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of the living one and abiding for ever and ever. So, the judgment will be thus, as I have said, while the commandment, alas, also comes forth to meet us, convicting the one who is faithless or faithful, obedient or disobedient to the words of the Master, having been diligent or negligent, and thus the unjust will be separated from the just, the disobedient from those who in every way obeyed Christ, those who love the world now from those who love God, and the merciless from the merciful, and the uncompassionate from the compassionate together, and all will stand naked of wealth and honor and power, which they enjoyed in the world, and they will, alas, condemn themselves. Having become self-condemned by their works (263) they will hear: Depart, small and great, who did not obey me, the philanthropic Master! From this just condemnation, O Master, may we be delivered, and may we obtain the portion of your sheep, O Word, freely, as we have no hope of salvation from works, who are condemned now and forever.

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That the glorious of the earth and those esteemed for their wealth are deluded by the shadow of things seen, while those who have despised present things come to be in unerring participation of the Divine Spirit. (264)

Seeing me, Master, reviled by the faithful as being a deceiver and one who has been utterly deceived, because I say that I have received the Holy Spirit by your philanthropy and the prayers of my father, have mercy and grant me word, knowledge, wisdom, so that all who oppose me may know that your Divine Spirit speaks within me. Grant me to speak, as you have spoken, grant me also, as you have promised, words which none of them will be able to contradict or withstand, O Savior, for you are the giver of all good things. I, O Christ, even if they say that I, your servant, am deceived, will never be persuaded while I see you, my God, and behold your pure and divine face and receive from it your divine illuminations, illuminating the intelligible eyes of my spirit. But do not allow, O God, all who now believe in you to be deceived by the destructive error of not believing that you enlighten everyone even now

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ζῶντος καί διαμένοντος εἰς αἰῶνας αἰώνων. Λοιπόν, ἡ κρίσις ἔσεται οὕτως, καθώς καί εἶπον, ὁμοῦ τε καί τῆς ἐντολῆς, οἴμοι, προσυπαντώσης, ἐλγχούσης τόν ἄπιστον ἤ πιστόν πάντως ὄντα, πειθήνιον ἤ ἀπειθῆ τοῖς λόγοις τοῦ ∆εσπότου, γενόμενον ἐπιμελῶς ἤ καί ἀμεληθέντα, καί οὕτως χωρισθήσονται οἱ ἄδικοι δικαίων, οἱ ἀπειθεῖς τῶν τῷ Χριστῷ πάντως ὑπακουσάντων, τῶν φιλοθέων οἱ νῦν ἀγαπῶντες τόν κόσμον καί τῶν εὐσπλάγχνων ἄσπαγχνοι καί τῶν ἐλεημόνων ἀνελεήμονες ὁμοῦ, καί στήσονται οἱ πάντες γυμνοί καί πλούτου καί τιμῆς καί ἀρχῆς, ἧς ἐν κόσμῳ ἀπήλαυσαν, καί ἑαυτούς, οἴμοι, κατακρινοῦσιν. Αὐτικατάκριτοι αὐτῶν γενόμενοι τοῖς ἔργοις (263) ἀκούσονται δ᾿˙ Ἀπέλθετε, μικροί τε καί μεγάλοι, μή πειθαρχήσαντες ἐμοί, ∆εσπότῃ φιλανθρώπῳ! Ἧς, ∆έσποτα, ῥυσθείημεν δικαίας καταδίκης καί τῆς μερίδος τύχοιμεν τῶν προβάτων σου, Λόγε, δωρεάν, ὡς μή ἔχοντες ἐλπίδα σωτηρίας. ἐξ ἔργων, οἱ κατάκριτοι νῦν καί εἰς τούς αἰῶνας.

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Ὅτι οἱ ἔνδοξοι τῆς γῆς καί σοβαροί τῷ πλούτῳ περί τήν σκιάν τῶν ὁρωμένων πλανῶνται, οἱ δέ γε τῶν παρόντων καταφρονήσαντες ἐν ἀπλανεῖ μεθέξει τοῦ Θείου γίνονται Πνεύματος. (264)

Ὑπό πιστῶν με, ∆έσποτα, λοιδορούμενον βλέπων ὡς ὑπάρχοντα πλάνον τε καί προπεπλανημένον, ὅτι τό Πνεῦμα λέγοιμι, τῇ σῇ φιλανθρωπίᾳ καί τοῦ πατρός μου ταῖς εὐχαῖς, τό Ἅγιον λαβεῖν με, ἐλέησον καί χάρισαι λόγον, γνῶσιν σοφίαν, ἵνα οἱ πάντες γνώσωνται οἱ ἀντικείμενοί μοι, ὅτι τό σόν ἐντός ἐμοῦ λαλεῖ Πνεῦμα τό Θεῖον. ∆ός μοι εἰπεῖν, ὡς εἴρηκας, δός κἀμοί, ὡς ὑπέσχου, οἷς ἀντειπεῖν οὐδείς αὐτῶν ἤ ἀντιστῆναι, Σῶτερ, ἰσχύσει˙ σύ γάρ εἶ δοτήρ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἁπάντων. Ἐγώ, Χριστέ, κἄν λέγωσι πλανᾶσθαί με, σόν δοῦλον, οὐδέποτε πεισθήσομαι βλέπων σε, τόν Θεόν μου, καί καθορῶν τό ἄχραντον πρόσωπόν σου καί θεῖον καί ἐξ αὐτοῦ δεχόμενος ἐλλάμψεις σου τάς θείας, λαμπόμενος ἐν πνεύματι νοερούς ὀφθαλμούς μου. Ἀλλά μή δῴης, ὦ Θεέ, ἅπαντας πλανηθῆναι τούς νῦν εἰς σέ πιστεύοντας πλάνην τήν ὀλεθρίαν τοῦ μή πιστεύειν, ὅτι σύ πάντας καί νῦν φωτίζεις