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and is separated by a hypostatic principle, but also remains within the one who begot him, which must be understood as the paternal bosom, and he passes through the whole world and fills all things wholly apart from the Father and with the Father he exists wholly himself, and he passes through entirely by his energies and is perceived to pass over by his illumination. For you have heard of walking among and remaining and turning away the face and seeing, and descending and ascending again, and arriving and departing again and many other things of the divine energy all the divine scriptures proclaim, which the Spirit spoke, (149) the All-Holy, proceeding from the Father ineffably, and was sent through the Son to men; not to the unbelievers nor to the lovers of glory, not to the orators nor to the philosophers, not to those who have learned the writings of the Greeks, not to those ignorant of the inner scriptures, not to those who have practiced a theatrical life, not to those who speak in a polished and rich manner, not to those who have obtained great names, not to those who happen to be loved by the glorious, not to those who have collaborated with those who acted lawlessly, not to those who praise nor those who are praised, not to those who jest nor those who are jested with, but to the poor in spirit and in life, to those pure in heart and body, to those having a simple word and a simpler life and possessing a simpler mind, to those who flee glory as the fire of Gehenna and who hate flatterers from their soul (for the Spirit does not accept flattery, nor does it endure to hear what is not), to those who look only to the glory of the soul and the salvation of all the brethren and not even with a small movement of the heart do they receive a sensation for anything of the world, such as praises or human glory or any other pleasure or passion.

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καί κεχώρισται ἐνυποστάτῳ λόγῳ, ἀλλά καί μένει τοῦ γεννήσαντος ἔνδον, ὅπερ καί κόλπον πατρικόν δεῖ νοῆσαι, καί διέρχεται εἰς τόν σύμπαντα κόσμον καί πάντα πληροῖ τοῦ Πατρός ὅλως δίχα καί σύν τῷ Πατρί ὅλος αὐτός ὑπάρχει, μετέρχεται δέ πάντως ταῖς ἐνεργείαις καί τῇ ἐλλάμψει μεταβαίνειν νοεῖται. Ἐμπεριπατεῖν ἤκουσας γάρ καί μένειν καί ἀποστρέφειν τό πρόσωπον καί βλέπειν, κατέρχεσθαί τε καί ἀνέρχεσθαι πάλιν, παραγίνεσθαί τε καί ἀφίπτασθαι αὖθις καί ἄλλα πολλά τῆς θείας ἐνεργείας αἱ θεῖαι γραφαί πᾶσαι δημηγοροῦσιν, ἅ ἐλάλησεν ἐκπορευθέν τό Πνεῦμα, (149) τό Πανάγιον, ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός ἀφράστως, καί ἀπεστάλη δι᾿ Υἱοῦ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις˙ οὐ τοῖς ἀπίστοις οὐδέ τοῖς φιλοδόξοις, οὐ τοῖς ῥήτορσιν οὐδέ τοῖς φιλοσόφοις, οὐ τοῖς μαθοῦσι συγγραφάς τῶν Ἑλλήνων, οὐ τοῖς τά γραφάς ἀγνοοῦσι τάς ἔσω, οὐ τοῖς ἐξασκήσασι σκηνικόν βίον, οὐ τοῖς λαλοῦσι τορνευτῶς καί πλουσίως, οὐ τοῖς λαχοῦσι μεγάλων ὀνομάτων, οὐ τοῖς τυχοῦσι φιλεῖσθαι παρ᾿ ἐνδόξων, οὐ συμπράξασι τοῖς πράξασιν ἀνόμως, οὐ τοῖς καλοῦσιν οὐδέ τοῖς καλουμένοις, οὐδέ παίζουσιν οὐδέ τοῖς παιζομένοις, ἀλλά τοῖς πτωχοῖς πνεύματι καί τῷ βίῳ, τοῖς τήν καρδίαν καθαροῖς καί τό σῶμα, τοῖς λόγον ἁπλοῦν καί ἁπλούστερον βίον καί ἁπλουστέραν κεκτημένοις τήν γνώμην, τοῖς τήν δόξαν φεύγουσιν ὡς πῦρ γεέννης καί κολακευτάς ἀπό ψυχῆς μισοῦσιν (οὐ γάρ δέχεται τό Πνεῦμα κολακείας, οὐδ᾿ ἀνέχεται ἀκούειν, ὅ μή ἔστι), τοῖς πρός μόνην βλέπουσι ψυχῆς τήν δόξαν καί τῶν ἀδελφῶν τήν σωτηρίαν πάντων καί μηδέ μικρᾷ καρδιακῇ κινήσει αἴσθησιν λαμβάνουσι πρός τι τοῦ κόσμου, ἐπαίνων οἷον ἤ δόξης ἀνθρωπίνης ἤ πάσης ἄλλης ἡδονῆς εἴτε πάθους.