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TO MARINUS ................................................................................................................ 21

THE MOST HOLY PRESBYTER.................................................................................... 21

Concerning the natural will, that is, of willing. ............................................................... 21

On counsel............................................................................................................... 22

On deliberation, or deliberating. .................................................................................. 22

On choice............................................................................................................ 22

On the things about which we deliberate. .............................................................................................. 23

On opinion..................................................................................................................... 23

On authority. .................................................................................................................. 23

On glory ........................................................................................................................ 24

On mindset(e), or prudence...................................................................... 24

That in every way the will of the saints will not be one after the resurrection

toward one another and God, even if the thing willed is one for all, as some say................... 25

That it is not possible for one will to be spoken of in Christ; whether natural, or

of choice, as has seemed to some. .......................................................................... 27

SCHOLIA. ............................................................................................................................ 30

From the treatise concerning energies and wills, chap. 50(i). ........................ 30

From the same treatise chap. 51......................................................................... 32

That the Fathers, in speaking of two wills of Christ, signified the natural laws, not

the opinions. .......................................................................................................... 32

To GEORGE the most devout presbyter and abbot, who asked by

letter concerning the mystery of Christ..................................................................... 36

To those who say that one must speak of one energy of Christ by predominance; because

his divine, as more active, predominates over the human, thus one must make a defense. ......................................................................................................................... 38

To those who say that, Just as of an instrument and that which moves it there is one energy, so also of divinity and of humanity there is one energy. ................................................................. 38

To those saying, one composite energy of Christ. .................................. 38

Concerning the «Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me». .......................... 39

SCHOLION .......................................................................................................................... 40

Dogmatic Tome sent in Cyprus to Marinus the deacon. .............................. 40

SCHOLIA. ............................................................................................................................ 47

A COPY .................................................................................................................................. 47

Of a letter written to the most holy bishop lord Nicander, by

Maximus among the saints, concerning the two energies in Christ............................................ 47

SCHOLION .......................................................................................................................... 54

(193) A copy of a letter to the lord Marinus the presbyter of Cyprus. .. 61

From the letter written in Rome. ................................................................. 63

Concerning the two natures of Christ. ............................................................................. 63

Various Definitions. ................................................................................................................ 65

A spiritual and dogmatic tome, demonstrating the one having come to be according to innovation

adventitious exposition of Heraclius the emperor, from the instigation of Sergius the president of Constantinople, being discordant indeed with the sacred Oracles and Fathers; but consonant with the unholy heretics of both confusion and division at once

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ΠΡΟΣ MΑΡΙΝΟΝ ................................................................................................................ 21

ΤΟΝ ΟΣΙΩΤΑΤΟΝ ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΕΡΟΝ.................................................................................... 21

Περί φυσικοῦ θελήματος, ἤγουν θελήσεως. ............................................................... 21 Περί βουλήσεως............................................................................................................... 22 Περί βουλῆς ἤγουν βουλεύσεως. .................................................................................. 22 Περί προαιρέσεως............................................................................................................ 22 Περί τίνων βουλευόμεθα. .............................................................................................. 23 Περί γνώμης..................................................................................................................... 23 Περί ἐξουσίας. .................................................................................................................. 23 Περί δόξης ........................................................................................................................ 24 Περί φρονήματος(ε), ἤγουν φρονήσεως...................................................................... 24 Ὅτι κατά πάντα τρόπον οὐκ ἔσται μετά τήν ἀνάστασιν ἕν τό θέλημα τῶν ἁγίων

πρός ἀλλήλους καί τόν Θεόν, κἄν ἕν πᾶσι τό θεληθέν, ὥς τινες λέγουσιν................... 25 Ὅτιπερ ἕν θέλημα οὐ δυνατόν ἐπί Χριστοῦ λέγεσθαι· εἴτε φυσικόν, εἴτε

προαιρετικόν λεχθῇ, καθώς τισιν ἔδοξεν. .......................................................................... 27 ΣΧΟΛΙΑ. ............................................................................................................................ 30 Ἐκ τῆς περί ἐνεργειῶν καί θελημάτων πραγματείας, κεφάλ. ν´(ι). ........................ 30 Ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς πραγματείας κεφάλ. να´......................................................................... 32 Ὅτι δύο θελήματα λέγοντες οἱ Πατέρες ἐπί Χριστοῦ, τούς φυσικούς νόμους, οὐ

τάς γνώμας ἐσήμαναν. .......................................................................................................... 32 Πρός ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΝ τόν ὀσιώτατον πρεσβύτερον καί ἡγούμενον, ἐρωτήσαντα δι'

ἐπιστολῆς περί τοῦ κατά Χριστόν μυστηρίου..................................................................... 36 Πρός τούς λέγοντας, ὅτι μίαν Χριστοῦ χρή λέγειν ἐνέργειαν κατ᾿ ἐπικράτειαν· διά

τό ὡς δραστικωτέραν τήν θείαν αὐτοῦ, κατεπικρατεῖν τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης οὕτω χρή ἀπολογεῖσθαι. ......................................................................................................................... 38

Πρός τούς λέγοντας, ὅτι Ὥσπερ ὀργάνου καί τοῦ κινοῦντος μία ἐνέργεια, οὕτως καί θεότητος καί ἀνθρωπότητος μία ἐνέργεια. ................................................................. 38

Πρός τούς λέγοντας, μίαν σύνθετον τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐνέργειαν. .................................. 38 Περί τοῦ «Πάτερ, εἰ δυνατόν, παρελθέτω ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ τό ποτήριον». .......................... 39 ΣΧΟΛΙΟΝ .......................................................................................................................... 40 Τόμος δογματικός σταλείς ἐν Κύπρῳ πρός Μαρῖνον διάκονον. .............................. 40 ΣΧΟΛΙΑ. ............................................................................................................................ 47 ΙΣΟΝ .................................................................................................................................. 47 Ἐπιστολῆς γενομένης πρός τόν ἁγιώτατον ἐπίσκοπον κύριον Νίκανδρον, παρά

τοῦ ἐν ἁγίοις Μαξίμου, περί τῶν δύο ἐν Χριστῷ ἐνεργειῶν............................................ 47 ΣΧΟΛΙΟΝ .......................................................................................................................... 54 (193) Ἴσον ἐπιστολῆς πρός τόν κύριον Μαρῖνον τόν πρεσβύτερον τῆς Κύπρου. .. 61 Ἐκ τῆς ἐπιστολῆς τῆς ἐνῬώμῃ γραφείσης. ................................................................. 63 Περί τῶν δύο τοῦ Χριστοῦ φύσεων. ............................................................................. 63 Ὅροι διάφοροι. ................................................................................................................ 65 Πνευματικός τόμος καί δογματικός, ἀποδεικνύς τήν κατά καινοτομίαν γεγονυῖαν

ἐπείσακτον ἔκθεσιν Ἡρακλείου τοῦ βασιλέως, ἐξ ὑποστολῆς Σεργίου τοῦ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως προέδρου, ἀπᾴδουσα μέν τῶν ἱερῶν Λογίων τε καί Πατέρων· συνᾴδουσα δέ τοῖς ἀνιέροις αἱρετικοῖς τοῖς τήν τε σύγχυσιν ἄμα, καί τήν διαίρεσιν