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THE COMPLETE WORKS, OF MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR *

11th Volume 15 D ..................................................................................................................... 1 VARIOUS CHAPTERS ON THEOLOGY AND THE DIVINE ECONOMY ............................................. 1 OTHER CHAPTERS ............................................................................................................. 73 SCHOLIA ON THE EPISTLES OF SAINT DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE ..................... 92

11th Volume 15 D VARIOUS CHAPTERS ON THEOLOGY AND THE DIVINE ECONOMY * AND CONCERNING VIRTUE AND VICE, FIRST CENTURY 15∆_014 1.1 (a) The one supra-unoriginate and supra-essential good is the holy

tri-hypostatic Monad, Father and Son and Holy Spirit; an infinite co-naturality of three infinites, holding the principle of being, and how, and what, and of what kind of being, altogether inaccessible to created beings. For it escapes all intellection of those who think, proceeding from the in no way hidden interiority according to nature, and is infinitely extended beyond all knowledge of all knowledges.

1.2 (b) That which is properly the good according to essence is that which has neither beginning, nor end, nor cause of being, nor any motion. But that which is not so, is not properly being, as it has a beginning and an end and a cause of its being, and the motion according to being towards a cause. And that which is not properly being, even if it is said to be, is and is so called by participation, by the will of that which is properly being.

1.3 (c) If Logos precedes the genesis of beings, then there neither was, nor is, nor will be a logos superior to the Logos. But Logos, not without intellect or devoid of life; but intelligent and living, as begetting 15∆_016 a Mind, having 1180 essentially

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ΑΠΑΝΤΑ, ΜΑΞΙΜΟΥ τοῦ ΟΜΟΛΟΓΗΤΟΥ *

11ος Τόμος 15 ∆ ..................................................................................................................... 1 ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΑ ∆ΙΑΦΟΡΑ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΚΑ ΤΕ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΑ ............................................. 1 ΕΤΕΡΑ ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΑ ............................................................................................................. 73 ΣΧΟΛΙΑ ΕΙΣ ΤΑΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΟΥ ∆ΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ ΑΡΕΟΠΑΓΙΤΟΥ ..................... 92

11ος Τόμος 15 ∆ ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΑ ∆ΙΑΦΟΡΑ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΚΑ ΤΕ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΑ * ΚΑΙ ΠΕΡΙ ΑΡΕΤΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΚΙΑΣ ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΣ ΠΡΩΤΗ 15∆_014 1.1 (α΄) Ἕν ἐστι τό ὑπεράναρχον καί ὑπερούσιον ἀγαθόν, ἡ ἁγία

τρισυπόστατος Μονάς, Πατήρ καί Υἱός καί ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· τριῶν ἀπείρων ἄπειρος συμφυΐα τόν τε τοῦ εἶναι, καί πῶς, καί τί, καί ποῖον εἶναι λόγου πάμπαν τοῖς οὖσιν ἄβατον ἔχουσα. Πᾶσαν γάρ διαφεύγει νόησιν τῶν νοούντων τῆς κατά φύσιν οὐδαμῶς κρυφίας ἐνδότητος ἐξιοῦσα, καί πάσης πασῶν γνώσεων ἀπείρως ὑπερεκτείνεται γνώσεως.

1.2 (β΄) Τό κατ᾿ οὐσίαν κυρίως ὅν ἀγαθόν, ἐστί τό μήτε ἀρχήν, μήτε τέλος, μήτε αἰτίαν τοῦ εἶναι τινά κίνησιν ἔχον. Τό δέ μή οὕτως ἔχον, οὐδέ κυρίως ὄν, ὡς ἀρχήν καί τέλος καί αἰτίαν τοῦ εἶναι, καί τήν κατά τό εἶναι πρός αἰτίαν κίνησιν ἔχον. Τό δέ κυρίως οὐκ ὄν, κἄν εἶναι λέγηται, κατά μέθεξιν βουλήσει τοῦ κυρίως ὄντος, καί ἔστι καί λέγεται.

1.3 (γ΄) Εἰ Λόγος προκαθηγεῖται τῆς τῶν ὄντων γενέσεως, οὔτε ἦν, οὔτε ἔστιν, οὔτε ἔσται τοῦ Λόγου λόγος ἀνώτερος. Λόγος δέ, οὐκ ἄνους ἤ ζωῆς ἄμοιρος· ἀλλ᾿ ἔννους καί ζῶν, ὡς γεννῶντα 15∆_016 Νοῦν ἔχων 1180 οὐσιωδῶς