104

Sirach 5. As one who grasps a shadow and pursues the winds, so is one who pays attention to dreams.

(1000) Of Basil. For in large part, the apparitions in sleep are echoes of the day's thoughts.

For the phantasms in sleep are somehow, for the most part, echoes of the day's cares. For whatever our pursuits in life are, such must our dreams be also.

The nights, taking over the cares of the day, deceive the mind with their own phantasms.

To see desired things in a dream brings comfort to those who love. Those enslaved to drunkenness and gluttony choose neither genuine and

sincere sleep, nor are they freed from frightful dreams. (15Ε_454> Of the Theologian. Do not too much follow the games of dreams Nor have a mind easily startled at everything Nor be lifted up by favorable apparitions; These are often an ambush of the enemy. Fools are richer in their dreams, Than those who possess an abyss of riches. Chrysostom. He who pays attention to dreams is in every way unapproved. John Climacus. For the demon often loves to speak to men at night of the future,

not that they might be guarded from suffering it [for they cannot prevail against fate], but that suffering, they might bear it more lightly.

Of Nilus. He who pays attention to dreams is like one who chases his own shadow. Whenever we begin to obey the demons in our sleep, then from that point on also

they mock us when we are awake. Aeschines. To sleep beyond what is proper is more fitting for the dead than for the

living. DISCOURSE 66. On guilelessness and bearing grudges. (15Ε_456> Matthew 18. Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like

children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5. If you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember

that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there, and go first be reconciled to your brother, and then offer your gift.

1 Thessalonians 5. See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always pursue what is just.

Ephesians. Do not let the sun go down on your anger. Galatians 5. If you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not by one another

consumed. 1001 Proverbs 24. If your enemy falls, do not rejoice over him; and in his

stumbling, do not be exalted, for the Lord will see, and it will not please him, and he will turn his anger from him.

Proverbs 12. The ways of those who bear grudges lead to death. Proverbs 21. He who bears a grudge is lawless. Proverbs 14. The guileless one believes every word.

104

Σιράχ ε´. Ὡς ὁ δρασσόμενος σκιᾶς καί διώκων ἀνέμους, οὕτως ὁ προσέχων ἐνυπνίοις.

(1000) Βασιλείου. Ὡς γάρ ἐπί πολύ, τά καθ᾿ ὕπνον φαντάσματα, τῶν μεθημερινῶν ἐννοιῶν εἰσιν ἀπηχήματα.

Πεφύκασι γάρ πως αἱ καθ᾿ ὕπνον φαντασίαι, ὡς τά πολλά, ἀπηχήματα εἶναι τῶν μεθημερινῶν φροντίδων. Ὁποῖα γάρ ἄν ᾖ τά κατά τόν βίον ἡμῶν ἐπιτηδεύματα, τοιαῦτα ἀνάγκη εἶναι καί τά ἐνύπνια.

Αἱ νύκτες τάς μεθημερινάς φροντίδας παραλαβοῦσαι, ἐν ταῖς αὐτῶν φαντασίαις ἐξαπατῶσι τόν νοῦν.

Τό κατ᾿ ὄναρ ἰδεῖν τά ποθούμενα, φέρει τοῖς ἀγαπῶσι παραμυθίαν. Οἱ μέθῃ καί ἀδηφαγίᾳ δεδουλωμένοι, οὔτε ὕπνον αἱροῦνται γνήσιον καί

εἰλικρινῆ, οὔτε ὀνειράτων ἀπαλλάττονται φοβερῶν. (15Ε_454> Θεολόγου. Μή σφόδρ᾿ ἕπεσθαι παιγνίοις ἐνυπνίων Μηδ᾿ εὐπτόητον εἰς ἅπαντ᾿ ἔχειν φρένα Μηδέ πτεροῦ μοι δεξιοῖς φαντάσμασι· Λόχος τάδ᾿ ἐστί πολλάκις τοῦ δυσμενοῦς. Πλουτοῦσι μωροί τοῖς ὀνείρασι πλέον, Ἤ χρημάτων ἄβυσσον οἱ κεκτημένοι. Χρυσοστ. Ὁ τοῖς ὀνείροις προσέχων, εἰς ἅπαν ἀδόκιμος. Ἰων. Κλίμ. Φιλεῖ γάρ τό δαιμόνιον πολλάκις ἀνθρώποις τό μέλλον νύκτωρ

λαλεῖν, οὐχ ἵνα φυλάξωνται μή παθεῖν [οὐ γάρ εἱμαρμένης δύνανται κρατεῖν,] ἀλλ᾿ ἵνα κουφότερον πάσχοντες φέρωσιν.

Νείλου. Ὁ τοῖς ὀνείροις προσέχων, ἔοικε τῷ τήν σκιάν αὐτοῦ καταδιώκοντι. Ὁπόταν ἐν τοῖς ὕπνοις τοῖς δαίμοσι πείθεσθαι ἀρξώμεθα, τότε λοιπόν καί

ἐγρηγορότας ἐμπαίζουσιν. Αἰσχίν. Τό πέρα καθεύδειν τοῦ πρέποντος, τοῖς τεθνηκόσι μᾶλλον ἤπερ τοῖς

ζῶσιν ἁρμόδιον. ΛΟΓΟΣ Ξστ´. Περί ἀκακίας καί μνησικακίας. (15Ε_456> Ματθ. ιη´. Ἀμήν, λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐάν μή στραφῆτε καί γένησθε ὡς τά

παιδία, οὐ μή εἰσέλθητε εἰς τήν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν. Ματθ. ε´. Ἐάν προσενέγκῃς τό δῶρόν σου εἰς τό θυσιαστήριον, κἀκεῖ μνησθῇς

ὅτι ἔχει τι ὁ ἀδελφός σου κατά σοῦ, ἄφες τό δῶρόν σου, καί ὕπαγε πρῶτον διαλλάγηθι τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου, καί τότε προσφέρῃς τό δῶρόν σου.

Α´ Θεσσ. ε´. Ὁρᾶτε μή τις κακόν ἀντί κακοῦ ἀποδῷ τινι, ἀλλά πάντοτε τό δίκαιον διώκετε.

Ἐφ΄. Ὁ ἥλιος μή ἐπιδυέτω ἐπί τῷ παροργισμῷ ὑμῶν. Γαλ. ε´. Εἰ ἀλλήλους δάκνετε καί κατεσθίετε, βλέπετε μή ὑπ' ἀλλήλων

ἀναλωθῆτε. 1001 Παροιμ. κδ´. Ἐάν πέσῃ ὁ ἐχθρός σου, μή ἐπιχαρῇς αὐτῷ· ἐν δέ τῷ

ὑποσκελίσματι αὐτοῦ, μή ἐπαίρου, ὅτι ὄψεται Κύριος, καί οὐκ ἀρέσει αὐτῷ, καί ἀποστρέψει τόν θυμόν αὐτοῦ ἀπ᾿ αύτοῦ.

Παροιμ. ιβ´. Ὁδοί μνησικάκων εἰς θάνατον. Παροιμ. κα´. Ὁ μνησικακῶν, παράνομος. Παροιμ. ιδ´. Ὁ ἄκακος πιστεύει παντί λόγῳ.