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D 1205A B C TEXTS 151 the one who has been possessed by wicked tyranny, giving and granting him natural soundness of mind, through which is manifest the new man created according to God. So therefore all the Saints who have genuinely received the divine and unerring word have passed through this age, supporting the path of the soul by none of the pleasures to be found in it. Those who gaze intently on the highest attributes (logoi) concerning God that are accessible to men, by which I mean his goodness and his love, from which they learn that God is moved to give to what exists being and to grant to them wellbeing (if it is permitted to speak of movement in respect of God the sole unmoved, and not rather of willing, which moves everything and draws it and holds it in being, while being in no way moved itself). 137 And those who wisely model themselves on these easily bear through the virtues the peculiar nature, made manifest, of the concealed and invisible beauty of the divine magnificence. Therefore they have become good, loving both God and men, compassionate and full of pity, showing that they possess one disposition of love towards every kind of being, by which, through the whole of their lives, they hold fast to the form of the virtues par excellence, I mean humility. 138 Now humility is a firm safeguard of all that is good, undermining everything that is opposed to it, and not at all easily beguiled by wearying temptations, both those that attack us through the consent of our will and are thus within our control, and those that bypass our will and are not, by making rebellious attacks waste away through continence, and shaking off the approach [of temptation] through patience. So attacked from either side, by glory and by dishonour, they remain unshaken, holding themselves unmoved on either side, neither wounded by insolence through voluntary relaxation, nor admitting glory through an excessive propensity to poverty. They allow nothing to rule over them, neither anger, nor envy,nor rivalry, nor hypocrisy, nor cunning, nor a certain feigned and wily affection seducing another by a seeming pretence through deceit—which is the most destructive of all the passions—nor desire for things in this life that seem to be magnificent, nor any other of the wicked multitude of passions, nor threats held over them by enemies, nor any form of death. Therefore they are rightly judged to be blessed both by God and by men, because, by the grace of the great gift of God, they have become manifest images of the radiant, ineffable and evident glory. Therefore they rejoice are made one by the acknowledged logoi of the virtues, or rather by God,
152 DIFFICULTY 10 for whose sake they die daily and persevere to the end. In him the logoi of all good things, as in an ever-bubbling spring, preexist in accordance with the one, simple and unique embracing of all things, and they draw to him all those who use well and naturally the powers given them for this purpose.
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MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR Andrew Louth
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CONTENTS Preface vi Abbreviations v
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the densest of his theological trea
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Introduction
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4 INTRODUCTION Belgrade: in 584), a
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6 INTRODUCTION result of an adulter
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12 INTRODUCTION THE SEVENTH-CENTURY
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14 INTRODUCTION nature of the theol
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16 INTRODUCTION abandoned the hope
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2 THE SOURCES OF MAXIMUS’ THEOLOG
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THE SOURCES OF MAXIMUS’ THEOLOGY
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34 INTRODUCTION the practice of the
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62 INTRODUCTION Conversely the huma
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220 BIBLIOGRAPHY Confessore, Capito
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222 BIBLIOGRAPHY Andia, Y.de (forth
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224 BIBLIOGRAPHY Marrou, H.-I. (194
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