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οα´. 1456) This is the way of those who live in carelessness, and this is the treasure of the things hidden in me.

οβ´. Suffering and humility save a soul, and they deliver it from the aforementioned passions.

ογ´. The property of a prudent thought is a beneficial word, and of a good soul, a zealous action. οδ´. An enlightened mind brings forth wise words, and a pure soul thoughts

cultivates divine. οε´. The thoughts of a zealous man meditate on wisdom, and his words enlighten those

who hear. οστ´. When virtues are underlying in the soul, it cultivates good thoughts; but of evils

being underlying, it gives birth to wicked thoughts. οζ´. A workshop of wicked thoughts, is a passionate soul; and from its own treasure

it brings forth wicked things. οη´. The good treasure is the state of virtue, and the good mind from this

brings forth good things. οθ´. The mind, being moved by divine love, cultivates good thoughts about God; but by

self-love, the opposite. π´. The mind, being moved by love for the neighbor, unceasingly good things about him

thinks, and again from the opposite, it proposes wicked things. πα´. Virtues are the causes of good thoughts, and of virtues, the commandments; and of these

working, the choice. πβ´. Virtues and vices coming into being and passing away, well or ill the soul

dispose, moving it to thoughts against one another. πγ´. Vices are the causes of wicked thoughts, and of vices, disobedience, and of

disobedience, the deceit of the senses, and of deceit, the mind's carelessness about its security.

πδ´. In those who are progressing, the dispositions of the opposites become easily changeable. But in the perfect, in both cases, the states are hard to move.

πε´.The strength of the soul is a state of virtue that is hard to move, about which he who had attained it said: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? and so forth.

πστ´. Self-love indeed precedes all the passions, but pride follows last of all.

πζ´. The three most general thoughts of desire have their birth from the passion of self-love.

πη´. Understand by all means the thoughts of gluttony and vainglory and love of money, which all the passionate thoughts follow, but not all in common.

πθ´. The thought of fornication follows the thought of gluttony, and that of pride follows that of vainglory; but the rest follow the three in common.

Τέσσ. ἀν.´. They follow the three in common, those of sadness, and of anger and of remembrance of wrongs and of envy and of acedia, and the rest.

Τέσσ. ἀν. α´. (1457) O Christ, Master of all, deliver us from all these, from both the destructive passions, and from the thoughts born from them.

Τέσσ. ἀν. β´. For your sake we have come into being, that we might delight in you, placed in the paradise planted by you.

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οα´. 1456) Ἥδε ὁδός τῶν ἐν ἀμελείᾳ βιούντων, καί οὗτος ὁ θησαυρός τῶν ἐν ἐμοί κεκρυμμένων.

οβ´. Σώζουσι ψυχήν κακοπάθεια καί ταπείνωσις, καί ἐκ τῶν προειρημένων παθῶν ἀπαλλάττουσιν αυτήν.

ογ´. Ἴδιον ἐννοίας συνετῆς λόγος ὠφέλιμος, καί ψυχῆς ἀγαθῆς πρᾶξις σπουδαία. οδ´. Νοῦς πεφωτισμένος λόγους προφέρει σοφούς, καί ψυχή καθαρά λογισμούς

γεωργεῖ θείους. οε´. Λογισμοί σπουδαίου σοφίαν μελετῶσι, καί οἰ λόγοι αὐτοῦ φωτίζουσι τούς

ἀκούοντας. οστ´. Ὑποκειμένων ἐν ψυχῇ ἀρετῶν, ἀγαθούς γεωργεῖ λογισμούς· κακιῶν δέ

ὑποκειμένων, φαύλας τίκτει ἐννοίας. οζ´. Πονηρῶν ἐννοιῶν ἐργαστήριον, ψυχή ἐμπαθής· καί ἐκ τοῦ ἑαυτῆς θησαυροῦ

προφέρει τά πονηρά. οη´. Ὁ ἀγαθός θησαυρός, ἡ ἕξις ἐστί τῆς ἀρετῆς, καί ὁ ἀγαθός νοῦς ἐκ ταύτης

προφέρει τά ἀγαθά. οθ´. Ὑπό θείας ἀγάπης ἐνεγούμενος ὁ νοῦς, ἀγαθάς ἐννοίας περί Θεοῦ γεωργεῖ· ὑπό

δέ τῆς φιλαυτίας ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου. π´. Νοῦς ὑπό τῆς εἰς τόν πλησίον ἀγάπης κινούμενος, καλά περί αὐτοῦ ἀδιαλείπτως

λογίζεται, καί πάλιν ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου τά πονηρά ὑποτίθεται. πα´. Τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐννοιῶν αἱ ἀρεταί αἰτίαι, τῶν δέ ἀρετῶν αἱ ἐντολαί· τῆς δέ τούτων

ἐργασίας, ἡ προαίρεσις. πβ´. Αἱ ἀρεταί καί αἱ κακίαι γινόμεναι καί ἀπογινόμεναι, εὖ ἤ κακῶς τήν ψυχήν

διατιθέασι, κινοῦσαι εἰς ἐννοίας κατ᾿ ἀλλήλων. πγ´. Τῶν πονηρῶν ἐννοιῶν αἰτίαι αἱ κακίαι, τῶν δέ κακιῶν ἡ παρακοή, τῆς δέ

παρακοῆς ἡ τῆς αἰσθήσεως ἀπάτη, τῆς δέ ἀπάτης ἡ τοῦ νοῦ περί τήν ἀσφάλειαν αὐτῆς ἀμέλεια.

πδ´. Ἐν μέν τοῖς προκόπτουσιν εὐμετάπτωτοι γίνονται αἱ διαθέσεις τῶν ἐναντίων. Ἐν δέ τοῖς τελείοις κατ᾿ ἄμφω ἕξεις δυσκίνητοι.

πε´.Ῥώμη ψυχῆς ἐστιν ἕξις ἀρετῆς δυσκίνητος, εἰς ἥν ὁ φθάσας ἔλεγεν· Τίς ἡμᾶς χωρίσει ἀπό τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ Χριστοῦ; καί τά ἐξῆς.

πστ´. Προηγεῖται μέν πάντων τῶν παθῶν ἡ φιλαυτία, ἕπεται δέ πάντων ἔσχατον ἡ ὑπερηφανία.

πζ´. Οἱ τρεῖς γενικώτατοι τῆς ἐπιθυμίας λογισμοί, ἐκ τοῦ πάθους τῆς φιλαυτίας τήν γέννησιν ἔχουσιν.

πη´. Νόει πάντως τούς τε τῆς γαστριμαργίας καί κενοδοξίας καί φιλαργυρίας λογισμούς, οἷς ἕπονται πάντες οἱ ἐμπαθεῖς λογισμοί, ἀλλ᾿ οὐ πάντες κοινῶς.

πθ´. Τῷ τῆς γαστριμαργίας λογισμῷ ἕπεται ὁ τῆς πορνείας, τῷ δέ τῆς κενοδοξίας ὁ τῆς ὑπερηφανίας· οἱ δέ λοιποί κοινῶς τοῖς τρισίν.

Τέσσ. ἀν.´. Ἀκολουθοῦσι κοινῶς τοῖς τρισίν, οἵ τε τῆς λύπης, καί τῆς ὀργῆς καί τῆς μνησικακίας καί φθόνου καί ἀκηδίας, καί οἱ λοιποί.

Τέσσ. ἀν. α´. (1457) ∆έσποτα τῶν ἁπάντων Χριστέ, ἐκ πάντων τούτων ἡμᾶς ἐλευθέρωσον, τῶν τε ὀλεθρίων παθῶν, καί τῶν ἐξ αὐτῶν τικτομένων λογισμῶν.

Τέσσ. ἀν. β´. Ἕνεκά σου γεγόναμεν, ἵνα σοῦ κατατρυφήσωμεν ἐν παραδείσῳ τιθέντες, τῷ ὑπό σοῦ φυτευθέντι.