Guide to Evagrius Ponticus

edited by Joel Kalvesmaki


so

sociable

Prak
22
then they make us sociable and call us grim

society

Ep fid
3
I do hold the society of the saints most

soft

Ep fid
38
and savours, nor touch, soft and hard, hot and

soften

KG
6.41 S2
The complete withdrawal softens the concupiscible portion of

sojourn

Ep fid
15
For all His mystic sojourn among us He called

sole

KG
2.53 S2
who solely has the sole [-begotten].
Skemmata
27
nous [illuminated] by the sole light of the Blessed

solely

Gn.
2
one who is concerned solely with the achievement of
40
that which is known solely by Christ.
KG
2.53 S2
is adorable, he who solely has the sole [-begotten
3.15 S2
if immaterial knowledge is solely the Trinity, it is
4.77 S2
Trinity, for it is solely essential knowledge.
5.56 S2
we that it is solely essential knowledge.
5.61 S2
Trinity; because it is solely essential contemplation.
Skemmata
39
to [his] reason (dianoia) solely on account of its
On Prayer
28
Do not pray solely with external postures, but

solitary

KG
5.86 S2
The solitary who loves vainglory is
Monks
9.2
than solitary, accompanied by hatred, in
On Prayer
111
Another holy solitary in the desert was

solitude

Prak
15
by [1] hunger, [2] toil, and [3] solitude. Churning thumos (indignation) is
Monks
8.1
Withdrawal [into solitude] in love purifies the
8.2
while withdrawal [into solitude] accompanied by hatred agitates

Solomon

KG
4.67 S2
the words of wise Solomon, the light of the
6.87 S2
to the saying of Solomon, is joined to the
Ep fid
27
as is said through Solomon the Wise in the
34
It is also called Solomon’s temple, but this
39
is given us by Solomon the wise, who in

someone

KG
1.69 S1
leads in knowledge has someone after him; but he
3.47 S2
his order. Indeed, should someone say that there is
4.35 S2
sustasis of the world. Someone has said that their
5.18 S2
no such logoi, as someone has said.
6.16 S2
or "two Sons" resembles someone who calls the sage
6.31 S2
has been begotten by someone, as by a father
6.32 S2
has been engendered by someone (as by a creator
On Prayer
137
If you help someone you [may] be harmed

something

Prak
pref.3
consider and assert that something is better than God
48
things. The mind is something which is easily moved
97
feed the hungry, saying something worth remembering β€˜I have
KG
1.32 S2
Those who have seen something of that which is
1.39 S2
were not receptive of something would we have [within
1.87 S1
that was created for something else is less than
2.1 S2
nothing [and have] become something.
3.31 S2
of the quality of [something]composed of neither form
5.3 S2
the last world see something of the luminous rays
5.26 S2
thing as to understand something concerning God.
5.50 S2
in the beginning became something out of nothing.
6.52 S2
by demons to perform something forbidden by God.
Skemmata
13
secretly says or does something lawlessly to an idol
Ep fid
14
whatever lives because of something else cannot be self-existent
On Prayer
32
often prayed, requesting that something I thought was good
137
to say or do something improper to another. And

sometimes

Prak
7
have suffered these things. Sometimes it even deceives those
10
Sadness sometimes arises from frustrated desires
10
from frustrated desires; but sometimes it is the result
11
the distressing person. Then sometimes it is lingering and
13
to the previous hopes Sometimes it also hands over
Gn.
23
It is necessary sometimes to feign ignorance because
KG
2.27 S2
it considers the intelligibles, sometimes receives their vision separately
2.27 S2
their vision separately, and sometimes also becomes a seer
6.3 S2
languages, by clothes and sometimes also by qualities. The
Skemmata
22
The mind sometimes moves from one thought
22
thought to another thought, sometimes from one contemplation to
On Prayer
68
of the enemies. For sometimes while you are praying
134
Sometimes the demons suggest [tempting

somewhere

KG
1.43 S1
and He is not somewhere; He is everywhere, because
1.43 S1
but He is not somewhere, because He is not

son

KG
1.31 S2
it is among the sons of Israel and among
3.1 S2
the Christ, and the Son alone [knows] the Father
6.4 S2
is considered before the Son as Father, before the
6.16 S2
two Christs" or "two Sons" resembles someone who calls
6.34 S2
the image of his Son , if the image of
6.34 S2
the image of the Son is essential knowledge of
6.64 S2
sensible exodus of the sons of Israel he has
Monks
2.1
good father trains his sons;
Ep
57.3
the sickness of the son disheartens the father, so
57.3
the sickness of his son, summons a physician. But
57.5
father Abraham and his sons sleep. And I shall
Ep fid
4
Father is God, the Son God, and the Holy
8
therefore confesses either the Son of God or the
8
of evil. But the Son and the Holy Ghost
9
doctrine speak of the Son as neither like, nor
9
substance, Who begat the Son, God in substance. From
11
mark distinction from the Son and the Holy Ghost
12
to preach that the Son is God and the
16
the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father is
16
be greater than the Son, then the Son is
16
the Son, then the Son is of the same
18
because the carpenter’s son had no bed to
18
This is why the Son is less than the
24
and not to the Son Himself, He is not
28
Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject
29
mean the words β€œThe Son can do nothing of
29
own power, but the Son can do nothing of
29
distinctly declaratory of the Son’s being of the
29
of Himself, then the Son is not a creature
29
he likes. But the Son does what He wills
29
in earth. Therefore the Son is not a creature
29
and immaterial. Therefore the Son is not a creature
29
of contraries. But the Son is very righteousness, and
32
the Father and the Son?
33
the Father and the Son. There is a bringing
33
Father and of the Son and of the Holy
33
the Father and the Son. And what would you
35
the Father and the Son.
40
to the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost
On Prayer
59
Spirit and your only-begotten Son. For He taught you
Apophthegmata
1
the Father and His Son, the angels and archangels
Instr
14
Lawless sons scatter wealth, and the

song

Prak
71
The demonic songs move our desire and
71
and hymns and spiritual songs” summon the nous to

soon

Prak
36
of the body leave sooner. Other demons are like
Sent alph I
15
damages himself, for as soon as he utters evil
On Prayer
88
he will do it soon. So be of good
106
to him that, as soon as [the holy one

soothe

On Prayer
50
is salvific and very soothing for us.
64
through the nous he soothes the body’s disharmony

sorrow

Prak
22
the cause of the sorrow and freeing ourselves from
Skemmata
51
tempting-]thought of deep sorrow [depression].
Monks
14.2
not cause his neighbor sorrow.
41.2
will be grasped by sorrow.
On Prayer
22
Those who heap up sorrow and memory of injury
Exhortations to Monks
1.4
endurance with tears; Worldly sorrow is silenced by hatred

sorrowful

On Prayer
10
them, it becomes very sorrowful and disheartened. Then when

sorry

Ep fid
1
confess. I should be sorry to deny it; since
On Prayer
32
for, I was very sorry I had asked for

sort

Prak
8
it down towards these sorts of deeds: it makes
24
to struggle for any sort of pleasure. For this
Gn.
25
touch books of this sort, for they are not
On Prayer
24
against matters of the sort that cause you to
74
divine, essential knowledge. This sort of person is not
98
the times of these sorts of temptations employ brief

soul

Prak
pref.6
the wickedness of the soul by their communion in
2
apatheia (dispassion) of the soul together with true knowledge
6
able to disturb the soul or not is not
8
achieving nothing. Contaminating the soul, it bends it down
10
thoughts first sieze the soul and remind it of
10
When they see the soul following them without resistance
10
life Then the miserable soul, having been dissipated by
11
wrongdoer: it causes the soul to be savage all
12
the morning, encircling his soul until about the eighth
12
after its struggle the soul is taken over by
14
of pride conducts the soul to its worst fall
14
to believe that the soul is responsible for its
16
When our soul desires a variety of
21
by night, terrify the soul and make the nous
22
irascible part of our soul (thumikon) seizes on some
23
the one darkens the soul, the other summons it
23
young deer, tears the soul to pieces .
27
should tearfully divide our soul in two, making one
27
are you depressed, my soul, why do you disturb
28
the quality of the soul. Running away from such
35
The passions of the soul derive from men; the
35
self-control; those of the soul are cut back by
36
the passions of the soul go on until we
36
one part of the soul; but the noonday demon
36
generally enfolds the whole soul and suffocates the mind
39
stench in demons, the soul is ordinarily enflamed against
42
you: for when your soul is acted upon by
44
and devastate the poor soul
45
the destruction of the soul.
47
that are affecting the soul is some word which
47
the enemies of the soul perceive whether we have
49
the part of the soul in which the passions
49
the powers of the soul.
52
the body from the soul belongs exclusively to him
52
but to separate the soul from the body belongs
53
obtained passionlessness of the soul by means of the
54
desiring part of the soul (epithumetikon) through dreams, show
54
desiring] part of [our soul] and passion prevails. And
55
they show that the soul is to some extent
56
we shall call the soul’s health, and the
56
s health, and the soul’s food is knowledge
57
in number are the soul's peaceful states: [A] the
58
should both attack the soul at the same time
59
The more the soul progresses, the greater the
60
into being in the soul after it has defeated
66
irrational part of the soul, because knowledge catches it
67
The soul possesses apatheia not when
71
desire and throw the soul into shameful fantasies. But
73
the powers of the soul to work in accordance
74
passionate part of the soul and darkens the mind
76
latter to cast the soul into lewd fantasies.
78
passionate part of the soul.
79
the powers of the soul, unless their [corresponding] contemplations
82
The soul becomes aware of our
84
passionate part Of the soul are said to oppose
85
virtues both purify the soul and remain with it
86
The rational soul operates naturally when its
89
parts does the rational soul consist, according to our
89
the Whole of the Soul [it] is justice. [1A
89
different] parts of the soul.
93
that we ruin the soul’s power of memory
98
the powers of the soul. It is like sunlight
Gn.
2
the portion of the soul subject to compulsions.
7
the branches of his soul. Because in all things
14
passionate part of the soul and the rational part
25
it is when the soul is [only] with difficulty
31
the demons of the soul, and against the latter
36
suffering of the reasoning soul condemned to ignorance.
KG
1.21 S2
are found in the soul and others outside it
1.25 S2
thoughtful part of the soul, or striving to seize
1.37 S1
dispassion of the reasoning soul, which is produced by
1.37 S2
apatheia of the reasoning soul, produced by the grace
1.41 S1
and sickness of the soul, in effect, is evil
1.41 S2
and sickness of the soul are evil, and virtue
1.45 S2
in bodies; for our soul[nous?] is incorporeal.
1.47 S1
in power in the soul which similarly could be
1.47 S2
in power in the soul is able to leave
1.47 S2
subsist independently, for [the soul] was by its nature
1.48 S1
engendered them. But the soul, by the liberty which
1.48 S2
is attached to the soul.
1.59 S1
same for the reasonable soul virtue and evil, knowledge
1.59 S2
united with the rational soul.
1.67 S2
this organ of the soul? And who can investigate
1.67 S2
chariot for the reasoning soul, which strives to attain
1.70 S2
attained apatheia of his soul is justly to be
1.77 S2
the [sign] of the soul. And the [sign of
1.78 S1
is done in the soul, is such: that with
1.81 S1
and light of the soul is its apatheia.
1.81 S2
and light of the soul isapatheia.
1.86 S1
state of the reasonable soul, which in this cannot
1.86 S2
state of the reasoning soul, for in it one
2.5 S2
of beings; and the soul of what is, is
2.5 S2
He who knows the soul is called soul of
2.5 S2
the soul is called soul of that which is
2.5 S2
named body of that soul.
2.6 S1
The praktike soul that by the grace
2.6 S2
The praktike soul which, by the grace
2.7 S2
For the soul of heirs, after death
2.8 S2
The wealth of the soul is knowledge, and its
2.8 S2
the health of the soul [precedes] its sickness. [Letter
2.9 S2
the powers of the soul, and how the former
2.29 S2
nous potentially posseses the soul, when it is entirely
2.32 S1
themselves that make the soul grow, but the varieties
2.32 S2
objects that make the soul grow, but rather their
2.48 S2
the organon of the soul, it falls on demons
2.56 S2
The nous teaches the soul, and the soul the
2.56 S2
the soul, and the soul the body; and only
2.80 S2
this organon of the soul;highly varied is that
2.82 S2
but only those of souls which are naturally suitable
3.14 S2
The deficient soul is that whose power
3.16 S2
The perfect soul is one whose passible
3.18 S2
passible part of the soul.
3.28 S2
The soul is the nous which
3.46 S2
that knowledge concerning the soul’s infirmities which effected
3.59 S1
three parts of the soul, that is by the
3.60 S2
the West’ of the souls which are in Sheol
3.89 S2
them, so also the soul, which is begotten by
4.22 S2
bestial movements of the soul, so do those who
4.22 S2
natural activities of the soul.
4.28 S2
state of the reasoning soul which is constituted by
4.32 S2
concupiscible part of the soul.
4.44 S2
rest of the reasoning soul, in which it is
4.55 S1
exact face of the soul.
4.55 S2
the face of the soul. .
4.56 S2
state of the reasoning soul, in which a man
4.60 S2
this body of our soul: who will demonstrate the
4.62 S2
give to the dead soul for contemplation, those who
4.63 S2
knowledge, which conducts the soul of the praktikoi.
4.67 S1
sensible things move the soul to make it take
4.67 S2
which fall beneath the soul through the senses move
4.68 S2
This body of the soul is the image of
4.70 S2
Flee from prison, my soul: but to those empowered
4.70 S2
empowered by purity of soul, to give themselves over
4.75 S1
the justice of the soul, by which it is
4.75 S2
intelligible ephod is the soul’s justice, through which
4.82 S2
body of the passible soul, which delivers it from
4.85 S2
demons prevail over the soul when the passions are
4.90 S2
God requires not a soul[skilled in] dialectic, but
4.90 S2
sees: for while impure souls may become dialecticians, seeing
5.5 S2
passible part of the soul, one of them by
5.22 S2
The resurrection of soul is the return from
5.28 S2
the body from the soul, or the vice and
5.31 S2
passible part of the soul.
5.33 S2
the virtues of his soul; and the wretch, on
5.34 S2
intelligent part of the soul.
5.37 S2
teaching that draws the soul from the depth of
5.39 S1
purify with care his soul of all passions.
5.41 S2
One in whose soul the intelligible world is
5.43 S2
state of the reasoning soul, on which the nous
5.45 S2
head of the the soul, and virtues are signified
5.64 S2
there, so the impassible soul (remains without being stained
5.66 S2
passible part of its soul to its proper virtues
5.77 S2
virtues of the reasoning soul and praktike which have
5.82 S2
is apatheia of the soul, which the demons do
6.21 S2
state of the reasoning soul in which it is
6.24 S2
that can impel reasoning souls from vice to virtue
6.41 S2
concupiscible portion of the soul and renders hard the
6.46 S2
kithara is the praktike soul moved by the commandments
6.51 S2
all powers of the soul the reasoning part is
6.52 S2
are hidden in our souls which, when they escape
6.53 S2
passible part of the soul.
6.55 S2
passible part of the soul.
6.62 S2
Sterile is the reasoning soul that is always learning
6.79 S1
with our body; his soul also is of the
6.79 S1
the nature of our souls; in the same way
6.79 S2
the nature of our souls; but the Word which
6.79 S2
our body, and his soul is of the nature
6.84 S2
choleric part of the soul is joined with the
6.90 S2
and will return reasoning souls from vice to virtue
Skemmata
3
state of the reasoning soul composed of gentleness and
8
a power of the soul destructive of [tempting-]thoughts
24
left eye of the soul, which is given over
25
is therefore the reasoning soul, and his dwelling [is
37
the power of the soul that destroys anger.
48
the fallen [lit. β€˜moved’] soul, while others arise externally
Monks
4.1
the Lord guards the soul.
7.2
chastity is in the souls of the temperate.
10.1
of injury in his soul
15.5
this you deliver your soul
40.2
is resurrection of the soul.
137.2
not forget my humble soul at the time of
Ad virg.
6.2
not arise in your soul;
Ep
57.2
and of the rational soul; (c) . . . of why souls
57.2
soul; (c) . . . of why souls are bound by bodies
57.3
the Father of the soul. In the same way
57.3
the disorder of the soul disheartens God. A father
57.3
the physician of our souls so that he might
Ep fid
4
not to teach simple souls lessons drawn from Holy
6
composed of body and soul is not simple. Similarly
15
of theology, whereby our soul is nourished and is
37
said, into a malicious soul Wisdom shall not enter
Sent alph I
7
one who nourishes the soul.
17
strengthens the body, the soul [is strengthened] by the
22
man, but rather [his] soul's thoughts and purposes
Sent alph II
7
The soul’s noble birth shines
13
a sickness of the soul.
18
Temperance and gentleness of soul are the cherubim
20
Pinnacle of the soulβ€”true contemplation.
23
A pure soulβ€”God after God.
Assorted Chapters
11
cistern without waterβ€”the soul that loves fame.
12
The proud soulβ€”an inn of thieves
15
unbreakable toolβ€”a humble soul.
23
But the apathetic soul will not have such
On Prayer
2
A soul purified through the fullness
5
savagery inherent in your soul, and by confessing your
12
lawless movement of your soul will be quieted.
20
do not sadden any soul, otherwise you are running
31
and profitable for the soul; but that is not
43
compunction and distress of soul, as you confess your
92
do not let your soul by completely defeated. Instead
96
spite will accost your soul and β€˜the scourge will
101
is nourishment] for the soul, so spiritual prayer is
110
your flesh and your soul, and live according to
132
of those of the soul, and they in turn
145
and uncovered. Such a soul, it says, ought to
Exhortations to Monks
1.7
Loquacity disturbs a soul; immoderate napping thickens the
1.13
while tears wipe the soul clean of sins, after
Apophthegmata
1
the state of the souls down there, their painful
1
and the tears their souls shed eternally. But keep
4
no fault in your soul.
Instr
4
remembering-past-wrongs thought in its soul.
15
same thing saddens the souls of the unjust.

sound (adj.)

Ep fid
18
bring back safe and sound to his own land

sound (n.)

Ep fid
38
nor hearing to apprehend sound and speech, nor smell
Assorted Chapters
12
of thievesβ€”hates the sound of knowledge.

soundly

On Prayer
30
found greatly relieved, praying soundly. But at other times

source

Gn.
17
this, indeed, is the source [and the beginning] of
KG
1.83 S2
know the three other sources and the river from
1.83 S2
from which the four sources are separated.
5.67 S2
which flows from the source of life.
5.72 S1
divided from only one source, let us understand with
5.72 S2
If the four sources came from only one
Ep fid
8
Holy Ghost are the source of sanctification by which
On Prayer
148
you will be a source of laughter for them

sow

Prak
27
part encourage the other, sowing good hopes in ourselves
90
The fruit of sowing is sheaves, and the
90
And as tears accompany sowing, so joy accompanies reaping
Gn.
44
rejection of what is sown secondarily - this is the
KG
3.27 S2
which it know is sown to be inseparable.
6.26 S2
that the Creator has sown there.
6.60 S2
or which lacks seeds sown by the Holy Spirit

sower

Gn.
44
reception of the first sower’s seed and the