. But according to energy and nature, God knows no circumscription.

From the same, from the same discourse. The energy of every essence is the quality proper to it. Natural and

constitutive energy is the defining difference of the nature of the thing signified; without which, nothing at all has in any way, the distinguishing mark of how it is.

Natural energy is the essential and constitutive quality of every essence; that which is deprived of it, is also deprived of all essence.

Natural energy is an essential power not allowing even one alteration in essence from one thing to another.

(15Α_380> Natural energy is the power that preserves unmingled the essential distinction of all things from all things.

Of Saint Alexander, from the epistle to Aeglon, bishop of Cynopolis, against

the Arians. Natural energy is the innate movement of every nature. Energy is

natural, the essential and gnostic principle of every nature. Natural energy is the declarative power of every essence.

Of Gregory of Nyssa. The energy of a rational soul is the movement of the intellect and 0281 thought. Energy

is an essential movement characteristic of the nature to which it properly belongs, through which it is known to differ essentially from others. Energy is an active movement. And that which moves of itself is called active. For we say that energy is the natural power and movement of each essence, without which nature neither exists nor is known. For of intellectual beings, it is intellection; of sentient beings, sensation, according to which, these also

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Θέλημά ἐστι φυσικόν, ἡ ἁπλῶς καί ὡσαύτως ἔχουσα τῶν κατά φύσιν συστατικῶν ὁρμή τε καί ἔφεσις. Θέλημα δέ γνωμικόν, ἡ τῶν καθ᾿ ἡδονήν συναγερτικῶν ποιά καί διάφορος κίνησίς τε καί ὄρεξις.

Τοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἐκ τῆς πρός Μαρῖνον πρεσβύτερον ἐπιστολῆς, Τί θέλησις, καί τί

προαίρεσις; Θέλημά φασιν εἶναι φυσικόν, ἤγουν θέλησιν· Ζήτει ὄπισθεν ὁμοίως εἰς τήν

αὐτήν ἐπιστολήν, περί βουλῆς καί γνώμης καί φρονήσεως καί δόξης καί ἐξουσίας. ΟΡΟΙ ∆ΙΑΦΟΡΟΙ ΤΩΝ ΑΓΙΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΘΕΟΦΟΡΩΝ ΠΑΤΕΡΩΝ ΗΜΩΝ ... Τῶν ἁγίων καί θεοφόρων Πατέρων ἡμῶν, περί τῶν δύο ἐνεργειῶν τοῦ

Κυρίου καί Θεοῦ καί Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. Τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰουστίνου φιλοσόφου, καί τέλος μάρτυρος, ἐκ τοῦ πρός Εὐφράσιον

σοφιστήν, περί Προνοίας καί Πίστεως λόγου, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· "Ἄχραντος ὁ Λόγος». (15Α_378> Εἰ σύνδρομον ἔχει Θεός τῇ φύσει τήν θέλησιν, ὥσπερ και τήν

ἐνέργειαν· ἀεί γάρ φύσει θελητικός καί ἐνεργητικός ὑπάρχει ὁ Θεός· οὐδέ τῶν θελητικῶν τῆς αὐτῆς αὐτῷ φυσικῆς ἔσται θελήσεως καί ἐνεργείας· ἐπεί καί φύσεως ἔσται πάντως τῆς αὐτῆς. Κατ᾿ ἐνέργειαν δέ καί φύσιν οὐκ οἶδεν ὁ Θεός περιγραφήν.

Τοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ λόγου. Ἐνέργεια πάσης οὐσίας ἐστίν, ἡ προσφυής αὐτῇ ποιότης. Ἐνέργεια φυσική τε

καί συστατική ἐστιν, ἡ ὁριστική διαφορά τῆς τοῦ δηλουμένου πράγματος φύσεως· ἧς χωρίς, κατ᾿ οὐδέν οὐδέν παντελῶς ἔχει, τήν τοῦ πῶς εἶναι διάγνωσιν.

Ἐνέργεια φυσική ἐστιν, ἡ οὐσιώδης καί συστατική πάσης οὐσίας ποιότης· ἧς τό ἐστερημένον, καί πάσης οὐσίας ἐστέρηται.

Ἐνέργεια φυσική ἐστι, δύναμις οὐσιώδης μή δέ μίαν ἑτέρου πρός ἕτερον ἐπιδέχεσθαι συγχωροῦσα κατά τήν οὐσίαν ἀλλοίωσιν.

(15Α_380> Ἐνέργεια φυσική ἐστιν ἡ ἀμιγῆ τήν οὐσιώδη πάντων πρός ἅπαντα διάκρισιν σώζουσα δύναμις.

Τοῦ ἁγίου Ἀλεξάνδρου, ἐκ τῆς πρός Αἴγλωνα ἐπίσκοπον Κυνοπόλεως κατά

Ἀρειανῶν ἐπιστολῆς. Ἐνέργεια φυσική ἐστιν, ἡ πάσης φύσεως ἔμφυτος κίνησις. Ἐνέργεια ἐστι

φυσική, ὁ πάσης φύσεως οὐσιώδης καί γνωστικός λόγος. Ἐνέργειά ἐστι φυσική, ἡ δηλωτική ἡ πάσης οὐσίας δύναμις.

Γρηγορίου Νύσσης. Ἐνέργεια λογικῆς ψυχῆς, ἐστί νοῦ κίνησις καί 0281 διάνοια. Ἐνέργειά

ἐστι κίνησις οὐσιώδης χαρακτηριστική τῆς φύσεως, ἧς ἰδία καθέστηκε, δι᾿ ἧς γινώσκεται τῶν ἄλλων οὐσιωδῶς διαφέρουσα. Ἐνέργειά ἐστι κίνησις δραστική. ∆ραστικόν δέ λέγεται, τό ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ κινούμενον. Ἐνέργειαν γάρ ἡμεῖς εἶναι φαμεν, τήν φυσικήν ἑκάστης οὐσίας δύναμίν τε καί κίνησιν, ἧς χωρίς οὔτε ἔστιν, οὔτε γινώσκεται φύσις. Νοερῶν γάρ ἐστι, νόησις· αἰσθητικῶν, αἴσθησις, καθ᾿ ἥν, αὗταί τε