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λγ. Do not drink wine, do not be filled with water; but if not, you provide the same matter for fornication.

λδ´. Pride causes one to depart from divine assistance, to trust in oneself, and to be exalted over men.

λε´. Two things are set forth as remedies against pride; he who does not accept them will have a third, exceedingly sharp one.

λστ´. Prayer with tears, despising no one, and involuntary afflictions destroy pride.

λζ´.The discipline of temptations is an intelligible rod, teaching humility to the one exalted in his foolishness.

λη´. The proper work of the mind is not to endure a thought that secretly speaks evil against a neighbor.

λθ´. Just as a gardener, by not removing the weeds, chokes the vegetables; so also the mind, by not cleansing its thoughts, destroys its labors.

μ´. A prudent man is one who accepts counsel, and especially that of a spiritual father counseling according to God.

μα´. One who is deadened by the passions does not perceive counsel, and does not endure spiritual discipline at all.

μβ´. He who does not accept counsel does not make his ways straight, but is always carried over cliffs and ravines.

μγ´. 1464) A monk is a mind that has renounced sensation, and that cannot bear even to see a thought of pleasure.

μδ´. A physician is a mind that has healed itself, and heals others by that with which it was healed. με´. Seek virtue, and do not be deprived of it, lest you both live shamefully, and

die miserably. μστ´. Our Lord Jesus Christ bestowed the light upon all, but those who do not obey

Him, darken themselves. μζ´. Do not consider the loss of virtue a small thing; for on account of it death into the

world entered. μη´. Obedience to a commandment is the resurrection of the dead. For to virtue according to nature

life follows. μθ´. When the mind was deadened by the transgression of the commandment, of necessity there also followed the

death of the body. ν´. Just as Adam, having transgressed, fell under death, so the Savior, having obeyed, the

put death to death. να´. Put wickedness to death, so that you may not rise dead, and from a small death into a great

pass. νβ´. Because of the transgression of Adam the Savior became man, so that having loosed the little by little

He might raise all. νγ´. He passes from life to life, who has put the passions to death, and of ignorance

been separated. νδ´. Search the Scriptures, and you will find the commandments, and do the things that are said,

and you will be delivered from the passions. νε´. Obedience to a commandment brings about purification of the soul, and the purification of the soul brings about of light

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λγ. Μή πίων οἶνον, μή χορτασθῇς ὕδατος· εἰ δέ μήγε, τήν αὐτήν ὕλην τῇ πορνείᾳ παρέχεις.

λδ´. Ἡ ὑπερηφανία τῆς θείας ἀφίστασιαι ποιεῖ βοηθείας, ἐφ᾿ ἑαυτῷ πεποιθέναι, καί τῶν ἀνθρώπων κατεπαίρεσθαι.

λε´. Φάρμακα κατά τῆς ὑπερηφανίας δύο πρόκεινται πράγματα· ἅπερ ὁ μή καταδεχόμενος, τρίτον ἕξει σφόδρα δριμύτατον.

λστ´. Ὑπερηφανίαν ἀναιρεῖ προσευχή μετά δακρύων, καί τό μηδένα ἐξουθενεῖν, καί ἀκούσιοι ἐπιφοραί.

λζ´.Ῥάβδος ἐστίν νοητή, ἡ διά πειρασμῶν παίδευσις, ταπεινοφρονεῖν ἐκδιδάσκουσα τόν ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ ἐπαιρόμενον.

λη´. Ἴδιον ἔργον τοῦ νοῦ, τό μή ἀνέχεσθαι λογισμοῦ λάθρα καταλαλοῦντος κατά τοῦ πλησίον.

λθ´. Ὥσπερ ὁ κηπουρός, μή ἀπαίρων τάς βοτάνας, ἀποπνίγει τά λάχανα· οὕτως καί ὁ νοῦς μή καθαίρων τούς λογισμούς, ἀπόλλυσι τούς πόνους.

μ´. Συνετός ἀνήρ, ὁ συμβουλῆς ἀνεχόμενος, καί μάλιστα τοῦ πνευματικοῦ πατρός κατά Θεόν συμβουλεύοντος.

μα´. Νενεκρωμένος ὑπό παθῶν, συμβουλῆς οὐκ αἰσθάνεται, καί τῆς παιδεύσεως πνευματικῆς τό σύνολον οὐκ ἀνέχεται.

μβ´. Ὁ μή δεχόμενος συμβουλήν, οὐ κατορθοῖ τάς ὁδούς αὐτοῦ, ἀλλά κατά κρημνῶν ἀεί καί φαράγγων φέρεται.

μγ´. 1464) Μοναχός ἐστιν, νοῦς ὁ τῇ αἰσθήσει ἀποταξάμενος, καί λογισμόν ἡδονῆς μηδέ ἰδεῖν ἀνεχόμενος.

μδ´. Ἰατρός ἐστι νοῦς ὁ ἑαυτόν ἰσασάμενος, καί ἐξ ὧν ἰάθη τούς ἄλλους ἰώμενος. με´. Ζήτησον τήν ἀρετήν, καί μή ζωμιωθῇς αὐτήν, ἵνα μή καί ζήσῃς αἰσχρῶς, καί

ἀποθάνῃς ἐλεεινῶς. μστ´. Ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός πᾶσι τό φῶς ἐχαρίσατο, ἀλλ᾿ οἱ μή πειθόμενοι

αὐτῷ, ἑαυτούς σκοτίζουσιν. μζ´. Μή μικρόν εἶναι νόμιζε τήν τῆς ἀρετῆς ζημίαν· διά ταύτην γάρ θάνατος εἰς τόν

κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν. μη´. Ἐντολῆς ὑπακοή, νεκρῶν ἐστιν ἀνάστασις. Τῇ γάρ ἀρετῇ κατά τήν φύσιν

ἐπακολουθεῖ ἡ ζωή. μθ´. Νεκρωθέντος τοῦ νοῦ τῇ τῆς ἐντολῆς παραβάσει, ἐπηκολούθει ἐξ ἀνάγκης καί ὁ

τοῦ σώματος θάνατος. ν´. Ὥσπερ ὁ Ἀδάμ παραβάς, θανάτῳ ὑπέπεσεν, οὕτως ὁ Σωτήρ ὑπακούσας, τόν

θάνατον ἐνέκρωσεν. να´. Νέκρωσον τήν κακίαν, ἵνα νεκρός μή ἀναστῇς, καί ἐκ μικροῦ θανάτου εἰς μέγαν

μεταβῇς. νβ´. ∆ιά τήν τοῦ Ἀδάμ παράβασιν ὁ Σωτήρ ἐνηνθρώπησεν, ἵνα τό κατά μικρόν λύσας

τούς πάντας ἐξαναστήσῃ. νγ´. Ἐκ ζωῆς εἰς ζωήν ἐκεῖνος μεταβαίνει, ὁ τά πάθη νεκρώσας, καί τῆς ἀγνοίας

χωρισθείς. νδ´. Ἐρεύνησον τάς Γραφάς, καί εὑρίσκεις τάς ἐντολάς, καί τά λεγόμενα ποίησον,

καί τῶν παθῶν ἀπαλάττῃ. νε´. Ὑπακοή ἐντολῆς, ψυχῆς ποιεῖ κάθαρσιν, ἡ δέ τῆς ψυχῆς κάθαρσις, φωτός ποιεῖ

μέθεξιν.