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a form of predication of it, being affirmed of that which is constituted through all these things. For all created things, according to essence and generation, are entirely affirmed, being encompassed by the extrinsic principles that are proper to them and about them. With the exception, therefore, of the supreme and apophatic theology of the Logos, according to which He is neither spoken of, nor conceived, nor is He at all anything of the things known along with another, as supra-essential, nor is He participated in by anything in any way whatsoever, the one Logos is many logoi, and the many are one. According to the creative and sustaining procession of the one into beings, which befits His goodness, the one is many; and according to the converting and guiding reference and providence of the many to the one, as to an all-ruling principle or a center which has pre-contained the beginnings of the straight lines from itself and as the unifier of all things, the many are one. Therefore we are and are called a portion of God because the logoi of our being pre-exist in God; but having flowed down from above, we are again spoken of, because we have not moved according to the logos of our creation, which pre-exists in God. And in another way, too, it is easy for one who has been taught to apply himself piously to the logoi of beings to go through the argument concerning this. For if it is not doubted that the one Logos of God is the substance of each virtue—for our Lord Jesus Christ Himself is the substance of all the virtues, as it is written: “Who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,” having these things said of Him absolutely, that is, as being wisdom itself and righteousness itself and holiness itself, and not, as in our case, with a qualification, for example, as a wise man, or a righteous man—every man, clearly, who participates in virtue according to a stable disposition indisputably partakes of God, the substance of the virtues, inasmuch as he has genuinely cultivated by choice the natural (1084) seed of the good and has shown the end to be the same as the beginning, and the beginning the same as the end, or rather, the same thing being beginning and end, being an unadulterated advocate of God, if indeed the beginning and end of every thing is believed to be its purpose, having received the one from there for his being and for the good by nature according to participation, and having, in accordance with it, with zeal completed by judgment and choice the praiseworthy course that leads unerringly to the other, by which he becomes God, receiving from God his being God, as to the natural good according to the image, having added by choice the likeness through the virtues, through the innate ascent and affinity toward his own beginning. And so there is fulfilled in him as well the apostolic saying which states: "For in him we live and move and have our being." For he comes to be in God through attention, not having corrupted the pre-existing logos of his being in God, and he moves in God according to the pre-existing logos of his well-being in God, being actualized through the virtues, and he lives in God according to the pre-existing logos of his ever-being in God. From this point on, indeed, according to the most dispassionate state, being the same with himself and unmoved, and in the age to come, according to the deification that will be given, lovingly cherishing and embracing the aforementioned logoi which pre-exist in God, or rather God, in whom the logoi of good things are fixed; and he is a portion of God, as one who is, on account of the logos of his being in God, and as one who is good, on account of the logos of his ever-being in God, and as God, on account of the logos of his ever-being in God, as one who has honored these and acted according to them, and through them has wholly placed himself in God alone, and has wholly impressed and formed God alone in himself, so that he himself both is by grace and is called God, and God is by condescension and is called man on account of him, and the power of the disposition reciprocated in this is shown, which both deifies man to God through his love of God, and humanizes God to man through His love of man and brings about, according to the good exchange, God as man, on account of man's

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αὐτοῦ κατηγορίας εἶδος καταφασκόμενον τῷ διά πάντων τούτων συνισταμένῳ. Πάντα γάρ τά κτιστά κατ᾿ οὐσίαν τε καί γένεσιν παντάπασι καταφάσεκται τοῖς ἰδίοις καί τοῖς περί αὐτά οὖσι τῶν ἐκτός λόγοις περιεχόμενα. Ὑπεξῃρημένης οὖν τῆς ἄκρας καί ἀποφατικῆς τοῦ λόγου θεολογίας, καθ᾿ ἥν οὔτε λέγεται, οὔτε νοεῖται, οὔτε ἔστι τό σύνολόν τι τῶν ἄλλῳ συνεγνωσμένων, ὡς ὑπερούσιος, οὐδέ ὑπό τινος οὐδαμῶς καθ᾿ ὁτιοῦν μετέχεται, πολλοί λόγοι ὁ εἷς λόγος ἐστί, καί εἷς οἱ πολλοί· κατά μέν τήν ἀγαθοπρεπῆ εἰς τά ὄντα τοῦ ἑνός ποιητικήν τε καί συνεκτικήν πρόοδον πολλοί ὁ εἷς, κατά δέ τήν εἰς τόν ἕνα τῶν πολλῶν ἐπιστρεπτικήν τε καί χειραγωγικήν ἀναφοράν τε καί πρόνοιαν, ὥσπερ εἰς ἀρχήν παντοκρατορικήν ἤ κέντρον τῶν ἐξ αὐτοῦ εὐθειῶν τάς ἀρχάς προειληφός καί ὡς πάντων συναγωγός, εἷς οἱ πολλοί. Μοῖρα οὖν ἐσμεν καί λεγόμεθα Θεοῦ διά τό τούς τοῦ εἶναι ἡμῶν λόγους ἐν τῷ Θεῷ προϋφεστάναι· ρεύσαντες δέ ἄνωθεν πάλιν λεγόμεθα διότι μή καθ᾿ ὅν γεγενήμεθα λόγον τόν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ προόντα κεκινήμεθα. Καί καθ᾿ ἕτερον δέ τρόπον ἐστίν εὐμαρές τῷ εὐσεβῶς ἐπιβάλλειν τοῖς τῶν ὄντων λόγοις δεδιδαγμένῳ τόν περί τούτου λόγον διεξελθεῖν. Εἰ γάρ οὐσία τῆς ἐν ἑκάστῳ ἀρετῆς ὁ εἷς ὑπάρχειν Λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ μή ἀμφιβέβληταιοὐσία γάρ πάντων τῶν ἀρετῶν αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ὡς γέγραπται· Ὅς ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν ἀπό Θεοῦ σοφία, διακαιοσύνη τε καί ἁγιασμός καί ἀπολύτρωσις, ἀπολύτως ταῦτα δηλαδή ἐπ' αὐτοῦ λεγόμενα ἔχων, ὡς αὐτοσοφία καί δικαιοσύνη καί ἁγιότης ὤν, καί οὐχ ὡς ἐφ᾿ ἡμῶν προσδιωρισμένως, οἷον ὡς σοφός ἄνθρωπος, ἤ δίκαιος ἄνθρωπος, πᾶς δηλονότι ἄνθρωπος ἀρετῆς καθ᾿ ἕξιν παγίαν μετέχων ἀναμφηρίστως Θεοῦ μετέχει τῆς οὐσίας τῶν ἀρετῶν, ὡς τήν κατά (1084) φύσιν σποράν τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ γνησίως κατά προαίρεσιν γεωργήσας καί ταυτόν δείξας τῇ ἀρχῇ τό τέλος, και τήν ἀρχήν τῷ τέλει, μᾶλλον δέ ταυτόν ἀρχήν οὖσαν καί τέλος, ὡς ἀνόθευτος Θεοῦ τυγχάνων συνήγορος, εἴπερ παντός πράγματος ἀρχή καί τέλος ὁ ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ σκοπός ὑπάρχειν πεπίστευται, τήν μέν ὡς ἐκεῖθεν εἰληφώς προς τῷ εἶναι καί τό κατά μέθεξιν φύσει ἀγαθόν, τό δέ ὡς κατ᾿ αὐτήν γνώμῃ τε καί προαιρέσει τόν ἐπαινετόν καί πρός αὐτήν ἀπλανῶς ἄγοντα ἐξανύσας δρόμον διά σπουδῆς, καθ᾿ ὅν γίνεται Θεός, ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ τό Θεός εἶναι λαμβάνων, ὡς τῷ κατ᾿ εἰκόνα φύσει καλῷ καί προαιρέσει τήν δι᾿ ἀρετῶν προσθείς ἐξομοίωσιν, διά τῆς ἐμφύτου πρός τήν ἰδίαν ἀρχήν ἀναβάσεώς τε καί οἰκειότητος. Καί πληροῦται λοιπόν καί ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ τό ἀποστολικόν ῥητόν τό φάσκον· Ἐν αὐτῷ γάρ ζῶμεν καί κινούμεθα καί ἐσμέν. Γίνεται γάρ ἐν τῷ Θεῷ διά προσοχῆς, τόν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ προόντα τοῦ εἶναι λόγον μή παραφθείρας, καί κινεῖται ἐν τῷ Θεῷ κατά τόν προόντα ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ εὖ εἶναι λόγον, διά τῶν ἀρετῶν ἐνεργούμενος, καί ζῇ ἐν τῷ Θεῷ κατά τόν προόντα ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ ἀεί εἶναι λόγον. Ἐντεῦθεν μέν ἤδη κατά τήν ἀπαθεστάτην ἕξιν ταυτόν ἑαυτῷ καί ἀκίνητος ὤν, ἐν δέ τῷ μέλλοντι αἰῶνι κατα´τήν δοθησομένην θέωσιν τούς εἰρημένους καί ἐν τῷ Θεῷ πρόντας λόγους, μᾶλλον δέ τόν Θεόν, ἐν ᾧ οἱ λόγοι τῶν καλῶν πεπήγασιν, ἀγαπητικῶς στέργων καί ἀσπαζόμενος· καί ἔστι μοῖρα Θεοῦ, ὡς ὤν, διά τόν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ εἶναι αὐτοῦ λόγον, καί ὡς ἀγαθός, διά τόν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ ἀεί εἶναι αὐτοῦ λόγον, καί ὡς Θεός, διά τόν ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τοῦ ἀεί εἶναι αὐτοῦ λόγον, ὡς τούτους τιμήσας καί κατ᾿ αὐτούς ἐνεργήσας, καί δι᾿ αὐτῶν ἑαυτόν μέν τῷ Θεῷ μόνῳ δι᾿ ὅλου ἐνθέμενος, τόν δέ Θεόν μόνον ἑαυτῷ δι᾿ ὅλου ἐντυπώσας τε καί μορφώσας, ὥστε καί αὐτόν εἶναί τε χάριτι κκακί καλεῖσθαι Θεόν, καί τόν Θεόν εἶναι συγκαταβάσει καί καλεῖσθαι δι᾿ αὐτόν ἄνθρωπον, καί τῆς ἀντιδιδομένης ἐπί τούτῳ διαθέσεως δειχθῆναι τήν δύναμιν, τήν καί τόν ἄνθρωπον τῷ Θεῷ θεοῦσαν διά τό φιλόθεον, καί τόν Θεόν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ διά τό φιλάνθρωπον ἀνθρωπίζουσαν καί ποιοῦσαν κατά τήν καλήν ἀντιστροφήν, τόν μέν Θεόν ἄνθρωπον, διά τήν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου