Guide to Evagrius Ponticus

Prak

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body, cutting back the wickedness of the soul by

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know the decrease of wickedness and the disappearance of

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as a result of wickedness. And everything used contrary

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as a result of wickedness,that, it is said

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away to an inordinate wickedness those who will now

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of natures, except their wickedness. (N.B.

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transgressed the borders of wickedness, and because of that

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and draw men from wickedness to virtue and from

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ignorant of unrighteousness and wickedness; for God who created

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is not unrighteousness and wickedness.

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Monks

135.1

Contemplations of worlds widen the heart

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will feed orphans and widows not in the eighth

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are no orphans and widows.

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On Prayer

pref.4

far from rejecting the widow’s two coins, welcomed

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now dwell in the width have been given the

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On Prayer

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you are fiery* in wielding the staff of supplication

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he traveled with two wives. He spoke the truth

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56

arising] from father, mother, wife, and children.

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we are bitten by wild beasts.

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On Prayer

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come upon you like [wild] beasts and injure your

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

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will easily recognise the wiles of the enemies.

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first by their genesis will be delivered only from

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the deliverance from all will be achieved when the

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be achieved when the will of the Lord of

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the Lord of all will have occurred

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the affair of the will of the Creator; but

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exist depends on the will of the Creator; but

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the affair of their will

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depends on their own will, as does [the question

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of God accompanies free will; but his judgment considers

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the consent of the will of the reasoning nature

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of the Apostles, “When wilt thou restore the kingdom

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On Prayer

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pray that what you will should be done, because

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be done, because your [will] is not in full

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full harmony with the will of God. Pray instead

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taught, saying, Let your will be done in me

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this way that his will be done. He wills

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will be done. He wills [only] what is good

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Exhortations to Monks

1.15

does not perform it will receive a severe beating

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beating for knowing the will of the Lord but

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the words of God will be punished as disobedient

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hears and performs the will of the Lord is

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is blessed, for he will become a partaker of

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Skemmata

29

A vow is a willing promise of good things

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On Prayer

81

us, we are not willing even to supplicate God

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we are negligent and [willingly] receive opposing [tempting-] thoughts

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73

It is impossible to win wisdom without fighting, and

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become adults, they will win over ignorance.

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it is accustomed to win fame in works of

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man is accustomed to win fame in works and

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On Prayer

104

you yourself will not win forgiveness. For it says

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Monks

13.1

A strong wind chases clouds away;

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12

looking out of his window and forces him to

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98

given shape by the windows it passes through

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the sign of the windows, by which the nous

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we shall drink his wine, which makes glad the

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of loaves, by the wine of the[marital] union

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the first cup resembles wine, that is the knowledge

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of dragons is their wine and if the Nazarenes

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the law abstain from wine, the law has therefore

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Ad virg.

10.1

decent, nor is drinking wine good;

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Sent alph I

17

While wine strengthens the body, the

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On Prayer

22

it into a perforated wine-jar.

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KG

2.6 S1

of knowledge where the wings of its apatheia will

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of knowledge which the wings of its apatheia provide

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heirs, after death, these[wings] will [prove to] have

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Spiritual knowledge is the ‘wings’ of the nous; the

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the nous of the wings. And if this is

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the beating of their wings; and those who draw

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‘In the wink of an eye’ Cherubs

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Assorted Chapters

3

The winnower of virtue is the

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Exhortations to Monks

1.13

cultivate tears, while tears wipe the soul clean of

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1.13

fashion of a whetstone wiping the rust from iron

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Repose is connected with wisdom, toil with prudence It

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is impossible to win wisdom without fighting, and it

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preparing the way for wisdom.

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b] understanding and[1c] wisdom; [2] in the Concupiscible part

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C] [The task] of Wisdom: contemplation of the logoi

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Gn.

44

this latter belongs to wisdom alone, according to the

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Lord made everything with wisdom.

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produced is by His "wisdom full of variety"; but

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exists by his manifold wisdom.. He is not in

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2.1 S2

his power and his wisdom, [these are] the things

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we see "the manifold wisdom" of Christ, he who

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proclaims the richly-varied wisdom of God; but there

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his work; and the wisdom of God contains all

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in his thought separates wisdom from God destroys all

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others) are composite. The wisdom which concerns the second

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altar makes known the wisdom of the third, and

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has done everything with wisdom, there is nothing created

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has received the manifold wisdom (Eph. 3:10) of Christ; but

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incorporeal nature displays the wisdom of the Unity and

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we have known the wisdom of the Unity, united

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is suceptible of His wisdom, for corporeal nature would

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Christ, in teaching his wisdom to the logikoi, has

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has to learn the wisdom of beings has need

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or knowledge of His wisdom "which served him in

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Himself the logikoi; His wisdom has, in turn, grown

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the ful[ly] manifold wisdom in beings - he also

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mixed for us by Wisdom.

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rather he knows His wisdom by which He has

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not mean the essential wisdom, but that which appears

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knowledge renders visible the wisdom of the Creator; but

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we say that the wisdom in these objects is

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beginnings. Indeed, such a wisdom is knowledge without substance

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gnostikos the assistant of wisdom.

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it the full manifold wisdom of God ; the temple

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the sage and his wisdom two sages or two

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two sages or two wisdoms.

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with[?is united to?] wisdom - the first of all

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of all virtues being wisdom; our wise master has

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Monks

131.1

The wisdom of the Lord exalts

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Ep fid

15

Word and of His Wisdom. For all His mystic

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ken of the real Wisdom, for “all things were

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nature, very righteousness and wisdom, is said to know

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to know righteousness and wisdom; but to be ignorant

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whose weapons are the wisdom of folly.

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into a malicious soul Wisdom shall not enter, nor

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On Prayer

85

Psalmody pertains to multiform wisdom; Prayer is the prelude

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5

time will not give wisdom, and many ages will

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enemies, and seeking after wisdom you afflict them.

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Prak

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consist, according to our wise teacher: [1] When it in

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92

came one of the wise men of that time

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they have received the wise steward in their homes

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However, he was called wise because he gave more

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beings. Many of the wise of this world have

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in the words of wise Solomon, the light of

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spiritual saying of the wise makes them know. But

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ignorance and make us wise and Knowers.

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virtues being wisdom; our wise master has also called

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Monks

1.4

the logoi of the wise.

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of it is made wise by it.

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Ep fid

10

and “to God only wise,” and “none is good

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said through Solomon the Wise in the Proverbs, “He

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us by Solomon the wise, who in one passage

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the work of the wise bee in forming its

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On Prayer

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

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virtues; but also the wise knowledge of this age

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Instr

4

Children of the wise will not please a

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the words of the wise and you will be

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Prak

50

If any monk wishes to experience of the

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greater knowledge, for they wish to shoot in darkness

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apprehend. For when they wish to appear as persons

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its being as it wishes, either to render itself

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nature. He who therefore wishes that his God resides

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Sent alph II

2

You wish to know God—first

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Assorted Chapters

7

If you wish to be free of

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If you wish to know who you

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On Prayer

1

If one wishes to prepare fragrant incense

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can you, if you wish to see and converse

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If you wish to pray laudably, deny

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God [your] request; he wishes to benefit you even

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Why do the demons wish to activate in us

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ruled by one who wishes to pray truly: one

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If you wish to pray, you need

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it knowledge as he wishes; and through the nous

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insane: it is like wishing for good eyesight while

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the nous however he wishes; and in this way

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You should not wish for things that concern

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128

If you wish to pray in spirit

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22

thing it is to withdraw; this is to prevent

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desire and will not withdraw from admiration.

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62

yearning for God gradually withdraws, so to speak, from

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them. Then they voluntarily withdraw, to deceive you into

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52

virtue The life of withdrawal has been called by

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is engendered by the withdrawal of the demons [A] From

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The complete withdrawal softens the concupiscible portion

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Monks

8.1

Withdrawal [into solitude] in love

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while withdrawal [into solitude] accompanied by

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Ep fid

title

A defence of his withdrawal, and concerning the faith

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36

This is why the withdrawn life is pleasant after

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body will also be withdrawn; and thus the contemplation

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him; he who has withdrawn{into his hermitage(?) condemned

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6

thoughts (logismoi), that contain within themselves every [tempting-]thought

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have their thoughts (logismoi) within us and are ready

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those affairs which provoke within us irrational phantasies. [2B

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Gn.

4

s grace is innate [within us] directly presents matters

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sequence among them and within himself; for the intellect

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has come to be within us [is strengthened] by

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them [once we are]within him.

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the seeds of virtue [within us]when we were

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something would we have [within us] all its power

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we do not have [within us] the power of

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by their genesis, and within ends is the emptiness

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he who alone has within himself the Unity and

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reasoning nature that contains within it it the first

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it receive their forms within it: for this is

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concerning them is constituted within it. But it is

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spiritual contemplation which contains within it the logoi of

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of Our Lord, is within us, and if our

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because he alone has within him the Word of

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the incorporeals is completely within its nature. But as

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nous, which keeps [safe] within it the full manifold

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which induces a passion [within us], we are not

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Ad virg.

8.2

brooding over injury lodge within you.

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Ep

57.5

slept, you reverenced him within his holy grave, where

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Ep fid

37

kingdom of heaven is within you.” The inner man

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On Prayer

10

to demand attention; and within a short [time] they

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and memory of injury within themselves, and then expect

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the nous and places within it knowledge as he

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74

opposing energy at work within him: and therefore he

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all the opposing activity within us cease, and moves

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Prak

10

the soul following them without resistance, and dissipating itself

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is done untimely or without measure is temporary. And

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49

to fight demons even without the body, on behalf

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of the body occur without [any mental] images, they

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63

begins perform its prayers without distractions, then there commences

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69

great thing - to pray without distraction; a greater thing

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69

still - to sing psalms without distraction.

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73

impossible to win wisdom without fighting, and it is

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conduct the war well without prudence It is to

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to survive, O father, without the comfort of books

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Gn.

13

concerning physike and theologike "without which no one will

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Concerning] those who dispute without having Knowledge: it is

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27

Do not, without [careful] consideration, speak about

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to engrave the images without neglecting anything which might

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is he who is without intermediaries, and he thus

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ones who are considered without necessity, certain [ones] are

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Without end is the fullness

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in their administration is without limit, but for emptiness

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the beings who is without a name and whose

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There is one who, without the four and the

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objects of his providence, without their being deserving. [p

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knew in the beginning without matter, we now know

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we have never seen without matter.

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then immediately appear again without shadow, so when the

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Nazarenes are to be without anger.

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Trinity. For it is without beginning, nor do we

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a wisdom is knowledge without substance, which appears only

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the impassible soul (remains without being stained) by things

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these "numericals" are forms without substance; but the Blessed

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by addition of units without substance; but it is

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Skemmata

2

this cannot be accomplished without apatheia, [dispassion] since it

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and still others as without mercy. [Depicting God as

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Ep fid

12

the phrase “one God,” without, by the further addition

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Assorted Chapters

11

A cistern without water—the soul that

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20

will keep his commandments without forgetting.

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On Prayer

pref.2

over the letter, since without [nous] there can be

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3

and converse with him without any intermediary?

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17

be able to pray without distraction.

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to be settled fairly without indignation . Employ every possible

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not quantifiable and is without shape.

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on the nous stands without any agitation from acedia

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Very Great - who remained without moving from his [intimate

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the nous that, praying without distraction, receives a continually

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that it is not without danger to pray with

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Exhortations to Monks

1.6

know [his innermost] state without tranquility.

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Apophthegmata

1

you have in view without weakening. Remember also what

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1

Think of their grief without end and the tears

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3

great thing to pray without distraction but to chant

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but to chant psalms without distraction is even greater

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6

say, 'Eat a little without irregularity; if charity is

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Prak

73

responsibility is given for withstanding the fury (thumos) of

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Ep

57.4

sold him oil are witnesses.

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