Guide to Evagrius Ponticus

Prak

pref.2

wound it. Anyone who bears this hood on his

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pref.8

hope: from these is born apatheia [dispassion], which brings

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4

epithumia) and desire is born of sensation: thus that

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Gn.

48

Didymus, "and strive to bear in your memory their

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KG

1.32 S2

understand those who are born from them.

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2.70 S2

created which does not bear, each in its particular

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3.56 S2

is so, then objects bear the sign of ‘trees

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3.67 S2

All second natural contemplations bear the sign of milk

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3.84 S2

the second natural contemplation bears the sign of [the

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5.32 S2

contained) in the second bears the sign of water

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5.67 S2

If reasoning natures bear the sign of trees

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6.73 S2 (+1)

is incorporeal that it bears the likeness of God

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Ad virg.

2.2

head of her who bore you.

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On Prayer

19

it], you will discover bearing fruit at the time

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130

to them you will bear with pleasure the present

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Prak

11

and attacks from poisonous beasts. These four things associated

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54

run defeated from the beasts and from the men

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100

are bitten by wild beasts.

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KG

1.53 S1

which trouble thumos, and beasts those which excite epithumia

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1.53 S2

move desire [are called] beasts.

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6.85 S2

that we and the beasts have in common belong

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On Prayer

91

upon you like [wild] beasts and injure your whole

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99

your flesh like [wild] beasts, do not let them

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Instr

18

filled with anger of beasts; and the birds of

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Prak

pref.2

are always attempting to beat and wound it. Anyone

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On Prayer

140

wool-cleaners. If they do beat and trample you, stretch

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KG

4.37 S2

bees [breathing] by the beating of their wings; and

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Exhortations to Monks

1.15

will receive a severe beating for knowing the will

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Apophthegmata

1

that realm, joy and beatitude. 'Keep in mind the

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KG

1.40 S1 (+1)

have pity is a beautiful seed of virtue

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4.75 S1

fame in works of beautiful actions and in the

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KG

5.29 S2

cities to see their beauty are amazed by looking

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Ep fid

39

in proportion to the beauty of the things created

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On Prayer

86

Knowledge has great beauty: it is the co-worker

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KG

4.76 S1

quickly break up his bed before he gets well

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4.76 S2

quickly break up his bed.

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Ep fid

18

s son had no bed to lie on, complain

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Sent alph I

6

good courage on a bed of straw, than to

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6

be troubled upon a bed of gold.

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On Prayer

pref.4

then take up my bed and walk by the

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KG

4.37 S2

from their surroundings are bees [breathing] by the beating

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Ep fid

39

work of the wise bee in forming its cells

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KG

4.15 S2

the age of adulthood befitting the just or the

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On Prayer

84

Prayer is the power befitting the dignity of the

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Ep fid

4

unawares; let them not befoul the purity of your

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KG

5.33 S2

hand, is ashamed to beg - he who is the

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Ep fid

3

Give me, therefore, I beg you, a little time

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25

Do not, I beg you, have in mind

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Prak

81

of God, which is begotten by right belief. Belief

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KG

1.49 S2

which through this deprivation begets ignorance.

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3.89 S2

our body which is begotten by our parents cannot

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3.89 S2

parents cannot in turn beget them, so also the

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3.89 S2

the soul, which is begotten by God, can not

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6.31 S2

Begotten is one who has

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6.31 S2

one who has been begotten by someone, as by

🗏🗐

Ad virg.

5.2

and remember Christ who begot you.

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Ep fid

9

God in substance, Who begat the Son, God in

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Instr

9

of the one who begot you.

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Prak

43

that when [tempting-] thoughts begin to move their own

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63

When the nous begins perform its prayers without

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64

is that the nous begins to behold its [own

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KG

5.14 S2

to the nous which begins to approach the logoi

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Ep fid

2

considerable time. Then I began to yearn for the

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On Prayer

134

into supposing you have begun to conquer [tempting-]thoughts

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Prak

57

One who perceives the beginnings of the first [peaceful

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84

knowledge is theology. The beginning in each case is

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Gn.

17

the source [and the beginning] of knowledge and ignorance

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25

end, but from the beginning; and it is not

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KG

1.39 S2

were made [in the beginning] - not [the seeds] of

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2.1 S2

things that in the beginning were nothing [and have

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2.20 S2

was immaterial in the beginning; [but] in the end

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2.61 S2

we knew in the beginning without matter, we now

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3.55 S2

In the beginning the nous had [the

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4.18 S2

the Word in the beginning,4 just as as he

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4.18 S2

not God in the beginning. 5 Rather the latter [God

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5.50 S2

corporeal nature in the beginning became something out of

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5.63 S2

us back to the beginning of objects, and properly

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5.63 S2

For it is without beginning, nor do we say

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5.63 S2

is God, if these beginnings accord in the contemplation

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5.63 S2

which they are the beginnings. Indeed, such a wisdom

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6.36 S2

movement; and at the beginning has transgressed the borders

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6.36 S2

has been called the. beginning of the Lord’s

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Monks

3.1

Faith is the beginning of love.

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Ep

57.5

These words of beginning knowledge emerged as lamentation

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Ep fid

27

and He is named “Beginning of ways” of good

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Sent alph I

1

The beginning of salvation—to condemn

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Assorted Chapters

1

The beginning of love—to be

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10

to be since the beginning.

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On Prayer

49

harvest. Indeed from the beginning you were assigned this

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116

The beginning of [deceptive] wandering of

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KG

2.53 S2

solely has the sole [-begotten].

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4.16 S2

no other has been begotten, and after whom no

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Ep fid

4

the terms “unbegotten” and “begotten” into our faith, and

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Prak

49

without the body, on behalf of all the powers

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99

anger always fights on behalf of pleasures and disturbs

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On Prayer

81

supplicate God on our behalf, treating our own worship

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KG

1.66 S1

them; but it is behind us that are said

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1.66 S2

have the senses; while behind us are the vices

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2.43 S2

one who was left [behind] there; but he will

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Prak

64

the nous begins to behold its [own] proper gentle

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Gn.

1

the knowers (gnostikoi) will behold matters of knowledge.

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4

the mind; and in beholding them, the nous welcomes

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Skemmata

25

and been taught to behold the logoi of the

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Ep fid

35

things or because He beholds (Θεᾶσθαι) all things. If He

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35

because He “placed” or “beholds” all things, and the

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37

be contemplation. Now we behold their shadows as in

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37

the immortal, we shall behold their archetypes, we shall

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On Prayer

58

it has still not beheld the perfect place of

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Prak

pref.8

dispassion], which brings into being love. Love is the

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2

with true knowledge of beings

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24

nature to fight human beings, so as to darken

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53

attain the contemplation of beings, recognize the grace of

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56

our union with incorporeal beings is the similarity of

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60

Perfect apatheia comes into being in the soul after

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89

that virtue comes into being it is called[1a

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89

of corporeal and incorporeal beings. [2A] The work of

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92

is the nature of beings, and it is there

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Gn.

14

conduct; and, among living beings, who have the memory

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25

of bodies and incorporeal [beings] resemble invalids who [carry

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49

truth hidden in all beings; but to distance the

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KG

1.3 S2

substantial [nature of His] being is.

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1.27 S2

the contemplation of incorporeal beings and of bodies; the

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1.36 S2

sensor is the living being that possesses the senses

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1.43 S1

is not from among beings.

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1.43 S2

not [one] among other[beings].

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1.45 S2

is nothing among incorporeal[beings] that has power in

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1.48 S1

by God, imprints its being as it wishes, either

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1.50 S1

of God; but among beings, some are firsts, and

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1.50 S2

of God; but among beings some are first and

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1.50 S1

Older than the first beings is (spiritual) knowledge, and

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1.50 S1

older) than the second beings is movement

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1.50 S2

is older than first beings; and the movement is

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1.50 S2

is older than second beings.

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1.54 S1

emptiness contained . The second beings are coextensive with emptiness

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1.54 S2

set. And while second beings are coextensive with emptiness

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1.55 S2

action; but none among beings [will be delivered] from

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1.57 S2

abyss; but there exist [beings] even more cruel, such

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1.61 S1

none of the second beings which would not be

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1.61 S1

none of the first beings which would be contained

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1.61 S2

There are no second beings receptive of knowledge, nor

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1.61 S2

knowledge, nor any first beings who were first in

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1.62 S2

to one the second beings, which is accurately and

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1.64 S2

true life, who among beings is immortal? For every

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1.68 S2

predominate, but in human beings epithumia and earth, and

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1.70 S2

logoi concerning the intelligible [beings]; third, then, is one

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1.70 S2

also sees the incorporeal beings; and then fourth is

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1.73 S2

is the contemplation of beings. Many of the wise

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1.74 S2

and the contemplation of beings.

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1.84 S2

the first accompanies first[beings], and the second, second

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1.84 S2

and the second, second [beings].

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1.85 S2

the company of incorporeal [beings] who fulfil all its

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1.87 S2

All beings exist for the knowledge

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2.5 S2

is the contemplation of beings; and the soul of

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2.23 S2

knows the contemplation of beings - he is not absolutely

🗏🗐

2.35 S1

creatures. Vision shows it beings as [external objects; through

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2.37 S2

one among all the beings who is without a

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2.64 S2

Among the beings some have been produced

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2.64 S2

subject of the first [beings], no one has provided

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2.64 S2

subject of the second [beings], he who has been

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2.80 S2

organa of the celestial [beings], and more [varied still

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3.4 S2

by the contemplation of beings, to men that they

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3.8 S2

of all the second beings.

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3.13 S2

to some of the beings; and because of this

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3.41 S2

Concerning the contemplation of beings and the knowledge of

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3.43 S2

e. chrism]; but human beings especially and abundantly possess

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3.54 S2

Gabriel, Gabriel, and human beings, human beings.

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3.54 S2

and human beings, human beings.

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3.58 S2

learn the wisdom of beings has need of spiritual

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3.68 S2

destruction of bodies, second beings, and the diminution of

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4.4 S2

intellections of all the beings subsequent to the first

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4.7 S2

ly] manifold wisdom in beings - he also teaches those

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4.14 S2

of the knowledge of beings.

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4.21 S2

designates the contemplation of beings. And if Christ is

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4.42 S2

is the contemplation of beings, and eternal life is

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4.62 S2

be instructed concerning incorporeal [beings], concerning bodies, or even

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4.62 S2

will not see incorporeal[beings], if it be impure

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5.12 S2

sees the logoi of beings does not henceforth truly

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5.14 S2

approach the logoi of beings, objects appear obscurely.

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5.15 S2

by the contemplation of beings.

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5.17 S2

when the logoi of beings flee from the pure

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5.23 S2

passions of the reasoning beings (logikoi) have forced the

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5.29 S2

approaches the logoi of beings, will be filled with

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5.30 S2

is the contemplation of beings, and if the former

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5.32 S2

the knowledge of incorporeal [beings]; and what (is contained

🗏🗐

5.35 S2

is the contemplation of beings, and if we have

🗏🗐

5.39 S2

how the logoi of beings and of the holy

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5.51 S2

to the harmony of beings - it is not [God

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5.51 S2

that which appears in beings, that which is called

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5.55 S2

occurs only to created beings. Thus one will call

🗏🗐

5.63 S1

In the contemplation of beings, there are ascents and

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6.1 S2

What the contemplation of beings is, the Holy Bible

🗏🗐

6.17 S2

by the contemplation of beings and by incorporeal nature

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6.30 S2

to the contemplation of beings.

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6.59 S2

of bodies and incorporeal [beings]; and the other urges

🗏🗐

Skemmata

1

the logoi of incorporeal [being]s.

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18

essence. While in incorporeal [beings] there is only equality

🗏🗐

18

designation that indicates the being of the subject; but

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18

the case of incorporeal [beings], although we [may] speak

🗏🗐

21

bodily pain for human beings.

🗏🗐

40

accompany us as living beings [animals], others as human

🗏🗐

40

animals], others as human beings. [Accompanying us] as living

🗏🗐

40

Accompanying us] as living beings are those that arise

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40

Accompanying us] as human beings are those arising from

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40

us both] as living beings and human beings.

🗏🗐

40

living beings and human beings.

🗏🗐

Monks

119.1

what has come into being

🗏🗐

134.1

Holy Trinity is [a] created [being] blasphemes God,

🗏🗐

136.1

Knowledge of incorporeal [beings] elevates the nous

🗏🗐

Ep fid

18

on, complain of His being poor? This is why

🗏🗐

27

according to the œconomy. Being made and being created

🗏🗐

28

unsubjected, and about His being made sin for us

🗏🗐

28

our infirmities is not being subject, and He bare

🗏🗐

33

evolution from non-being into being. The second is change

🗏🗐

38

about bodiless and immaterial being. It seems to me

🗏🗐

38

the case of their being in any way diseased

🗏🗐

On Prayer

58

knowledge of noetic (intelligible) beings [i.e angels] and

🗏🗐

80

what has come into being.

🗏🗐

122

who regards every human being as God, after God

🗏🗐

Prak

81

is begotten by right belief. Belief is an indwelling

🗏🗐

81

begotten by right belief. Belief is an indwelling good

🗏🗐

Prak

pref.1

Egyptian monks - for you believe it to be neither

🗏🗐

pref.3

possible for you to believe, it says, when you

🗏🗐

14

s help [2] and to believe that the soul is

🗏🗐

59

it I do not believe it is always the

🗏🗐

81

who have not yet believed in God.

🗏🗐

KG

5.6 S2

if those who have believed in Christ have approached

🗏🗐

5.6 S2

come] those who have believed in Christ, that from

🗏🗐

5.56 S1

not the same; we believed, in fact, that it

🗏🗐

Ep

57.4

angels, with whom, I believe, is our revered father

🗏🗐

Ep fid

7

of bodily nature. We believe our Lord to be

🗏🗐

13

sent,” and again “Ye believe in God, believe also

🗏🗐

13

Ye believe in God, believe also in me.” Everywhere

🗏🗐

16

the evil one. I believe that even from this

🗏🗐

On Prayer

62

joy, then you may believe it has drawn near

🗏🗐

73

that [the nous] will believe it has perfectly achieved

🗏🗐

74

I believe the demon touches that

🗏🗐

76

the saints refers, I believe, to the grace that

🗏🗐

Instr

17

those who fill their belly.

🗏🗐

Prak

52

body from the soul belongs exclusively to him who

🗏🗐

52

soul from the body belongs to anyone who desires

🗏🗐

89

eagerly to endure afflictions belongs to Courage and Patience

🗏🗐

Gn.

44

logoi; for this latter belongs to wisdom alone, according

🗏🗐

KG

2.31 S2

received by those who belong to the first nature

🗏🗐

2.31 S2

life by those who belong to the second nature

🗏🗐

6.2 S2

some of those who belong to them; and we

🗏🗐

6.50 S2

part of this world belongs to corporeal nature; and

🗏🗐

6.50 S2

nature; and everything that belongs to corporal nature is

🗏🗐

6.85 S2

beasts have in common belong to corporeal nature, it

🗏🗐

Ep fid

35

inasmuch as the sword belongs to Him of whom

🗏🗐

KG

5.73 S1

meets a related and beloved contemplation.

🗏🗐

Ad virg.

7.1

you have as [your] beloved:

🗏🗐

Ep fid

4

Friends godly and well beloved, do, I implore you

🗏🗐

On Prayer

73

the form of things beloved by the senses, so

🗏🗐

Prak

pref.5

The belt tied around their loins

🗏🗐

KG

4.79 S2

The belt of the high priest

🗏🗐

On Prayer

pref.2

as the wise Jesus [Ben-Sirach] says, receive these chapters

🗏🗐

Prak

8

Contaminating the soul, it bends it down towards these

🗏🗐

Apophthegmata

7

at all upset and bending his head he replied

🗏🗐

KG

4.67 S2

Objects which fall beneath the soul through the

🗏🗐

4.81 S2

possess objects which fall beneath it.

🗏🗐

6.15 S2

puts all his enemies beneath his feet, all therefore

🗏🗐

6.76 S2

God those who are beneath them.

🗏🗐

On Prayer

135

stand, they will fall beneath my feet’ and so

🗏🗐

Sent alph II

16

is good to show beneficence to all, but more

🗏🗐

Assorted Chapters

18

The one beneficent towards the truly poor

🗏🗐

21

From their place the beneficent, who are like God

🗏🗐

Prak

15

more harmful and not beneficial.

🗏🗐

KG

6.75 S2

movement of freedom, the beneficial providence and the non-abandonment

🗏🗐

Sent alph I

18

rather those that are beneficial.

🗏🗐

Gn.

44

still others for the benefit of the simple.

🗏🗐

On Prayer

49

do not receive any benefit from praying.

🗏🗐

105

not lose the great benefit of your prayer through

🗏🗐

On Prayer

34

request; he wishes to benefit you even more as

🗏🗐

Prak

58

with all your power beseech God for the ability

🗏🗐

Prak

12

all the demons. It besets the monk at about

🗏🗐

KG

4.60 S2

into wakefulness as [if] beside angels, when the body

🗏🗐

Ep fid

10

There is no God beside me.”

🗏🗐

On Prayer

90

God, while it stands beside Him in reverence and

🗏🗐

Gn.

25

those who are still besieged by passions it is

🗏🗐

Prak

40

commandments we can, as best we are able. Regarding

🗏🗐

59

people who know this best are the ones who

🗏🗐

Gn.

14

who are among the best, reply if they question

🗏🗐

Ep fid

14

examine, and to the best of our ability explain

🗏🗐

KG

4.22 S2

through the virtues the bestial movements of the soul

🗏🗐

Prak

3

nous (mind/intellect) and bestowing incorruptibility upon it

🗏🗐

Gn.

6

the intellect is naturally betrayed by that which is

🗏🗐

On Prayer

1

intellect) will not be betrayed.

🗏🗐

Skemmata

12

Fear is betrayal of the thoughts that

🗏🗐

Prak

pref.3

assert that something is better than God!

🗏🗐

32

him that would be better than spiritual contemplation? But

🗏🗐

KG

1.73 S2

mercies of God are better than life.

🗏🗐

Monks

9.1

Better to be one among

🗏🗐

Ep fid

26

any one has a better interpretation to give, and

🗏🗐

29

worse and to the better is in his own

🗏🗐

33

the worse to the better. The third is the

🗏🗐

Sent alph I

2

It is better to throw a random

🗏🗐

6

Better the life lived with

🗏🗐

Sent alph II

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Unrefined gold is better than a friend as

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to lose what was better. He remembered the saying

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do, I implore you, beware of the shepherds of

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is not eternal? He bewitches our Patriarch’s sheep

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his form was deficient beyond all men.”

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judgment. Yet nothing is beyond the ken of the

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holy disciples, after getting beyond the limits of human

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be

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Ben-Sirach

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