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How then is mind bound to flesh, how is flesh mingled with the immaterial mind unmixedly, unconfusedly, and unadulteratedly, and mind and soul offer the internal word to the people, and yet remain likewise indivisible, unchangeable, unconfused forever? Knowing these things, therefore, brothers, that the things concerning us are uninterpretable and incomprehensible to all, how do we not shudder to investigate Him who made us such from non-being, or to conceive or to speak the things that are beyond reason, beyond our own mind? Therefore, being creatures, fear the Creator and investigate His commandments only, (262) and hasten to keep these with all your strength, if you wish to become inheritors of life also. But if you despise His commands and overlook His will, as He said, and disobey Him in any one word, not glory, not rank, not wealth from the world, but not even the foolish knowledge of external studies, not syntax, not composition of eloquent words, nor anything else of earthly affairs or possessions will provide any benefit whatsoever then, when my God will judge all things and all people. But the word of the Master that was overlooked by us will stand before the face of each one then and will condemn each one who did not keep it. For it is not an idle word, but a living word of the living God who abides for ages of ages. Therefore, the judgment will be thus, as I have also said, with the commandment, alas, also meeting them, convicting the one who is altogether unbelieving or believing, obedient or disobedient to the words of the Master, having been diligent or also negligent, and thus the unjust will be separated from the just, the disobedient from those who in every way obeyed Christ, those who now love the world from the lovers of God, and the heartless from the compassionate, and the unmerciful from the merciful together, and all will stand naked of both wealth and honor and authority, which they enjoyed in the world, and, alas, they will condemn themselves. Becoming self-condemned by their works, (263) they will hear: Depart, both small and great,

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Πῶς οὖν δεσμεῖται νοῦς σαρκί, πῶς σάρξ δέ τῷ ἀΰλῳ νοΐ συνανακέκραται ἀμίκτως, ἀσυγχύτως, ἀφύρτως τε νοῦς καί ψυχή προσφέρουσι τόν λόγον τόν ἐνδιάθετον λαῷ, καί μένουσιν ὡσαύτως ἄτμητα, ἀναλλοίωτα, ἀσύγχυτα εἰς ἅπαν; Ταῦτ᾿ οὖν εἰδότες, ἀδελφοί, ἀνερμήνευτα εἶναι καί πᾶσιν ἀκατάληπτα τά καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς ὑπάρχειν πῶς τόν ἡμᾶς ποιήσαντα τοιούτους ἐκ μή ὄντων ἐξερευνᾶν οὐ φρίττομεν ἤ ἐννοεῖν ἤ λέγειν τά ὑπέρ λόγον, ὑπέρ νοῦν τόν ἡμέτερον ὄντα; Κτίσματα ὄντες δέ λοιπόν φοβήθητε τόν κτίστην καί τάς ἐκείνου ἐντολάς μόνας ἐξερευνᾶτε, (262) τηρεῖν δέ ταύτας σπεύσατε ὑμῶν πάσῃ δυνάμει, εἰ βούλοισθε καί τῆς ζωῆς κληρονόμοι γενέσθαι. Εἰ δέ καταφρονήσετε τῶν αὐτοῦ προσταγμάτων καί τά θελήματα αὐτοῦ παρίδετε, ὡς εἶπε, καί ἀπειθήσετε αὐτῷ ἐν ἑνί πάντως λόγῳ, οὐ δόξα, οὐκ ἀξίωμα, οὐ πλοῦτος ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου, ἀλλ᾿ οὐδ᾿ ἡ γνῶσις ἡ μωρά τῶν ἔξω μαθημάτων, οὐ σύνταξις, οὐ σύνθεσις καλλιεπείας λόγων, οὐδ᾿ ἄλλο τι τῶν ἐπί γῆς πραγμάτων ἤ χρημάτων ὠφέλειαν τήν οἱανοῦν παρέξουσί γε τότε, ὅτε κρινεῖ τά σύμπαντα καί πάντας ὁ Θεός μου. Ἀλλ᾿ ὁ παροφθείς λόγος παρ᾿ ἡμῶν τοῦ ∆εσπότου στήσεται κατά πρόσωπον ἑνός ἑκάστου τότε καί ἕκαστον κατακρινεῖ μή φυλάξαντα τοῦτον. Οὐκ ἔστι λόγος γάρ ἀργός, ἀλλά ζῶν Θεοῦ λόγος 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,