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of myriads; for the principle of virtue does not know the sin of the flesh as of the left hand; but the principle of knowledge does not recognize the evil of the soul as of the right hand.

(14Γ_356> 24. God is the cause of virtues; and knowledge of Him according to activity is the alteration in disposition towards the spirit of one who has known God in truth.

25. The natural principle, he says, is by nature suited to lead up to the intellect through the virtues the one who is concerned with practice; and the intellect leads to wisdom through contemplation the one who desires knowledge; but irrational passion persuades the one who neglects the commandments to be dragged down to sensation; the end of which is for the intellect to be nailed to pleasure.

26. He calls unbelief the denial of the commandments; and faith, assent to them, and darkness, the ignorance of the good, and light, the full knowledge of it. And he has called Christ their essence and hypostasis; and the devil, the worst disposition that generates all evils.

27. He calls virtue a most dispassionate and stable disposition concerning the good; on either side of which stands nothing, since it bears the character of God, to whom there is nothing opposite.

28. If the Logos has determined, as is natural, the genesis of each of the beings; none of the beings has naturally either overstepped or fallen short of itself. Therefore the limit of beings is the full knowledge of the cause according to desire; and the measure is the possible imitation of the cause according to activity by the beings.

29. To be carried beyond the limit and the measure, he says, of the desire of those who are moved, makes the course fruitless, since they do not arrive at God, in whom the motion of all according to desire comes to a standstill, receiving as a corresponding end the enjoyment of God.

30. Beyond the limit and the measure; and clearly, contrary to the limit and the measure.

31. Clearly by the word. 32. That he leaves behind both the principles of incorporeal beings and those of corporeal beings, the

intellect that has run up to God in ecstasy (14Γ_358>. For it is not natural for anything after God to be contemplated at the same time with God.

33. How Jonah can be taken typologically also in reference to the Jewish people. 34. How Jonah, when interpreted, typologically confutes the Jewish people beforehand. 35. That the Lord conquered the tyrant's power more by the weakness of the flesh

putting it forward, than the devil did Adam by promising the dignity of divinity. 36. The Lord is a worm because of His flesh that was not from seed; and a sun, both because of the

setting of His burial, in which the Logos was under the earth as a man, and because He is by nature essentially light and God.

37. That the scorching wind signifies not only the temptations, but also the abandonment by God, which takes away from the Jews the provision of divine gifts.

38. It is characteristic of pride, he says, to deny that God is the begetter of virtue and of nature; and of vainglory, to divide nature with respect to its substance; of which arrogance is naturally the offspring, being a composite disposition of evil, having a voluntary denial of God, and an ignorance of the equality according to nature.

39. The kinship of the soul through the spirit dissolves the relation of the will to the flesh; but binds it to God, having been nailed fast according to longing.

40. He calls the legal symbols night, under which the law operates; in which it is not possible to find enlightenment of the soul if they are not understood spiritually.

41. That because of the great mystery of the divine economy, which is measured by no principle, the Church of the nations, he says, was called a great city to God.

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μυριάδων· ὁ γάρ τῆς ἀρετῆς λόγος, τήν σαρκός ὡς ἀριστερᾶς οὐκ οἶδεν ἁμαρτίαν· ὁ δέ τῆς γνώσεως λόγος, τήν ψυχῆς ὡς δεξιάν οὐ γινώσκει κακίαν.

(14Γ_356> 24. Αἰτία τῶν ἀρετῶν ἐστιν ὁ Θεός· τούτου δέ κατ᾿ ἐνέργειαν γνῶσίς ἐστιν, ἡ τοῦ κατ᾿ ἀλήθειαν ἐπεγνωκότος τόν Θεόν πρός τό πνεῦμα κατά τήν ἕξιν ἀλλοίωσις.

25. Ὁ κατά φύσιν λόγος, φησί, διά μέσων τῶν ἀρετῶν πρός τόν νοῦν ἀνάγειν πέφυκε τόν ἐπιμελούμενον πράξεως· ὁ δέ νοῦς, πρός τήν σοφίαν εἰσάγει διά θεωρίας τόν ἐφιέμενον γνώσεως· τό δέ παράλογον πάθος, πρός τήν αἴσθησιν πείθει κατασύρεσθαι τόν ἀμελοῦντα τῶν ἐντολῶν· ἧς τέλος ἐστί, τό πρός τήν ἡδονήν καθηλωθῆναι τόν νοῦν.

26. Ἀπιστίαν λέγει τήν ἄρνησιν τῶν ἐντολῶν· πίστιν δέ, τήν αὐτῶν συγκατάθεσιν, τό δέ σκότος, τοῦ καλοῦ τήν ἄγνοιαν, τό δέ φῶς, τήν τούτου ἐπίγνωσιν. Χριστόν δέ κέκληκεν, τήν οὐσίαν αὐτῶν καί τήν ὑπόστασιν· τόν διάβολον δέ, τήν πάντων γεννητικήν τῶν κακῶν χειρίστην ἕξιν.

27. Ἀρετήν λέγει, ἀπαθεστάτην καί παγίαν περί τό καλόν ἕξιν· ἧς ἐφ᾿ ἑκάτερα καθέστηκεν οὐδέν, Θεοῦ φερούσης χαρακτῆρα, ᾧ οὐδέν ἐστιν ἐναντίον.

28. Εἰ Λόγος διώρισεν, ὡς πέφυκεν, ἑκάστου τῶν ὄντων τήν γένεσιν· οὐδέν τῶν ὄντων ἑαυτοῦ φυσικῶς ἤ ὑπερβέβηκεν, ἤ ὑποβέβηκεν. Οὐκοῦν ὄρος μέν τῶν ὄντων ἐστίν, ἡ κατ᾿ ἔφεσιν τῆς αἰτίας ἐπίγνωσις· μέτρον δέ, ἡ ἐφικτή τοῖς οὖσι κατ᾿ ἐνέργειαν τῆς αἰτίας ἐκμίμησις.

29. Τό ὑπέρ τόν ὄρον φέρεσθαι, καί τό μέτρον, φησί, τῶν κινουμένων τήν ἔφεσιν, ἀνόνητον ποιεῖ τόν δρόμον, μή καταντώντων εἰς Θεόν, ἐν ᾧ ἡ κατ᾿ ἔφεσιν πάντων ἵσταται κίνησις, ἀνθυπόστατον δεχομένη τέλος Θεοῦ τήν ἀπόλαυσιν.

30. Τό ὑπέρ τόν ὄρον καί τό μέτρον· καί παρά τόν ὄρον καί τό μέτρον δηλονότι.

31. Τῷ λόγῳ δηλονότι. 32. Ὅτι καί τούς τῶν ἀσωμάτων καί τούς τῶν σωμάτων ἀφίησι λόγους, ὁ

πρός τόν Θεόν ἀναδραμών κατ᾿ ἔκστασιν (14Γ_358> νοῦς. Οὐ γάρ πέφυκέ τι Θεῷ τῶν μετά Θεόν ἅμα συγκατοπτεύεσθαι.

33. Πῶς καί εἰς τόν Ἰουδαϊκόν λαόν δύναται ληφθῆναι τυπικῶς Ἰωνᾶς. 34. Πῶς ἑρμηνευόμενος Ἰωνᾶς προδιελέγχει τυπικῶς τόν Ἰουδαϊκόν λαόν. 35. Ὅτι νενίκηκεν μᾶλλον ὁ Κύριος τήν τυράννου δύναμιν σαρκός ἀσθένειαν

προβαλλόμενος, ἥπερ τόν Ἀδάμ ὁ διάβολος ἀξίαν θεότητος ὑποσχόμενος. 36. Σκώληξ ἐστίν ὁ Κύριος διά τήν ἄσπορον σάρκα· ἥλιος δέ, καί ὡς διά τήν

δύσιν τῆς ταφῆς, καθ᾿ ἥν ὑπό γῆν γέγονε ὡς ἄνθρωπος ὁ Λόγος, καί ὡς φύσει κατ᾿ οὐσίαν φῶς ὑπάρχων καί Θεός.

37. Ὅτι τό πνεῦμα τοῦ καύσωνος, οὐ μόνον τούς πειρασμούς, ἀλλά καί τήν ἐγκατάλειψιν τοῦ Θεοῦ, τήν ἀφαιρουμένην τῶν Ἰουδαίων τήν τῶν θείων χαρισμάτων χορηγίαν δηλοῖ.

38. Ὑπερηφανίας ἴδιόν φησι, τό ἀρνεῖσθαι τόν Θεόν ἀρετῆς εἶναι γενέτην καί φύσεως· κενοδοξίας δέ, τό μερίζειν τήν φύσιν πρός τήν ὕφεσιν· ὧν ὁ τῦφος εἶναι γέννημα πέφυκεν, ἕξις κακίας ὑπάρχων σύνθετος, Θεοῦ μέν ἄρνησιν ἑκούσιον ἔχουσα, καί τῆς κατά τήν φύσιν ἰσοτιμίας ἄγνοιαν.

39. Ἡ διά πνεύματος κατά ψυχήν ἀγχιστεία, σαρκός μέν λύει τήν σχέσιν τῆς προαιρέσεως· Θεῷ δέ προσδεσμεῖ κατά πόθον προσηλωθεῖσαν.

40. Νύκτα φησί, τά νομικά σύμβολα, ὑφ᾿ ἅ ὁ νόμος τελεῖ· ἐν οἷς οὐκ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν ψυχῆς φωτισμόν μή νοουμένοις πνευματικῶς.

41. Ὅτι διά τό μέγα, καί μηδενί λόγῳ μετρούμενον τῆς θείας οἰκονομίας μυστήριον, ἡ τῶν ἐθνῶν Ἐκκλησία, φησί, πόλις μεγάλη τῷ Θεῷ προσηγορεύθη.