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the symbols of truth; and that he is a chastiser of the indifference of those who among Israel, of whom the great Elijah became the instructor, make unrestrained use of contrary things and indiscriminately mix the unmixable; and that he brings to mind, as it were, and to perception the folly and hardness of heart of those who are utterly attached to evil.

4. Or action and contemplation, the one as destructive of vice, and completely severing from the world, in their disposition, those led by it through the display of virtues, just as Moses severed Israel from Egypt, and instructing them to be led in obedience to the divine laws of the Spirit; and the other as snatching them away from matter and form, as the fiery chariot did Elijah, and bringing them near and uniting them to God through knowledge, not weighed down by the flesh in any way, on account of the setting aside of its law, nor inflamed by pride in any way over their achievements, on account of the dew of poverty in spirit that is joined to true virtues.

5. Or again, learning that the mysteries concerning marriage and celibacy reside with the Logos, through Moses, who was not hindered by marriage from becoming a lover of the divine glory, and through Elijah, who remained completely pure from marital union, as though the Logos and God proclaims that He mystically makes His own those who direct these things with reason, according to the divinely established laws concerning them.

6. Or being fully convinced through these same figures that the Logos is faithfully Lord of life and death.

(1164) 7. Or also learning through the same figures that all live unto God and that no one at all is dead in His sight, except for the one who has put himself to death by sin, and through a voluntary inclination toward the passions has cut himself off from the Logos.

8. Or again, they were enlightened that, since the Logos is truth, the types of the mysteries both are and exist in reference to Him, and are gathered into Him, as the beginning and end of both the legal and prophetic dispensations.

9. Or that all things after God and that have come to be from God, that is, the nature of beings and time, being in God, are manifested together with Him who is truly manifest, to the extent possible, as cause and creator. Of these, Moses would be a type of time, not only as a teacher of time and of number according to it (for he was the first to number the time of the world's genesis), and as having become an instructor of a temporal worship, but also as not entering corporeally with them into the rest of which he was the guide through the divine good tidings; for such is the nature of time, not arriving or coming with in its movement those whom it is its nature to escort to the divine life of the age to come. For it has Jesus as the successor of all time and of every age; even if the principles of time otherwise abide in God, as is mystically shown by the joint entry of the law given in the wilderness through Moses with those who received the land of possession. For time is the age, when it stands still from movement, and the age is time, when it is measured being borne along by movement, so that the age is, to put it in a definition, time deprived of movement, and time is an age measured by movement. And Elijah is a type of nature, not only as one who kept the principles within himself inviolate, and the intention concerning them, in his thought, free from the change that comes from passion, but also as instructing in judgment, like some natural law, those who use nature contrary to nature. For such too is nature, punishing those who try to corrupt it to the extent that they practice living contrary to nature, by their no longer possessing naturally the whole power of their nature, having already been diminished from the perfection proper to it and for this reason being punished, as

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ἀληθείας τά σύμβολα· τήν δέ ὅτι τῶν τοῖς ἐναντίοις ἀνέδην χρωμένων κατά τόν Ἰσραήλ, οὗ παιδευτήν Ἠλίας ὁ μέγας ἐγένετο, καί μιγνύντων ἀδιακρίτως τά ἄμικτα, τῆς ἀδιαφορίας ἐστί κολαστικός, καί τῶν παντελῶς τῷ κακῷ προστεθειμένων τήν ἄνοιαν καί τήν πώρωσιν εἰς ἔννοιαν ἄγων, ὡς λόγος, καί αἴσθησιν.

∆´. Ἤ πρᾶξιν καί θεωρίαν, τήν μέν ὡς κακίας ἀναιρετικήν, καί κόσμου δι᾿ ἐπιδείξεως ἀρετῶν τούς δι᾿ αὐτῆς ἀγομένους παντελῶς κατά διάθεσιν τέμνουσαν, ὡς Μωϋσῆς τῆς Αἰγύπτου τόν Ἰσραήλ, καί θείοις νόμοις τοῦ Πνεύματος εὐπειθῶς παιδεύουσαν ἄγεσθαι· τήν δέ ὡς ὕλης καί εἴδους ἁρπάζουσαν, ὡς τόν Ἠλίαν τό ἐκ πυρός ἅρμα, καί Θεῷ διά γνώσεως προσάγουσάν τε καί συνάπτουσαν ὑπό σαρκός μηδ᾿ ὁτιοῦν βαρουμένους, διά τήν τοῦ κατ᾿ αὐτήν νόμου ἀθέτησιν, ἤ ἐπάρσει καθ᾿ ὁτιοῦν ἐπί τοῖς κατορθώμασι φλεγομένους, διά τήν συνημμένην ταῖς ὄντως ἀρεταῖς δρόσον τῆς πτωχείας τοῦ πνεύματος.

Ε´. Ἤ πάλιν τά κατά τόν γάμον καί τήν ἀγαμίαν μυστήρια παρά τῷ Λόγῳ εἶναι μανθάνοντες διά Μωϋσέως, τοῦ διά τόν γάμον τῆς θείας ἐραστοῦ γενέσθαι δόξης μή κωλυθέντος, καί διά ἠλίου, τοῦ παντελῶς γαμικῆς συναφείας καθαροῦ διαμείναντος, οἷα τοῦ Λόγου καί Θεοῦ τούς λόγῳ ταῦτα ἰθύνοντας, κατά τούς θειωδῶς περί αὐτῶν κειμένους νόμους, ἑαυτῷ μυστικῶς εἰσποιεῖσθαι κηρύττοντος.

Στ´. Ἤ ζωῆς καί θανάτου διά τῶν αὐτῶν κύριον πιστῶς ὄντα τόν Λόγον πληροφορούμενοι.

(1164) Ζ´. Ἤ καί τό πάντας ζῇν τῷ Θεῷ καί μηδένα παντελῶς παρ᾿ αὐτῷ νεκρόν εἶναι διά τῶν αὐτῶν μανθάνοντες, πλήν τοῦ ἑαυτόν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ νεκρώσαντος, καί τῇ ἑκουσίῳ πρός τά πάθη ῥοπῇ τοῦ Λόγου ἑαυτόν ἀποκόψαντος.

Η´. Ἤ πάλιν τόν Λόγον ὡς ἀλήθειαν ὄντα κατ᾿ ἀναφοράν εἶναί τε καί ὑπάρχειν τούς τύπους τῶν μυστηρίων, καί εἰς αὐτόν συνάγεσθαι, τῆς τε νομικῆς καί τῆς προφητικῆς πραγματείας ὡς ἀρχήν καί τέλος, ἐφωταγωγοῦντο.

Θ´. Ἤ τά μετά Θεόν πάντα καί ἐκ Θεοῦ γεγονότα, τουτέστι τήν φύσιν τῶν ὄντων καί τόν χρόνον, παρά τῷ Θεῷ ὄντα συνεκφαίνεσθαι ἀληθῶς φαινομένῳ, κατά τό ἐφικτόν, ὡς αἰτίῳ καί ποιητῇ. Ὧν τοῦ μέν χρόνου τύπος ἄν εἴη Μωϋσῆς, οὐ μόνον ὡς χρόνου καί τοῦ κατ᾿ αὐτόν ἀριθμοῦ διάσκαλος (οὗτος γάρ πρῶτος τόν κατά τήν γένεσιν τοῦ κόσμου χρόνον ἠρίθμησε), καί ὡς χρονικῆς γενόμενος λατρείας καθηγητής, ἀλλά καί ὡς μή συνεισερχόμενος ἐκείνοις σωματικῶς εἰς τήν κατάπαυσιν ὧν πρός τῆς θείας καθηγήσατο εὐαγγελίας· τοιοῦτον γάρ ἔχει ὁ χρόνος, οὐ φθάνων ἤ συνερχόμενος κατά τήν κίνησιν ἐκείνοις οὕς πρός τήν θείαν τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος ζωήν πέφυκε παραπέμπειν. Ἰησοῦν γάρ ἔχει τόν παντός ὄντα κάι χρόνου καί αἰῶνος διάδοχον· κἄν εἰ ἄλλως οἱ λόγοι τοῦ χρόνου ἐν τῷ Θεῷ διαμένωσιν, ὡς δηλοῖ μυστικῶς ἡ τοῦ ἐν ἐρήμῳ δοθέντος νόμου διά Μωϋσέως τοῖς τήν γῆς λαβοῦσι τῆς κατασχέσεως συνείσοδος. Αἰών γάρ ἐστιν ὁ χρόνος, ὅταν στῇ τῆς κινήσεως, τόν δέ χρόνος ἐστίν ὁ αἰών, ὅταν μετρῆται κινήσει φερόμενος, ὡς εἶναι τόν μέν αἰῶνα, ἵνα ὡς ἐν ὅρῳ περιλαβών εἴπω, χρόνον ἐστερημένου κινήσεως, τόν δέ χρόνον αἰῶνα κινήσει μετρούμενον. Τῆς δέ φύσεως Ἠλίας, οὐ μόνον ὡς τούς καθ᾿ ἑαυτόν ἀλωβήτους φυλάξας λόγους, καί τό ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς κατά γνώμην φρόνημα τροπῆς τῆς ἐκ πάθους ἐλεύθερον, ἀλλά καί ὡς ἐν κρίσει παιδεύων, οἷόν τις φυσικός νόμος, τούς παρά φύσιν τῇ φύσει χρωμένους. Τοιοῦτον γάρ καί ἡ φύσις, τούς αὐτήν παραφθείρειν ἐπιχειροῦντας τοσοῦτον καλάζουσα, ὅσον τοῦ παρά φύσιν ζῇν ἐπιτηδεύουσι, τῷ μή ὅλην αὐτῆς φυσικῶς ἔτι κεκτῆσθαι τῆς φύσεως τήν δύναμιν, μειωθέντας ἤδη τῆς κατ᾿ αὐτήν ἀρτιότητος καί διά τοῦτο κολαζομένους, ὡς