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ALL THE WORKS OF MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR *

10th Volume 15 C ..................................................................................................................... 1 CONCERNING THE EVENTS IN HIS FIRST EXILE, THAT IS IN BIZYE ............... 1 EXPLANATION OF THE MOTION .............................................................................................. 17 DISCUSSION OF SAINT MAXIMUS WITH PYRRHUS .................................................... 26 ON THE SOUL ...................................................................................................................... 49 A BRIEF INTERPRETATION OF THE PRAYER OUR FATHER, ......................... 52 ON THE LIFE AND STRUGGLE OF OUR HOLY FATHER AND CONFESSOR MAXIMUS ........................................................................................................................... 65

10th Volume 15 C CONCERNING THE EVENTS IN HIS FIRST EXILE, THAT IS IN BIZYE * THE THINGS FROM THEODOSIUS, BISHOP OF CAESAREA IN BITHYNIA, AND HIMSELF

THINGS DISCUSSED I. 15Γ_012 The things set in motion concerning our blameless Christian

faith, and the surreptitious innovation of the adversaries, between Abba Maximus, and Theodosius, bishop of Caesarea in Bithynia, I have deemed it necessary to make manifest to all of you who persist in orthodoxy, so that, knowing these things more precisely, you might all the more glorify the benevolent God, who gives speech in the opening of the mouth 0137 of those who fear him; lest, as is their habit, the enemies of the truth, proclaiming things contrary to it, should trouble your hearts.

II. Therefore on the twenty-fourth of the month of August of the recently passed

fourteenth indiction, he came out to him in the exile where he was being held,

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ΑΠΑΝΤΑ, ΜΑΞΙΜΟΥ τοῦ ΟΜΟΛΟΓΗΤΟΥ *

10ος Τόμος 15 Γ ..................................................................................................................... 1 ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΑΧΘΕΝΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΤΗ ΠΡΩΤΗ ΑΥΤΟΥ ΕΞΟΡΙΑ, ΗΤΟΙ ΕΝ ΒΙΖΥΗ ............... 1 ΕΞΗΓΗΣΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΙΝΗΣΕΩΣ .............................................................................................. 17 ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΜΑΞΙΜΟΥ ΜΕΤΑ ΠΥΡΡΟΥ .................................................... 26 ΠΕΡΙ ΨΥΧΗΣ ...................................................................................................................... 49 ΕΡΜΗΝΕΙΑ ΣΥΝΤΟΜΟΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΣΕΥΧΗΝ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΕΡ ΗΜΩΝ, ......................... 52 ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΒΙΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΑΘΛΗΣΙΝ ΤΟΥ ΟΣΙΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΟΣ ΗΜΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΟΜΟΛΟΓΗΤΟΥ ΜΑΞΙΜΟΥ ........................................................................................................................... 65

10ος Τόμος 15 Γ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΑΧΘΕΝΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΤΗ ΠΡΩΤΗ ΑΥΤΟΥ ΕΞΟΡΙΑ, ΗΤΟΙ ΕΝ ΒΙΖΥΗ * ΤΑ ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΟ∆ΟΣΙΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΕΙΑΣ ΒΙΘΥΝΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΥ

∆ΙΑΛΕΧΘΕΝΤΑ Α'. 15Γ_012 Τά κεκινημένα περί τῆς ἀμωμήτου ἡμῶν τῶν Χριστιανῶν

πίστεως, καί τῆς τῶν δι' ἐναντίας παρεισάκτου καινοτομίας, μεταξύ τοῦ ἀββᾶ Μαξίμου, καί Θεοδοσίου ἐπισκόπου Καισαρείας Βιθυνίας ἀναγκαῖον ἡγησάμην κατάδηλον ποιῆσαι πᾶσιν ὑμῖν τοῖς ἐν ὀρθοδοξίᾳ διατελοῦσιν, ἵνα ἀκριβέστερον τά περί τούτων εἰδέναι ἔχοντες, δοξάζητε μᾶλλον τόν φιλάνθρωπον Θεόν, τόν διδόντα λόγον ἐν ἀνοίξει τοῦ στόματος 0137 τῶν φοβουμένων αὐτόν· μήπως συνήθως οἱ ἐχθροί τῆς ἀληθείας, τἀναντία ταύτης διαφημίζοντες, ἐκταράξωσιν ὑμῶν τάς καρδίας.

Β'. Τοιγαροῦν τῇ εἰκοστῇ τετάρτῃ τοῦ Αὐγούστου μηνός τῆς νυνί παρελθούσης

τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτης ἐπινεμήσεως, ἐξῆλθεν πρός αὐτόν ἐν ᾗ παρεφυλάττετο ἐξορίᾳ,