Guide to Evagrius Ponticus

Paris. Gr. 923, fol. 290r

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6.25 S2

When demons are unable to move[tempting-]thoughts

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Skemmata

The mind is unable to see the ‘place

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Sent alph II

more so to those unable to return the favour

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On Prayer

the malevolent demon is unable to hinder the prayer

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the spiteful demon is unable to move the memory

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111

mat. They were completely unable to even briefly bring

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135

and they will be unable to stand, they will

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unavailability

Prak

lack of necessities, and unavailability of physicians. It often

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unaware

Gn.

[Although] unaware of it, he is

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4.33 S2

they then extract them unawares, from their bodies, so

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Ep fid

not choke your wills unawares; let them not befoul

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number or creature introduces unawares a material and circumscribed

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unbalanced

Exhortations to Monks

1.9

Unbalanced laughter obliterates a humble

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unbegotten

Ep fid

is introducing the terms “unbegotten” and “begotten” into our

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unbreakable

Assorted Chapters

An unbreakable tool—a humble soul

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uncircumcised

Ep fid

deceived by stony-hearted and uncircumcised men, whose weapons are

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uncircumscribed

4.88 S2

while the third appears uncircumscribed.

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uncivilized

Prak

call us grim and uncivilized, to make us desire

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unclean

Gn.

the clean and the unclean, the sun that "rises

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Skemmata

Of the unclean [tempting-]thoughts: some depict

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On Prayer

Isaiah, wretched, like an unclean person with unclean lips

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an unclean person with unclean lips, living in the

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of a people similarly [unclean] So how in the

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God to consort with unclean demons

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see light and the unclean [man] will not attain

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uncontrollable

1.85 S1

to say it is uncontrollable when it achieves its

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uncontrolled

1.85 S2

when impassioned, and is uncontrolled when it attains the

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uncovered

On Prayer

145

his head bare and uncovered. Such a soul, it

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uncreated

6.5 S2

The Uncreated is one before whom

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Ep fid

forth the holy and uncreated essence and substance of

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underlying

4.87 S2

contemplation appears with an underlying object, except for the

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Skemmata

there are no different underlying objects as in [other

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Ep fid

there is another sense underlying the expression. In what

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undermines

Exhortations to Monks

1.8

Roaming desire undermines the nous’ innocence.

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understand

Prak

a] prudence and[1b] understanding and[1c] wisdom; [2] in

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B] [The task] of Understanding: to direct harmoniously all

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Gn.

The ascetics will understand the deep purposes of

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for they do not understand the suffering of the

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1.32 S2

covenants and did not understand those who are born

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1.67 S2

elements? And who can understand the composition of this

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1.70 S2

fourth is one who understands the contemplation of the

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1.88 S1

Natural knowledge is true understanding of those created for

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1.88 S2

Natural knowledge is true understanding of those who were

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1.89 S1

was naturally made to understand true knowledge, and God

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2.9 S2

of the commandments? Who understands the powers of the

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2.11 S2

possible for us to understand what is a nature

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2.11 S2

Blessed Trinity, nor to understand the Unity, essential knowledge

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2.45 S1

only the nous has understanding of both both the

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2.65 S2

possible for us to understand the multitude of worlds

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5.26 S2

same thing as to understand something concerning God.

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5.43 S2

encounter objects and will understand their logoi.

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5.60 S2

power which knows and understands Blessed Trinity.

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5.72 S1

one source, let us understand with discernment their exits

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Ep fid

by those who have understood them in their highest

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and mortal. So we understand these words to be

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words I do not understand to refer to the

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am the life.” I understand the life lived because

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Sent alph II

is an impediment to understanding.

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On Prayer

pref.2

letter; [1] and in spirit. Understand that nous (intellect) takes

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immaterial; and you will understand.

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offered ‘Bowl’ (phialên) is understood to mean the friendship

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undisturbed, Sing psalms: [1] with understanding and [2] good rhythm; then

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undertake

Prak

demons, or [able] to undertake all their evil doings

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and force us to undertake what is not possible

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3.82 S2

who by knowledge can undertake an examination of them

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undeviating

On Prayer

of the nous to undeviating activity.

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undistracted

On Prayer

Undistracted prayer is the highest

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undisturbed

Prak

but when it remains undisturbed by the memory of

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On Prayer

be able to pray undisturbed. For memory of injury

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are praying purely and undisturbed, suddenly there stands before

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Pray: [1] gently and [2] undisturbed, Sing psalms: [1] with understanding

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Then you will be undisturbed and thankful in your

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108

his feet; but he, undisturbed, made for them a

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Exhortations to Monks

1.6

water unless it remain undisturbed, even so a monk

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unformed

Skemmata

receives] both forms and unformed [thoughts]; the mind [logos

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ungodly

3.50 S2

darkened.. [judgment] for the ungodly is the change from

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ungrateful

Ep fid

also employed by the ungrateful creatures, the brood of

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unguarded

On Prayer

not leave your work unguarded after your labor, otherwise

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unharmed

Prak

on men, but remain unharmed if we resent demons

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5.31 S2

practical knowledge that guards unharmed the passible part of

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5.34 S2

spiritual knowledge that guards unharmed the intelligent part of

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unhealthy

6.63 S2

those whose vision is unhealthy and who look the

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unhonored

Instr

and a rock is unhonored in a gold ring

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uniform

On Prayer

prelude to immaterial and uniform knowledge.

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unimpeded

Prak

pref.4

permits them to work unimpeded.

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union

Prak

natural basis for our union with incorporeal beings is

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4.9 S2

free from (or "for"?) union.

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4.57 S2

wine of the[marital] union, and by eyes of

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4.89 S2

varied worlds to the union of the Holy Unity

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6.14 S2

and by th[at] union he is connatural with

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unique

1.12 S2

One ["unique"] is he who is

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3.1 S2

Father, the latter as unique[?only-begotten?] in the Unity

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3.1 S2

and Unity. (Mt.11:27) (for unique see also I,12; IV

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3.45 S2

two organa is one ("unique").

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3.47 S2

One [‘unique’] is the change that

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5.62 S1

is in fact, a unique essence, which in everything

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unit

6.13 S2

constituted by addition of units without substance; but it

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6.13 S2

by addition of such units that the Blessed Trinity

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unite

Prak

exclusively to him who united them; but to separate

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we shall ordinarily be united with the holy powers

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1.59 S2

knowledge and ignorance, are united with the rational soul

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1.62 S2

receptive of it is united to one the second

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1.77 S2

the Christ who is united to the knowledge of

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1.84 S2

Knowledge and ignorance are united in the nous, while

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3.6 S2

which concerns it, is united to knowledge of the

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3.13 S2

wisdom of the Unity, united to the nature that

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3.37 S2

some of them are united to the interior of

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3.78 S2

are not able to unite the angels more [closely

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4.9 S2

who inherits is thus united to the inheritance; and

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4.18 S2

is he who is united to this knowledge. 3 And

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5.49 S2

or he who is united to evil.

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5.66 S2

the nous is not united to knowledge until it

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5.66 S2

knowledge until it has united the passible part of

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6.29 S2

reasoning nature that is united to the knowledge of

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6.30 S2

reasoning nature that is united to the contemplation of

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6.51 S2

alone acts with[?is united to?] wisdom - the first

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6.55 S2

it is no longer united to the logismos that

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unity

Gn.

or seen as The Unity. But if it is

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1.49 S1

It is not the Unity which apart from itself

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1.54 S1

the knowledge of the Unity of the Holy Trinity

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1.65 S2

place. But in the Unity nothing like this occurs

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1.71 S1

the knowledge of holy Unity; but to incomprehensibility, as

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1.71 S2

knowledge is the holy Unity, but ignorance has no

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1.77 S2

the knowledge of the Unity.

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2.3 S2

Monad and of the Unity, and more ancient than

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2.5 S2

is knowledge of the Unity. He who knows the

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2.11 S2

nor to understand the Unity, essential knowledge.

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3.1 S2

unique[?only-begotten?] in the Unity, and the former as

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3.1 S2

former as Monad and Unity. (Mt.11:27) (for unique see

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3.2 S2

has within himself the Unity and has received the

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3.3 S2

The Unity is what is now

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3.11 S2

the wisdom of the Unity and is receptive of

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3.11 S2

is receptive of the Unity.

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3.13 S2

the wisdom of the Unity, united to the nature

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3.13 S2

below it; but the Unity itself cannot be seen

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3.22 S2

the nous from the Unity that is in it

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3.28 S2

has fallen from the Unity; and through its carelessness

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3.31 S2

to speak of the unity of the nous; but

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3.32 S2

become susceptible of the Unity - this is the Image

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3.33 S2

makes known the natural unity of the nous and

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3.61 S2

it see) the Blessed Unity.

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3.72 S2

is knowledge of the Unity; and if all become

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3.72 S2

will know the blessed Unity. But it is not

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4.8 S2

who arrives in the Unity and delights in contemplation

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4.18 S2

knowledge of the holy Unity, 2 and the Christ is

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4.21 S2

indicates knowledge of the Unity or [it] designates the

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4.21 S2

with knowledge of the Unity. Because of this, he

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4.21 S2

the Monad and the Unity.

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4.27 S2

it possible that the Unity could be imprinted in

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4.43 S2

the knowledge of the Unity, the ladder is the

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4.51 S2

necessity. But, in the Unity there will not be

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4.89 S2

union of the Holy Unity?

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5.84 S2

seer of the blessed Unity, and the altar of

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Ep fid

circumscribed nature. Monad and Unity on the other hand

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of the One-ness and Unity, knowledge of which He

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contemplates the One-ness and Unity of the Word. But

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in the in-dwelling of Unity.

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fallen away from the Unity and had cast from

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universally

Ep fid

nature; but God is universally confessed to be simple

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universe

On Prayer

pref.3

orderly arrangement of the universe. So, while the number

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Almighty, creator of the universe, provident [administrator] of all

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unjust

2.18 S2

with the logikoi is unjust, because it is with

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Skemmata

ascetical nous, hunting down unjust [tempting-]thoughts.

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some depict God as unjust, others as prejudiced, others

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mercy. [Depicting God as] unjust are those arising from

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Assorted Chapters

Unjust judge—pollution of the

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the greed of an unjust man is insatiable.

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the souls of the unjust.

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unjustly

Gn.

he will have acted unjustly.

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On Prayer

137

if having been treated unjustly, to say or do

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unknown

Ep fid

Lord declared to be unknown to His angels and

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unlawful

Prak

it is faced with unlawful imaginings.

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unleavened

4.28 S2

The intelligible unleavened loaves are the state

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unless

Prak

pref.2

meaning of the psalm], Unless the Lord builds the

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Unless it sets straight what

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powers of the soul, unless their [corresponding] contemplations succeed

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Gn.

anything spiritual in them, unless through his divine plan

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but not concerning doctrine, unless there are found some

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3.69 S2

anything else be constituted, unless this is also receptive

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3.72 S2

to become his coheirs unless they have previously become

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Skemmata

of God’ in itself unless it has been raised

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not be raised higher unless it has put aside

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Exhortations to Monks

1.5

and ashes’, and again, ‘Unless the Lord builds the

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1.6

to purify agitated water unless it remain undisturbed, even

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unlike

Ep fid

as neither like, nor unlike the Father. Each of

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impossible, for like and unlike are predicated in relation

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unlimited

3.63 S2

he whose ignorance is unlimited; his knowledge is also

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3.63 S2

his knowledge is also unlimited.

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unmerciful

Skemmata

first pride; and as unmerciful, the rest.

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unmixed

2.35 S1

in the holy and unmixed fragrance, while the palate

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unmoved

Prak

not when it is unmoved by matters, but when

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unpleasant

Ep fid

nor smell, pleasant and unpleasant scents, nor taste, flavours

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On Prayer

who is patient with unpleasant things will not lack

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unreal

Ep fid

but to except the unreal gods falsely so called

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unreasonableness

Ep fid

which he in his unreasonableness was fed by the

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unrefined

Sent alph II

Unrefined gold is better than

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unrighteousness

Ep fid

to be ignorant of unrighteousness and wickedness; for God

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created us is not unrighteousness and wickedness.

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unseen

On Prayer

to guard you’, and unseen they will chase away

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unshakable

Prak

pref.8

latter [virtue] is made unshakable by patient endurance and

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unspeakable

Prak

peaceful condition and by unspeakable joy

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1.65 S2

this occurs: it is unspeakable peace, and there are

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Ep fid

third heaven and “heard unspeakable words which it is

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Exhortations to Monks

1.14

achieve is virtue, but unspeakable is the glory of

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unspoiled

2.86 S2

and their drink is unspoiled. (cf. Ex 25:50; Heb. 9:2)

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unstained

5.64 S2

as a mirror remains unstained by images that are

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unsubjected

Ep fid

heretics say about God unsubjected, and about His being

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sir, of God called unsubjected? For He makes thy

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goodness He calls himself unsubjected. In this sense too

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untimely

Prak

measure. What is done untimely or without measure is

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untrue

4.25 S2

is the sign of untrue doctrines and logoi . The

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untruly

Ep fid

favour, in the latter untruly. God alone is substantially

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unveiled

Ep fid

approach even the actual unveiled Godhead.

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unwaveringly

On Prayer

capable of stretching out unwaveringly toward its own Master

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nous is praying purely unwaveringly, and truly, [completely] apart