ANALYTICAL INDICES. INDICES OF SUBJECTS CONTAINED IN THE PROLEGOMENA TO THE WORKS OF SAINT MAXIMUS. The Reader is referred to the Roman numerals included in brackets.
**A** African councils against the Monothelites, under Maximus, XII. Agatho the Pope, by whom the Monothelite heresy was condemned at Rome, XXVI. Anastasius the Apocrisiarius, relegated to Mesembria, XX. Skilled in the Latin and Greek languages; renowned for his trials for the Roman faith and the Church; suspected by Theodosius of Caesarea, LVI. Afflicted with the same punishment as Maximus and the other Anastasius, LV, LVI, LXXXV. Anastasius the Apocrisiarius, a martyr for the truth; wrote his epistle and much else with his hand cut off, LXVI. Variously received in exile for his conduct toward the ethnarchs, LXVIII. Remained able to speak after his tongue had been cut out, a recognized miracle. His disciples, themselves confessors. His death, LXXX, LXXXI. Anastasius, disciple of Maximus, author of his Acts, XV, XX. His hearing, defamation, etc., XVI. Constancy of Anastasius, disciple of Maximus, and the superior’s responses, XXXIX. His defamation, XXXIX. Exception taken to his shameless and criminal accuser, XXXVIII. Epistle against the new heresy of the Monothelites, XLI. Anastasius, disciple of Maximus, notary to the grandmother of Constans, LX. Sentenced to supreme exile for his tongue and hand being cut out, LXVI. The day of his death unknown to his Apocrisiarius, LXVII. Delivered to the author of the *Hypomnesticon* on July 24, LXXXI. The power of speech believed to have been preserved after his tongue was cut, XXIV. Apocrisiaries of Byzantium, their prevarication under the pro-pope Eugenius, XXXIV. Apollinarian sayings, under the name of Julius, Roman Pope, Athanasius, and Gregory Thaumaturgus, L. Arian dispensations in the faith exploded by Catholics, although Emperor Constantine favored them, XXX. Athanasius, patriarch of the Jacobites, cause of the novelty to Heraclius, VII.
**B** Bero and Helico, ancient heretics, LXXI. Biographer of Maximus, his shaky faith and errors, VIII, IX, X.
**C** Christ's *to noēton* (intellectual) and *to horōmenon* (visible). Divine and human nature, LXXII. Constans, grandson of Heraclius, son of Constantine, XI. His mind in issuing the *Typos*, XXXVI. Extinguished in a bath at Syracuse. His journey to Italy for the sake of removing the envy of the citizens, born of the deaths of Maximus and his companions—the biographer's foolish conjecture, XXVI. Constantine, son of Constans, by force compelled a synod, XXVII. The author of the *Hypomnesticon* falsely names him as the author of the *Typos* for his father Constante, LXXX. Constantine Pogonatus himself signally favors the author of the *Synaxarion*, under whom Maximus etc. suffered, LXXXIX. Constantine, son of Heraclius, Emperor, killed by poison by Pyrrhus and his stepmother Martina, X. Cyrus, author of the Monothelite heresy: his followers in Constantinople, his delusions refuted by Maximus, XLVI, XLVII. Patriarch of Alexandria, VI, VIII.
**D** God's counsel, the weary life of the saints, XL. Diptychs, the religion of; names of the proscribed to be cast out under anathema, LV.
**E** Catholic Church, confession of the right faith, XIX. Epiphanius the Patrician, more equitable of the judges toward Maximus, XXXI, XXXV. Euprepius, disciple of Anastasius the Apocrisiarius, a confessor; died in the ninth year of his exile, LXXXI.
**G** Gregory the Abbot, II.
**H** Heracleo, Emperor, removed by the senate, XI. Heraclius’s incautious zeal for bringing back the heretics, VII, VIII. A softer heresy, that there are neither one nor two wills, IX. But this was of Constans, his grandson. Reconciliation of heretics, of the Roman Pope: [the] reconciliation of heretics after death [is] unknown, LV. Hippolytus, bishop of Portus, excerpts, LXIX. His opinion on the angels being brought back to God through Christ, LXXII.
**I** Emperor’s names among the laity, following every sacred order, XXXIV. No account taken of them as to whether synods are valid or invalid in matters of faith, L. What was done in the Incarnation, L. What things are in us, and what are not in us, XLV.
**J** Jacobite Church, its mockery in the Heraclian union, X.
**L** Lateran synod, held to be valid even if the emperor was unwilling, L. In it, the offense of Bishop Theodosius, because the heads were proscribed by name, LV.
**M** Evil life, the punishment for sins: in the saints, exercises of virtue, XLV. Martin’s abduction, defamation, exile. Many bishops suffered similar things, XIV. Martin, Pope, apostolic and martyr, supreme hierarch, LXXX. His cult in Cherson, miracles, sacred relics, the campera and caligae, which belonged to the Roman Pope, LXXXI, LXXXIV. Martin’s harsh treatment at Constantinople. Afflicted in exile for three years and more: his men suffered harsh things themselves. Eulogy of the man, having been completed on the 16th of September, LXXXI. Maximus’s excellence in virtue, eloquence, and the glory of the struggle, II. His affairs not fully written by contemporaries. Other ecclesiastical matters mixed in. Maximus’s homeland and first training, II. Maximus’s diligence in studies: the cultivation of philosophy, and his choice therein, III. With such great gifts, the man’s utmost modesty. First as secretary to Heraclius, IV. Maximus’s accurate discipline as a monk, V. Chosen superior, he refuses. The superior’s solicitude, V. His journey to Africa, and the cause of it, VI. Maximus’s works in Africa. The man’s great gifts; held in admiration by the African bishops; author to them for proscribing the Monothelite heresy, II, III. Maximus’s first abduction to Byzantium with the Anastasii: harsh reception and prison. The Sacellarius, head of the trial. The crime of lese-majesty brought against him, XIV, XV, XXX, XXXI. The calumny of Origenism repelled, XVIII, XXXIV. First exile, XL. Maximus’s constancy tested by promises: the man’s supreme authority, by whose communion it was believed the whole world would communicate with the throne of CP. The firmness of his faith; the tumultuary uprising caused by him, XX, XXIV, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXIX, LX, etc. Maximus’s piety toward the emperor and the servant [of God]. Plan for dispelling envy of the *Typos*, XXXV. Persistence against the *Typos*, LX. False accusations of blasphemy against the holy Theotokos, LXIV. Tongue and hand cut off: shameful procession through the forum. The power of speech divinely preserved. His death. Divinely ignited torches, XXV, LXV, etc. Sylloge of Maximus’s noble works. The crime of the Constantinopolitans against him exaggerated, LXXXV, LXXXVI. Illustrious eulogies from the Menologies, new and old, L, LXXXVIII, etc. Mene, heretical booklet, LI. Monothelite union, V. Things holy overturned by them, V. Councils; inconstancy of their doctrine, XXXV. A new faith forged, rejected by Maximus, XLII.
**N** Authorities of Nestorius, in the name of Chrysostom, L.
1465 INDEX RERUM. Nicolaus, bishop, in whose favor Maximus was praised, A XXVI.
P Patriarchs, Paul and Pyrrhus, present at the hearing of Maximus, A XXXVIII. Paul, consul, future patrician, hears Maximus at Byzia, and brings him back, A XX, XXI, XLVI. Paul, patriarch of Constantinople, a Monothelite, A XL. Persecutions, their fruit for the sake of the Gospel, A LXIX. Peter, patriarch of Constantinople: under him were the final struggles of Maximus, A XLV. Prelacy, an arduous duty; the life-styles of other prelates, distinct from those of private men, A V, VI. Pyrrhus, successor of Sergius, a heretic just like him. Driven from his see and the city, suspected of poisoning the Emperor Constantine, son of Heraclius, A X. His disputation with Maximus in Africa. Having been received at Rome after presenting his libelli, he returns to his vomit at Ravenna; and again takes over the see, A XII, XIII, XIV.
R Roman faith, by the privilege of Peter, A XLII. Men of Rome, pious and firm as a rock, A XLIV. Authority of the Roman Church in granting peace to the Churches, A XX. The Roman pontiff’s power in condemning heretics, A XLII. Rome, both Babylons, rising on seven hills, A LXXXVI.
S Sacellarius, presiding at the trial of Maximus. Insolence and madness against Maximus, A XV, XVI, XIX, XXX, XXXIV. Sacerdotal and imperial duties; it belongs to priests, not kings, to inquire into and decide upon dogmas, A XVII, XXX. Scripture, the sense of which must be attended to, along with the Fathers, not merely the words, A LII.
1466 Sergius, patriarch of Constantinople, promoter of the Monothelite heresy, and instigator of Heraclius, A VI. Severian heretics, their mockery of the Church and of the synod in the time of Heraclius, A X. Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem, his contest against the Monothelites. His writings: epistles to Honorius and to Sergius. Falsely called 'biographer' (βιογράφος) in relation to John, A X. Stephen, a fervent herald of piety in Lazica, A LXIX.
T Theodore, disciple of Anastasius the apocrisiarius, a confessor. His long and useful life in exile, A LXXXI. Theodore, successor of John, Roman pontiff, A XII. Theodore of Pharan, a Monothelite, A V. Theodore, brother of Theodosius the presbyter of Gangra, A LXXXI. Theodosius, bishop of Caesarea in Bithynia, judge of Maximus, sent to him in the person of the patriarch Peter. His disputation and conviction. He gives his word under oath and violates it, A XX, XXI, XXII, XLIV. The Type disapproved by him, A XLIX. Brought to assent to the faith by the voices of the Fathers and from the Lateran synod, A LV. Denounced in the tragedy of Maximus, A LXXXV. Theodosius, consul, future patrician, judge of Maximus at Byzia, A XX, XXI, XLVI. Theodosius, presbyter of Gangra, a follower of Maximus and the Anastasiuses, A LXVI. Author of the Hypomnesticon: the diligence contained in it, A L. Timothy Aelurus, depraver of the works of Cyril, A II. Type, the excuse of its supporters, that it was done by dispensation, A XLVII, LXII. Constantine, the author, wrongly ascribed, instead of Constans, A LXXXII, LXXXIX. Its reception in Rome attempted in vain, A XXX, XXXIII.
V Will, regarding its being personal, how absurd that is in Theology. One absolute will and operation, and the other exploded, A LIII, LVI, LVIII.
INDEX OF THINGS AND SENTIMENTS.
The reader is referred to the numbers expressed in bold characters in the text.A Abel’s slaughter by Cain in the field, 124, 555. Consideration and tropology of them both, 126, 519. Abnegation of will, 419. Abomination of desolation, sin in the soul, 414. Abraham’s sons, offspring of vipers, 30, 31. Father of Isaac at one hundred years. His three hundred [servants], 170, 171. First-fruits of the spoils offered to Melchizedek, 315. Trinity manifested in unity, according to his degree of perfection, 70, 71. The spiritual Abraham and circumcision, 660. Absalom, on his mule, seeking his father's death. Parricidal death; suspension from the oak; paternal mourning, 175, 176, etc., 185, 373. Abstinence, the power of, and of fasting (ἐγκρατείας), to tame concupiscence, 377. Abstinence from food and words: the discipline of both; the manner and the fruit, 616. Discretion of abstinence from food, 617. Acedia, anger, vice, and greed, lost through purity of prayer, 400. The most troublesome and universal of vices. Antidote: patience, 403. Ahithophel, counselor of Absalom, 175, 185. Action, its beginning and end. True action: the mutual turns of action and contemplation, 657. One or the other must necessarily be attended to, 61. Action is a path to spiritual sense, 623. Reciprocal changes of action and speech, or reason. Multiplex action, 214, 219. Action and contemplation, the strength of the soul, 641. Virtues of both, 660. From the tranquility of action, the simplicity of prayer, 553. Action as a path to knowledge, 465, 466. Active and contemplative. The duties of both; the soul’s ship, the rest of contemplation and the labor of action, 658. The active are like harts, 665. Active, contemplative, gnostic, 663. Adam, God’s irony and obliquity toward him, 99, 100, 101. His sin, a reversal of order, 539, 540. Abduction from the tree of life, 100, 101. The arrival of his birth from desire, 216. Adoption, divine, 316. Advenient spiritual [grace], 488. Bodily tribulation and the labor of life, 513, 516. Fruit of tribulations, extinction of carnal lust. Affection, [...]. Not from first creation, but introduced by sin. The Nyssen praised as the author of the opinion. They fall into good if used well, 15, 19. Affection to be cut off, 450. Conflates objects of things, 558. Philosophy composes it, does not destroy it by nature, 592, 595. Affections of the soul and body, 642. Beasts and birds, 660, 667. Affections translated to divine things, 179, 182. Affections that both restrain and diminish, 417. Praiseworthy even in the studious, 525, 526. Agag, his gluttony; the offense of sparing him: his mother bereaved of children by his sword; his immolation by Samuel, 292, 299. To act and to beware, 410. To act in things that are according to nature; to suffer in those that are beyond or above, 528, 529. Aivos, αἶνος. The power and end of these, 179. Unknown (ἄληστος) knowledge, 554. Allegory, Tropology, 302. Friendship, what is true, 140. Rare to set foot toward a friend. True friendship, a rare friend in adversities, 457. Love, a unifying and ecstatic power. Ecstasy of divine love, 631, 632. Ascent and descent in the love of the mind. The new canticle. Dedication of future life. Jubilation by divine inspiration, 663. What it persuades the monk and what the secular, 419. Opposites, charity and continence. Carnal love praised. Carnal love and God’s love are contrary, 427, 428. Anaitis, stupor at the loss of virtues, a path to impiety, 146. Anathema from Christ, 501. Angels, good, evil angels, consciences of reasons. Power over the head because of the angels: the epistemic (ἐπιστασία) of reason, 55. Angels as helpers on the way of God, and pious reasons, 57. Angel of great counsel, 189, 190. Angel sent to Ezekiel, 130, 131. The Incarnation of Christ as unknown to the angels, 5, 6. Angelic illumination of inferior men, 432. The dwelling left by the angels who did not keep [their state]; eternal bonds, darkness, 29, 30. Soul, perfect, 13. Faculties of the soul. Its body—
1467 INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Impurity, 452, 433. The soul as the virgin mother of Christ, 354. The equal dignity of souls by nature, 463. The mind dwelling within itself, and in those things which are sensible. The ascent and descent of the mind, 655. The intellect, activity, and senses, in which it may dwell, 653. The mind dead to worldly things, 563. The purified mind: whence the countenance of the soul is known, 614. The purified mind and the lustful one. The purity of soul and body, 435. The mind superior to the world and to time, 621. The mind pure from stain; and the perfection of man, 461. The mind dwelling in God, uniform, whole, and formless, and bright, 443. The virtues of the soul and of the body, 300. The atrium, temple, and sanctuary of the soul, 659. The eructations of the soul panting for God, 661. The dwelling of the soul even to the place of the wonderful tabernacle, etc., 504, 505. The probation of the soul, the labors of the flesh, 516. The vice of the soul, the oblivion of one's own goods, 523. The pleasure and pain of the soul, as contraries, 196 sqq. A Ataraxia, the tranquility and imperturbability of the mind, fourfold, 570, 571. Its highest point: no security, 449, 451. The order of providing for ataraxia, 654. Ataraxia free from every fear of pleasure or pain, 521. The bee making honey, 655. B Apokatastasis, the abuse of the term in Gregory of Nyssen, 304. "The mourners," would that they might also bewail and lament, 531. Appetitions and harmless pleasures, 555. The law of the eagle, a natural one, 139. The land of the North, 216, 219. The faculty of free will granted to man, 539. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil and of transgression, 522. The ardor of the spirit against the synagogue; the vengeance upon the nations, and their abandonment; its pride and emulation, 251, 264, 265, 273, 611. Weapons in nocturnal terrors, etc., 321. A defense on the part of the priests, 543. Artificial, that is, the wisdom of God, not truly existing [of itself], 459. He shall not break the bruised reed, 308. C The ascetic as a spiritual farmer, having found the treasure through natural contemplation, 465. Demons as helpers to the fervent ascetic for greater works of virtue, 186, 187, 188. The ascetic way to divine sweetness, 476. The Ascetic Book of Maximus: its character and utility. Directed to Elpidius, to whom the Chapters on Charity are also inscribed, 194. The ascent from the visible world to the invisible and to God, 139. Asses, or beasts of burden. Grain from Egypt brought by asses, 177, 178. Rough ways into level ones, etc., 547, 548. The nature of the asp that stops its ears, 153. The allegory of the denarius, 302. Human sycophancy (assentation), 535. The kingdom of the Assyrians and of the devil, 556. The touching of God by the thought of the mind. In legal signs, in created things, and in ourselves, 75, 76, 555. The avaricious man, the betrayer of the Lord, 474. Signs of an avaricious soul, 440. A sterner discipline, as though under the sanction of God, 412. D Babylon: the descent of the saints into it, 496. The kings of the nations handed over to Babylon: the beasts also handed over, 60, 61. Mysteries sought in the numbers of the captives, 167, 168. The Church led out of captivity, men, servants, maidservants, singers, etc., 177, 552, 555. The baptism of the Lord and the chalice: what are they mystically? The order of their rite, 73, 74, 534, 535. Baptism in water and in the Holy Spirit and fire, 499. Blessed are the poor, the meek, etc., thus for Christ's sake, 434. The rest of the blessed, the plenitude itself, and the fixed seat and fruition, 505, 506. The rest of the blessed, as the plenitude itself: here all things are in part. The fixed seat of the blessed, no further progress, constant fruition, 505, 506. To bless God, the Lord of the Fathers, 232, 261. Benjamin with Judah building the house of God, 185, 186. What a beast is, 466. The spirit of blasphemy against those beginning, 410. The blasphemy of the Spirit, which shall not be forgiven, 309, 310. The one good is God; good as substance and properly, 511, 512. Good by nature; and who imitate Him by will, so that they may unite and share in the good, 456. The discernment of good and evil in general. Good not purchased; evil otherwise, 180, 572. Natural faculties directed toward the good, 181. The degrees of the good, the evils from vainglory, 415. Participation in or the frustration of divine goodness, 598.
1468 Calceamentum (shoe-strap) into Edom, 312. The lampstand, solid, hammered out of gold, for the Church, 114, 235, 238. Singers and chanters, 173. To heap coals of fire, 510. Flesh and blood, 306. The mutual disagreement of the flesh and reason, 633. The affliction and humility of the flesh, 404, 584, 585. The infirmity of the flesh excused in vain by the faithful, 569. A Voluntary death of the flesh, 603. Those who are to judge in the flesh those who sinned before, 314, 523. Carnal and spiritual sacrifices, 622. Carnal sense and spiritual, 625. The carnal understanding of Scripture, 615, 616, 617, 618. Those dead to the flesh, etc., 15, 24. Chastisement, the common lot of the saints, 516. The speech of those who have been chastened, 619. Truly chaste, 670. Cedonius the monk, the scholiast of Dufrenius: perhaps he himself is the scholiast, 460. The centenarian. Abraham, father of Isaac at a hundred years old, 170, 171. The thirsty stag, 655, 663. The land of the Chaldeans and Charran, and the promised land, 490, 496. B Charity, the most ample virtue, 454. The part of the soul's irascible faculty to be bridled by charity: those who dissolve charity, 455. Charity as strength and love, 419. Nothing more acceptable to God than charity; the short way to salvation and liberation from evils, 2, 5, 520, 521. Perfect charity, to love everyone equally, 410. To do good to enemies, 417. No distinction between persons in Christ, 413, 414. By charity, the one soul of those who love: through it the most tranquil identity of minds, 2, 3. The way for preparing charity, 394. It, the knowledge of God and love, to be preferred to all things. It is greater than all others. The excess of charity: against us, the love of self before God, and the servitude to creatures and idols, 596, 443. The loss of charity, which a man neglects to be reconciled to his brother. Without it, the other gifts of the Spirit are nothing. Works contrary to it, 401. Things adverse to charity. Charity is patient and prudent, 446, 447. It, so that you may call Jesus Lord. Things pertaining to the charity of God and of one's neighbor, 446, 447, 449. Assiduous in the charity of God and in prayer, [to be] secure from thoughts, 455. The victor over vainglory, 400. C Charity, the end and perfection of good things. The greatest of goods, by which is the reciprocity of properties and names, 517. The more divine and apostolic charity of Paul, which the prophetic does not surpass, 71, 72, 73. Perfect charity toward all according to the reason of each. He, Christ, who died for all: charity is not yet perfect, unless you despise all things and your very life for it, 403, 404. Charity edifying; 451, 452. The companion, love of neighbor, 597. Charity poured forth in almsgiving toward all with discretion, 597, 598. Precepts ordering toward it, 402. The six parts of charity, or the corporal works: by which the first equality of nature is to be restored, 90. The tenth day, the charity of God and neighbor, 454. True charity [exists] only [in] the disciples of Christ, and by which they are His friends, 458. Charity teaches that it is patient: it is necessary for enlightening the mind, 598. For providing salvation, 71, 72, 75. It renders minds invincible: troublesome to none. Through it an angelic life on earth, 399. Charity, the divine wisdom of the faithful, 518. The probation of charity toward God is the love of neighbor. Charity is the way of truth, the gate of entry into holy things, 518, 519. Mutual charity and intimacy, for receiving divine dignifications, 361, 362. Charran, 490, 496. D Christ, for us, the end of the mystery. The adverse machinations of the devil. The love of Christ tested by men, 571, 372, 373. The mystery of Christ, theology, adoption, angelic dignity, etc., 316, 347, 348. The mystery of Christ, Christ himself, 209. The ancient counsel, of which the Word of God is the Messenger to us, 210; His head, God, 55, 56. Foreknown by God Himself and the blessed Trinity, not Origen's pre-existent one, 112. The spiritual Zorobabel: the restoration of the temple, the work is more powerful; the tin stone; the seven eyes, 157, 158, 159. Christ, the day of eternal light: the light of nations, the glory of Israel, 295. David the musician, their savior whom Saul would have killed, 291, 295, the end of the mystery, the union of nature in Himself, 521. The restoration of man [by] wisdom and justice and power, 215, 216, 223. Christ the first-born, despised, yet the King in the house of Jacob, 49, 50. The lamp of the Church placed on the lampstand, 236, 237. Principalities and Powers despoiled, He alone [remaining] harmless in our passible nature, 41, 42, 43, 44. Christ's seamless tunic, 19, 20. The mysteries of the Tricenarian manifestation, 477, 478. The gifts of Christ's grace and Spirit, 451, 455. He is our inheritance, and co-heir with us, 207. A certain argument of our deification, 521. To be with Him, and to remain in the flesh, 69. Christ, the norm of mutual charity for us, [the] origin of a new birth introduced. Labor, the sting of death, the penalty of sin, 216, 217, 218, 222. The curse and the penalty. The curse into the house of the thief and the perjurer, 227, 229. Reconciled in one body through Him, 230. Christ to be despoiled of Principalities and Powers [by taking] our passible nature, having clothed Himself in them, He alone remaining harmless in it, 41, 42, 43, 44. Food: its end and use, 441. Discrete abstinence from foods, 647.
Cistern, and other things of Ozia, tropologically, 548, 549, etc. Lyre, mystically, the tibia and the temple, 511. Fortified city, πῡργος, 341, 512. Cities of Israel not to be consumed by those fleeing, 320. Heavenly image and of the earthly, 422. Heavenly home: heavenly habitation, of virtue in a tranquil state, 569, 658. Natural law of the heavens, 159. The multiple tropology of the word "heaven," 129, 130. Upper room. Disciples in the upper room with doors shut, 495. Thoughts, solely of the nature that uses reason: ascending from sense to the mind: harmful and useful. Angels, spiritual, physiological, 655. Libidinous and simple thoughts, and libidinous and composite ones, 433. The battle and victory of thoughts, 428, 429. That which is more grievous and troublesome than things themselves, 407. The triple source of thoughts, 421. From them, the easy abuse of things, 422. How far the use of them and of reasons extends, 663. Knowledge of the way and the fatherland, 590. Dove of silvered wings, etc., 656. Moments of compunction, 579, 580. Punishment for the neglect of virtue and love of neighbor, 582. A flood of evils, and crimes, 582. No gifts of the Divine Spirit, vices contrary to His gifts; Charity extinguished, 585, 581, 585. Wine of compunction, 338.
Circumcision, spiritual and mystical, 531, 619. Injury to God by carnal understanding, 620. Circumcision of circumcision: Jesus Nave circumcising, 469. Circumcision of God. Circumcision of the heart in the spirit, 470. Nothing coeternal. The eminence of God, 461. Of God in the plural number in Scripture, 68, 69, 70. The goodness to be imparted by God’s creation, 434. Our victory of God’s power, 554. Knowledge of Him from creation in part, 475. Knowledge of good things only, 543. Natural love of God, 654. Typical habitation of God in temples; its one suitable place, the pure mind, 74, 75. God Himself, Sabbath, Passover, Pentecost, 621. Knowledge of God’s own future [things] and of those from Himself, and of the secrets of the heart: through Him, that the devil might not deceive by the appearance of good, 188. In one God all our hope is to be placed, 392. Virtue in God, 343. Advice and thoughts of God, 315. Presence of God, 665. A holy place and of those to be saved, 597, 598, 622. Whose Father, 243, 248, 606. Union of God to delights and to punishment, 203, 588. Union above every intelligence, a passion, by which there is a turning of the soul from vice, 6. God Himself is myriad and monad, 570. God moving and moved; ecstatic love: the ecstasy of love itself, God as emulator, and producer of the bond of love, 630, 631. Gentle patience of God, 589, 590. Words of God without voice: Word uncircumscribed, 555. Never a plurality, but one, and when He executes all things, 489. God of thoughts, the intelligible, 625, 626. God’s Sabbath, circumcision, harvest, 470, 471. God, whether the evil one, father, or devil, 365. Heaven as God’s throne and footstool, 56. The sanctification and kingdom of His name, 351. To bless God, the author of good things to us, and whose gifts are our merits, the end of providence and commandments, 446, 451. The manifestation of God, according to the manner of those to whom He is manifested, 553. With God: God in the assembly of gods, 490. God’s end in creating creatures, 629. In them, image and likeness, 452. God's will on earth as in heaven, 358. God, the Good exposed to all and hidden from all, 635. In the excess toward God, divine things are to be known, 61, 626. God’s knowledge (ratio and thought) and the sense of God itself: the one of the way, the other in blessed rest, 211, 213, 590, 591. Knowledge of God in creatures, 663. Participations not grasped by work, yet they themselves are God’s effects, 470, 471. Of God’s gift and inclination, regarding knowledge of God, 468. God one, known and unknown, simple, author of the intelligent creature, that He is, and always is, 446. Invocation of God in sudden moments, 628. God’s piety sprinkled upon things that fall into sense, 556. Through God’s help, our discretion, the end of struggles, 107, 108. Nothing contrary to God, 451. God’s repulsion, destruction, wrath, pity, 337, 342. God through the wholesome discipline of punishment, 559, 560. God and man reciprocal exemplars to each other, 627. God’s kingdom is justice, 206. God’s penitence, 512. God’s fear, the companion of humility and leading to charity, 400. Joined from the terrors of threats and to charity, 405. God’s fear and worship, 32. The Word of God living and efficacious, etc., 128, 191. Knowledge of good things only of God, 543. God’s works after the first creation, 16, 17. The irony of God toward Adam. God’s turning aside, 90, 100, 101. God clarifying and clarified, 502. In the whistling of the voice of the thin breeze, 505. Clarity of those receiving Him into the hospitality of the heart, 665. Assiduous meditation of God, lest one slide into carnal things, 438. Conceive. "She conceived in sin," libido conceived: "she was in heat for pleasure," 301. Nor is the Hebrew otherwise. Confession of praise and of sins, both of a modest and humble sense, 574. Conjectural reaching for the Scriptures, 163. Conscience to be heard, 440. Conscience as censure, 448. The day and hour of consumption, 473. Reward of contemplation: to the one leading and following it, 657, 659. Degrees to it, 661. Entrance into paradise, 339, 540. Contemplation not unbridled, precipitous, 44. Contemplation of God in undivided unity, 480. Valley of the tabernacles, 339, 340. A clean heart, a right spirit; the spiritual world of God. The Mosaic tablets, the erased tablet, etc., 55. Sin of heart and deed, 669. Corinthian handed to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, 58, 60. Bodily tribulation and labor, the provider of life. Strength of mind, its injury, 515, 516. The guardian of the virtues of the mind. Creator from eternity, things in time. Himself God’s decree and knowledge. Stupendous works of creation, 444. Visible creature as a guide to the tree of life and to the tree of knowledge, etc., 36. The title of the Cross in triple language, 310. Cupidity, the incorrupt pleasure of divine love, and blessed fruition, 172, 173, 174. Reason, wrath, cupidity, through which we persistent ones are gifted with divine food by the Word and Christ, 539.
D Demon’s most subtle guile, an incitement to greater things in the fervent. Every work of theirs is to be rejected. We shall build up ourselves alone. Greater harm and sin in excesses than in defects, 187, 188, 189, 190, 576, 577, 578. They change the temperament so that they might enter into the mind, 425. They attack prayer, 422. What makes them weak and what perishes, 412. The scope of demons in calumnies, 456. Darius, type of the law of nature, 157, 162, 166. David, soothing Saul’s demon with the lyre, red-haired, with beautiful eyes, father of peace. The kingdom of David and of Saul, 314, 496, 497. Numbering the people, by God, or by the instigation of the devil, 530. Flight into Galaad from the face of his son Absalom, 176, 183. The cornerstone, despised by the Jews, victor over the arrogant Goliath; true king of Israel and shepherd, 146, 147, 148. The sons of David and their tombs, 148, 149. Modes of dereliction, 457. Detraction in the speaker and the hearer, 401. The double guilt of the hearer. Detractor of the Father, 402. God alone absolute: God is believed, not understood. God’s names from things, as He is author and cause. The sun softening and hardening souls, 463, 464. Knowledge of God through the excellence of negation, 461, 462. God as one good, holy trinity subsisting as unity, etc. Good and that which truly is. One God, before all things: unparticipated according to essence, etc., 511, 512. The uncircumscription of one loving God, 515. God as light, and in light: in us, who are ourselves light through Him. In the light the son, God the Father is light, and one light, 22, 55. God’s understanding and creature, 430. God as the sun of justice, He himself his own reason for knowing, and the knowledge of God for others from creatures, 407. God, as to what He is, is unknown: as to those things around Him, they are somehow known; and from them He Himself, 408. Deification’s unknown motion, 25, 26. The proper gift of grace. Its pledge in Christ. It is by passion, not by action, 47, 48. The blessed passion of deification, 525. The end of things, man’s deification, 519. Right and left, which you know not, 608, 609. To offer the other cheek when struck on the right, 659. (Devil) caught by the bait of the Lord’s flesh, 513. Given the license of tempting, 228, 233, 234, 420. His calumny against God, envy against us, 597. The devil’s power from God; God’s servant, even if unwilling, 57, 58, 61. Greedy to rage. License for him to tempt, from his nature, chastised by God, 550, 551. Thief and perjurer. His house plundered. A thief killing and destroying, 228, 229, 230. Aids of sensible things for the tempting devil, 121, 122, 225, 226. The scope of the devil is opposed to Christ and charity, 372. Men’s characters prone toward him. Our weapons and victory, 373, 374. Protection of the sober and vigilant mind against him, 375, 376. Diadochus (Saint), praised by Maximus, 503. Diapsalma, 306. Love good and evil, 458. That we be taught by love as having been known by God, 458. Love of neighbor, and opposite vices, 591. Love tempered by fear and desire, 364. Impossible; the reason for it for us, the Lord’s scope, 370, 371. The force of love in wrath, 376. Causes of the love of mortals, 393. He who hates his neighbor. He worships the creature before the Creator, who nourishes strife because of temporal things, 393. Love of all, and divine knowledge, 455. Dina, having gone out from Sichem, was violated, 126, 533. Divinity’s gifts impressed upon things. The reason of the image in the user, [index: entries preserved]
A Matured by reason. Wisdom as an artisan, not truly existing itself, but in the mind, 430. Grief; what is more common than wrath, 443. Grief as a sense arising from the evil use of pleasure: a natural evil. Grief brought in as the penalty of pleasure, 502. Its necessary companion. Those free from the sense of these who are affected by God, 512. B *Apatheia*, without fear of any of them, 521. The Lord present and absent, 497, 498. The Lord in the form of God on the mountain, 487, 488. The subject and organ of the gifts of the Spirit. Gifts according to the measure of each person's faith. Their order and reason. Gifts as the eyes of faith, 159, 162, 163, 565, 566, 567, etc. All gifts of the Spirit joined to sincere faith, 455. The gifts of the Spirit, 604. We shall all sleep, but we shall not all be changed; and the contrary. Diverse *ekdoxeis*. To prescribe to neither reflects the modesty of Maximus, 329. C Church, a candelabrum of solid gold; the endowment of gold translated into the Church, 234, 235. The lamp placed upon it, 236. A turned golden candelabrum, 238. *Ekstasis*, sober madness, whence, 173. *Engkrateia*. Abstinence, fasting: its power to tame concupiscence, 377. Elements of the spiritual world, 633. Elias in Horeb and the cave; seeing God in the whisper of a gentle breeze, 505. Tropology of the rapture of Elias, 553. Elisha mocked: those mocking torn by bears, 323. Ascetic Book directed to Elpidius: inscribed Chapters on Charity, 391. Bishops and priests as celibate, 315. Office of the epistles, 636. Horse, swift in running: the wrath of the hoofs, 174. Horse as a type of lust, 175. The praised number of horses, 182. D Those placed in the circle, 507. To investigate, to search out, 200, 205, 206, 207, 208. Questioning, mid-logic for the sake of apprehension, 295, 500. Opinion of Esdras, women prevail; truth surpasses, 564, 565. Etymology of names in the Scriptures, 555. Gospel, the exhortation and embassy of God through the Son, 220. Life of the abandonment of the world, 523. Prayer, *proseuche*, 556. The good and evil excess of the mind, 541, 542. Ezechias exalted in the eyes of all nations. Many offering gifts to God, presents to the king, etc., 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138. Ezechias, Judas and Jerusalem, upon whom the wrath of God fell, by his own pride, 141, 142. Wrath done, and wrath has not come, first and second wrath, 145. Days of Ezechias, 145. Buried in the ascent of the sepulchers of the sons of David: in the sepulcher of David himself, no one, 148, 149. All things and tributes subject to Ezechias: exalted above all, 556, 557. Helpers of besieged Jerusalem: water flowing into the city inhibited; prayer and penance, and silence, 117, 118, 119 seqq., 549, 550, 551 seqq. A strong angel sent as help, 127, etc. 558. Ungrateful to the liberator again, 562. A To wash the face, to anoint the head, 519. To seek the face of the Lord, 617. To flee from the face of the bow, 358. Spiritual famine not recognized, 616. Fool, *raca*, 305. Human pride, 528. Religion of feasts; the three major feasts of the law; God himself as the Sabbath, Pasch, Pentecost. Worshipping the days themselves, and as if they were their religion, worshipping the creature before the Creator, 286, 287. Pentecost, Trumpet, Scenopegia, morally, 288, 289, 297, 298. Fig tree dried up, the shadow of the law; pride of the Pharisees; simulated justice of Christians, 40, 41. The faithful, the house of God, from which judgment begins, 121, 122. An arena open to the faithful, 640. Faithful, disciple, apostle: in these, progress from lesser to greater things, 468. Faith, the first gift from God and altogether gratuitous, 159. Faith more certain than knowledge, and superior to it, 463. Faith *enupostatos*, 52, 56, 531. The gifts of the Spirit as the eyes of faith: without them the stone itself is leaden, 159, 160, 163, 569. From faith, the beginning and progress of salvation, 587, 588. Faith, the kingdom of God within us: necessity with God above nature; nothing impossible from it, 76, 77, 536. It obtains all things, 78, 79. The *anoeton* of faith, 53, 56. Faith, the knowledge of God according to energy, 498. B The end, the salvation of souls, and all its progress, 202, 203, 204, etc. Women laboring, explained allegorically, 93. Law of fornication and of death, by which it came in the beginning, 213, 214. Demon of fornication the most troublesome, 411, 412. Brother nowhere: the devil alone to be held in hatred, 455. D Brother's temptation to be averted, 439. Words in wrath, memory to be abolished, 446, 447, 448. Of the one hating his brother, no peace with God, 449. Spiritual thief and perjurer, 600, 601. Knowledge of future things peculiar to God, 591. [G] The vexation of the Gabaonites by Saul. From this came the famine. Its three continuous years, 279, 280, 281, 282. Victory for them because heaven favored. Obsequies addicted to the temple, 278, 279, 291. Galaad, Manasses, Ephraim, 510. Garizin, Hebal, altar, 516. *Gastrimargia*, of gluttony, a fabulous etymology, 522. Spiritual joy, which is that names are written in heaven, 577. Generation from bodies brought in by sin, 634. Glory seen as if of the Only-Begotten, 503, 504. Gnostic. See Active and Contemplative. Established order of degrees, so that the greater may not obey the lesser, 73. Narrow opinion of the Greeks regarding God: creation denied, 444, 445. Error, that nothing is contrary to substance, 451. The immutable power of grace, and its necessity, 28. Confession of grace as high; from which comes all virtue and knowledge. The motives of grace and man. Capacity of natural grace, 586, 587. One born of God through grace cannot sin, 21, 22, 23. Grace as the subject mind, itself acting: that natural force repaired. Grace necessary for anything spiritual and for salvation to be understood, 201, 202, 208. Victory of the saints by grace: stain by nature, 538. Grace of deification is unbegotten. Unbegotten divine life, incomprehensible in its commerce, 221, 223. Power of gluttony in drawing affections: continuous war, 670. Killing the germs of the virtues, 623. Pleasure of sexual things, how long-lasting, 647. [H] The house of Herod is their leader, 511. Man, a thief and perjurer, in vain boasting, nor rendering vows, 252, 253. With dignity equal to angels from Christ, 545. His glory, to suffer with God, 516. The end, that God may be, 517. World in the world, 666. Barley harvest beginning. By it the sons of Saul killed; earth heard; rain from heaven; abundance of wheat, wine, oil, 288, 290, 299. Humility, the substance of virtue. The ascent of humility; virtues to be supplemented by it; without it truth is blind, 645. Substituted for the yoke of the devil, 464. Conserves the virtues of the saints, 632. Humility is prayer, 441. Six water jars of the wedding filled with wine. The mystery of the number six in them. Master of the feast, ministers drawing water, the Bridegroom, the Mother of the Word, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92. What hypocrisy is, and how great the evils in it, 186, 190. Most wicked vice, 575. Hypocrite hidden and detected. Offspring of vipers, 466. [I] The fire which we kindle, and light to be censured, 165. Ignorance of one seeing God, 611. Spiritual illumination with closed eyes, 655. The way to impiety, stupor once virtues are lost, 561. Over the three impieties of Tyre, 312. Impious and sinner, where? 221, 222. Parent of vain glory, its own complacency, 669. Not itself castigated, the parent of pride, 146. Excess from the goal according to God, 186, 190, 575. Contention of vain glory; its lover, and the goal, 449. The mind of one laboring in vain glory, 439, 440. Vain glory in the offices of one's neighbor, 616. From riches and poverty: monk and secular, 441. From victory inclined to shameful affections: its stains, secret labor and justice, 457. The end of the Incarnation, human salvation, and its mode explained, 367. Incarnate from the Holy Spirit, 305. Mode of beginners and the perfect, by reasons of the commandments, 537. Supreme incorruption, and its security and firmness, 481. Chastisement of the ungrateful, poverty of gifts, 560. Degrees of bearing injuries, 614. Pardoning injuries, an example of virtue for God, 365. Double reward for those who forgive, 364. Envy from the spiritual progress and knowledge of others, 465. How it is to be calmed in us and another, 442. The invisible things of God known from things; his eternal power and divinity, the Creator of things himself, the blessed Trinity, etc., 30, 31. Wrath of God first, and second in those hardened, 145. Causes of wrath to be cut off, not the station to be deserted, 400, 401. Wrath of God on the proud and ungrateful, 562, 563. Remedies for wrath. The irascible, the timid, 451. Tempering the affection of the mind for the one composing wrath, 405.
A Fighting a father's wrath is graver, to be curbed by charity, 402, 403, 404. Wrath, the continuous motion of fervor, sober madness, the tenor of fervor, 172, 173. Wrath turned into charity toward God, 417. Exotic, that which makes one outside the things that are, 172, 182.
J. The tropology of Jacob's well, 540. James, brother of the Lord, author of the Epistle under the name of James, 19. The tropology of Jephthah offering his daughter, 517. Joab having struck the Valley of Salt, 536. Greater than John, who is less in the kingdom of heaven, 517. Jonah, multiplex by the etymology of his voice; Jonah in Joppa, in the sea, in the whale, in Nineveh, under the gourd; a figure of Adam, of Christ, of the prophetic office, of the ungrateful Jewish people, 150, 151, 152 ff. Jonah lamenting the gourd, 261, 262, etc., 608. The tropology of his canticle, 607. The tropology of Jonathan, 254. Joppa, an allegory; paradise, virtue, and flight of Jonah from it, 253, 254, 255, 256.
The Jew, by the figures of spiritual truth; bearing the image of the earthly, not the heavenly, 553, 554. The *typos* of the Jews. The spirit of ardor, tumor of pride, and emulation, 263, 264, 265. Judas, king, 340. Judas and Benjamin building a house to the Lord, 183, 186 ff., 190, 191. Judas, confession; the confession of praise itself, humble and modest, 185, 186.
Solicitous expectation of judgment, 665. Ignorance of the day of judgment, all through Jesus Christ and the Word, 39. Of those to be judged whose works are mixed, 303. The stupor of rash judgment, the judgment of a most imperfect mind, 455, 456. The allegory of the judge's iniquity, 636, 657. Human, angelic, divine justice, 305. Justice toward oneself, 449.
L. All things of labor from the origin, 563. The labor of mind and body, a companion to virtue or vice, 197, 198. Labors from the will, and those which are unwilling, causes, 611. God's justice and power in restoring, 594, 595. The grace of tears, 647. The power of tears against vice, 656. Lamech, historically and tropologically, 506. B Legal matters must necessarily be explained by allegory. Circumcision, New Moons, Sabbaths, the Crown of benignity, etc., 284, 285, 286, 288, 289, 298, 299. A leper in part, unclean: in whole, clean, 552. The Law given more principally to Christians, 81. Natural law, written, grace, 611, 612. The work of the threefold law, 548. The Law itself spiritual, and the Gospel. The shadow of the Law for the sake of beginners, 482. Liberation from the law of sin, 548. To justify the doer of the law, and to fall from grace, those who are justified in it, 38. The Sabbath of the Law and the Evangelical, 469. Legal symbols to be examined by natural speculation, 618. Legal matters must necessarily be explained by allegory, 284, 285, 286, 288, 289, 291, 299. Laws of nature and intellect said, 666. To transfer the laws of brutes into one's own law; not one's own law into their laws, 140.
The tree of life, and not life; but of the knowledge of good and evil. Wisdom and not wisdom; mind and sense: by which the discretion of spiritual and sensible things, and of pleasure and pain. The good of mind and sense, not by one acceptance of the word, 97, 98, 99. The multiplex allegory of the tree of life, and knowledge of good and evil. Man's exclusion from the tree of life, 540, 541. That it be an interdict to the tree of science, 10. Smoking flax, 308. Letter, spirit; death, life, 619. The letter killeth, 237. The place of the just is God, 131, 132, 475. The place of pasture, etc., 426, 427. The place of the admirable tabernacle, 115. Liberty of speaking, the cause of all evils, 660. *Locutuleius* (the babbler), a vain boaster, 467. Lamps in Christ, in the Church, in the faithful, 158, 245, on the candelabrum. A powerful lamp, 601. Loins girt, etc., 455. *Odunē* (ὠδίνη), pain of mind: *odynē* (ὀδύνη), of body, 425, 459. The spiritual wolf, explorer of the freedom of the brethren, 496. Spiritual and corporal light: the necessity of both, 587.
M. *Makrothumia* (μακροθυμία) and gentle patience. The way to prepare it. Examples in David and Job, 376, 377. Evil from where, or sin. Motion against nature, the beginning, rest in the way of God, 57. The process of evil, 668. Guarding against its beginnings, 669. Evil is the deviation of the mind from the end, and the author of things. C Universal evil, ignorance of God, from it, of creatures, contempt of God, deification, 7, 8, 9, 10. Evil through abuse of the powers of the soul. Evil in demons; in them, preceding good, 427. The necessary tolerance of evils, 440, 615, 616. The fruit of evils from God. It is grave to strive against them, 59. Punishment of evils from God and of spiritual things. God's counsel in these, 531, 532.
The necessity of all commandments proclaimed. Virtue from heaven to perform them, collected in the charity of God and neighbor, 368, 369, 370. Not impossible, 371. Mystical manna, the Word of God, 483. The distinction of mansions in heaven, from whence, 508. Fishing for pearls, 508. Mary Magdalene repulsed from the Lord's touch, 498, 639. Right cheek struck, to turn the other, 308. Maximus's greatest modesty, 2, 275, 601, 636. Fear not chastely enough usurped in doctrine; feigned piety, nor vows of faith preserved, 232. Divine Scripture frequently read to him, 266. Maximus's difficult chapters which seem plain, pillars of charity and other works. Briefly and more simply said to him, those very things arduous to understand, 595. Maximus's promised work on virtues and vices, 6. A work of scholia, and the obtestation concerning them, 13, 14. In parables, and the spiritual sense of all things in them, excessive anxiety, 638. Remedies for health, 440. The middle wall, and partition, 600. Melchisedec spiritual, 628. Pure mind and spirit, 399. The quadruple unevenness of the mind, 452. The perfect mind, 445. The highest operation of the mind, apt to suffer divine things. An insigning form, 296, 297. The identity of the mind with God, in a simple motion around Him, 56, 57. The vicarious offices of mind and sense, 607. The discretion of these, and of good and evil, 541, 542. The genuine operation of the mind, 449. Rest in the understood thing, 629. Consideration of the mind free from vices and those to which it is subject: proofs of *apatheia*, 406, 407. Human mind, intermediate between the offices of angel and demon, 442, 445. In what things a clean mind may be occupied, 407, 408. Mesopotamia burned, and Syria Soba, 336, 337. Harvest, God's harvest; double harvest of the promised land, 469, 470. Lesser things, the basis and substance of greater, 646, 648. Mercy in weights, 521. The promised land to the meek, 552. Moab a pot of hope, 540, 541. Moab and the Ammonites proscribed from the Church of God, 551.
A monk, whose mind is abstracted from earthly things, 418. Inner and outer man, 450. The threefold degree of perfection, 424. The salvation of a monk, 240. The monk's habit, tonsure, colobium, '*anabos*' (ἀνάβας), etc., 326, 327. Memory of death and of God, 654. The death of the just, parent of eternal life, 596. No one to be praised before death, 319. True death and life, 425. An angel threatening Moses with death because of his son's foreskin, 56, 57, 58. Moses's tabernacle outside the camp and the darkness; the descent with radiant face from commerce with God, 480. A woman praying with her head not veiled. Her head is man. Shaven woman. Having power over her head because of the angels, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56. The mule placed in praise and vituperation. Absalom's mule, and its tragedy, 174, 175. The world perceptible by mind and sense: one in the other by reasons and figures, 217, 219. The world in the world, man, 666. The crucified world, 657. The world of virtues, into which he who comes is illuminated by the Word, 235, 248. Myriad, unity in the matter itself: beginning and end: unity in motion and unmoved. Four myriads, four virtues, progress, *anabasis* (ἀνάβασις), 168, 169, etc. The collection of myriads, 180, 181.
N. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, type of the devil; the kings of the nations delivered to him; the beasts delivered, 60, 61. Type of the law of nature. Exposition of his vision, 61, 62. Nature instituted and its reparation, 587. The restitution of nature to itself through Christ, 347. In God the Word, outside of place and time, 287. Stain from self-love; restoration from charity, 520. Natural speculation to be curbed in him who is imperfect, 550, 553, 554. The tyranny of the most wicked overthrown, 548. Nineveh, the great city of God (that is, the Church of the nations), 265, 266. Its overthrow after three days: the triduum of truth in Christ; in Jonah, a figure. Nineveh overthrown and not overthrown, 266, 267, 268. A city great in a three days' journey; by the law of nature, written and of grace, 269, 270, 373. Allegory of the penance of the Ninevites. The King of Nineveh, 257.
A and to the left, 239, 260, 271. Intellect, nowhere simple except in God. The mind's excess in the Monad, 479, 480. Conjecture of things notional, 27. Opinion of Nyssen, affections contracted from sin, 525. 0. Octave, octave of the resurrection, 471, 472, 473. Octonary, the immovable state of the future, 177, 184. Eye. If your eye scandals you, etc., 313. Olive from the right and left of the candlestick, 605, 606, 607. Two olives, 241, 242, 245, 249. Wild ass, unicorn, free, 661. Works, commanded and voluntarily offered, 453. Diligence of work, 667. Unequal reward for workers, yet just, 667. Spiritual ascent of the praying person with Christ, 488. A praying person who is barbaric and insane, 667. The character of a praying person, like that of a child; the varied scope of those praying, 651. Degrees of prayer, 662. The power of prayer toward divine charity, 396. The most perfect state of prayer, and what it is to pray without ceasing and to dwell with God, 578, 579, 420. Companions of prayer, divine virtues, 666. Prayer, a vow, 129, 359. The prayer of the just is effective (ἐνεργουμένη), of great power, 191, 192, 578, 579. Diligence in prayer, 658. A veil in prayer, 639. Simplicity of prayer from tranquility of action, 555. Obstacles to prayer: the love of beauty and the love of honor. Reconciling equality in it, 667. Prayer of the imperfect and the perfect, 660. Insistence of the mind in prayer, etc., 519. Prayer as a staff against demons, the sword of prayer: seeds, oracles of the Psalms, 662. The stillness of prayer: to this, action is to be joined for contemplation. An index of the love of God, 408, 409. Assiduous in prayer and charity, full of all divine gifts, 418. Prayer, the parent of joy. The power of assiduous prayer. The fruits of prayer, 650. The cultivation of virtues for it. The companion of prayer, humility. Its perseverance. Vacancy and leisure for prayer. The power of its tears, the key to the kingdom of heaven, 651. Confidence in prayer. Its triple degree. The fiery mind from prayer. The prayer of beginners and those making progress. Prayer as a pillar of cloud. Compunction in prayer, a divine gift, 652. Prayer, arduous for beginners, 653. Purity of mind from prayer and firm adherence to God, 378, 379. The mind in it, collected and wandering. The salt and mode of prayer, the attacking demons. Prayer, bread, oil, wine, 661. In the Lord's Prayer, the whole scope and goal is our deification from God through Christ. Its seven mysteries, theology, adoption, equal honor to angels, etc., 345, 346. Its summary, 349. B Orient beneath, 162. Orient, sun and setting. Sun without setting. Sun exalted and the Word, drawing into its own place, 492. Whence the pit of ostentation, 428. Ozias, a type of the Lord for a time: in him are set forth those things which are his. Having vinedressers in Carmel. Of a mind seeking God, in the fear of the Lord, etc., 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115. P. Bread, divine and vital. "Today"; the same is daily for the nourishment of the body, from the care of which we are not discharged, 350. Unreasonable (παράλογον), by excess and defect: on the right and on the left. Outside this and nature, he who holds the citadel of virtue, in the whole world, 261, 272. A paralytic let down from the roof, 325. A paralytic at the pool commanded to carry his bed, 478, 479. Preparation of the works of justice, 473. The preeminence of spiritual parents over carnal ones, 153, 161. The true Pascha, prepared by Peter and John for the sent ones. The cenacle spread, etc., 17, 18, 19. Father and Word, in every command to be taken up. He who clings to the letter does not hold it, 501, 502. The Father judges no one, 580. I went out from the Father, and I leave the world, etc., 509. Recompensing the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, 311. Passions, vices and affections. To Paul: lust, libido. Indications of apathy, 406, 411. That to be done by suffering is more divine than to know, 635. Divine suffering, 614. Patience, the house of prayer; humility, its substance, 647. The safeguard of virtues, 617. The power of the patience of the saints, 608. Paul's miracles in others; in himself, the destruction of death. The grace lying hidden in him excited by the faith of those praying: handkerchiefs taken from his skin. Paul's Maltese shipwreck: the hanging viper, and shaken into the fire, 82, 83, 84, 538. An odor from life unto life; from death unto death, 558, 559. Paul, C in a prophetic spirit, more obedient to charity and the Apostolic rule, 71, 72, 73. Scales on Paul's eyes, 503. Victory of demons in his flesh and in his rivals, 574. The evangelical poor man: possession with lust and without lust, 424. Peace with God, and the peace of the world, 519. Peace that edifies, 472. Prior to peace and charity, purity of mind and body, 472. Sin of origin, in our passible nature, which grew from transgression, 42, 43, 44. Disobedience, offspring from it, division, from its division, a gathering, 485, 486. Origin of sin. The law in those reborn through Christ abolished; death to them for the destruction of sin, 219. The sin of man, total destruction, 416. Mortified by sins; living by the Spirit, 589. To be ascribed to sins are those evils which happen, 117. Deterrents from sin, 422, 423. Sin from the mind, and as if involuntarily, 501, 642. The beginning, the end from sin, to be found at the end, 206, 208. Pastors of cattle and of sheep, 418. Breastplate and shoulder of priests, 101, 102, 513. Love of money, 28. Their praised care, 429. Pelican of the wilderness, 310, 311. Pentecost, 622. A stranger from the flesh and from the Lord, 408. Degrees of perfection, 654. Ladder of perfection, virtue, contemplation, theology, 456, 461, 533. The order and ladder of perfection, and the knowledge of the most high Trinity itself, 407. Fruits of perfection in the present age, and the future, 485. Perjurer, breaker of vows, 132, 133. To ask, to seek, to knock, 586, 587. To seek the kingdom of God, etc., 537, 538. Peter, as Satan to the Lord, 303. Peter released from the Herodian prison, 51, 529. Peter's necessary revelation for opening the door to the Gentiles, 64, 65, 66, 67. Pharaoh, a type of the devil and of the law of nature, 60. Philautia, a blind love of the body and carnal, what it suggests to the monk, what to the secular, 419. The parent of all vices; pride is its end, 8, 9, 409, 496. Its opposites, charity and continence. Love of the flesh praised. Love of the flesh and of God are contrary, 27, 28. Philautia is spiritual love, and for what it is a cultivation of mind and virtues, 11. Having praise and vituperation, 521. The three duties of philosophy, 635. Photius' censure of Maximus' style toward Thalassius. Mystical senses partly invented by Maximus' authorship, partly collected from others, 14, 15. The Two Hundred Chapters vindicated to him by Maximus, 461. Five hundred not seen. Pilate, Herod; one sending Jesus to the other, 176, 177. The three days of the crowd with Christ. Powers of the soul. The triple Law. In them is the reward of assiduity, and food. The Law is also light, with Christ as the author of light. A lamp to the feet, the written law, a light, the spiritual grace of the law, 86, 87, 88. The fullness of divinity even in us, 489. D Pleonexia (covetousness) in Paul's sense exposed as gluttony, ministering to the passion and to lust, 406. Penance not from the mind, 612. Entrance of the high priest into the Holy of Holies, 480. Precept. No excuse against the precept of God, 459. Power of preaching among pressures, 256. Presence, a mirror and enigma of future things, 543. The Practical (τό πρακτικόν), the passive part of the soul, 214, 219. Spiritual firstfruits, 637. Approved, perfect, entire, 194, 198, 582. To endure reproaches and injuries, an arduous thing, 660. With providence and judgment, in the union and passion of the universe, 215, 219. Oracles of the Psalms, seeds of prayer, 662. To sing in the spirit, to sing also with the mind, 300. Take up a psalm, and give the timbrel, 307. The beautiful and the good are the same; its author is God in us, 670. Scandal of the little ones; the millstone, 319. Wells of the prophets, in which is the fountain of Christ, 494. Q. Chariot from the bronze mountains, 246, 249. To seek the face of the Lord, 487, 488. To ask, to seek, etc., 589, 590. That we should seek the Word from us: in heaven, in the abyss, 195, 194. The number five, all spherical, and movable in itself, 177, 184. R. Rapsaces speaking in Jewish, 120. Reason, anger, desire, through which we are assiduous to God, 559. The kingdom of God more ancient than the ages, 506. Image of the eternal kingdom, 571. The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God are distinct.
INDEX OF MATTERS
A Reasoning. The kingdom of God and the Father. The kingdom of God within us, 508, 509, 665. The religious struggle against lusts, 455. The tenor of their useless discipline without charity. Pharisaic evils multiplied against them, 385. The lamentations of Jeremiah, and others full of compunction, 586, 587. All the evils of the ancient people; rebukes, spiritual surgery. The fruits of these, etc., 614. A dead thing, because they do not live of themselves, 493. Nothing in them is without beginning or absolutely perfect, 462, 463. The abuse of things is forbidden, not the things themselves, 455.
S Sabbath mystically, 620. To pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, 468. Sabbath, Sabbaths; the Sabbath of Sabbaths, Moses observing the Sabbath, 469. God's Sabbath, 470. Priests and bishops celibate among Christians, 515. The age of the kingdom of God more ancient than the ages and beyond, 505, 506. Times for performing deification and for suffering, 45, 46, 47. Ornaments of the secular, detriments to monks, 441. The five husbands of the Samaritan woman, 93, 94. Samuel the priest slaying Agag, and confounding Saul, 497. The true and the feigned wise man, 464. The wise man fearing for his books, 436. Wisdom, unity, the supreme of gifts, 163, 568, 569. Nothing is an intermediary for wisdom with God, 210. Fear and love; in the beginning and in the end, 184, 574. Full of the grace of the Spirit, 178. Saul and Agag, the allegory of both, 291, 292, 294. B Turning from Saul toward idolatry, 196, 497. Saul’s first and second anger, 145. His desperate salvation, 144. His sons and grandsons crucified on the mountain because of the vexed Gibeonites, 276, 277, 284, 297. Scenopegia (Feast of Tabernacles), 622. Knowledge. Pre-preparation for knowledge: charity must be joined, so that it may build up, 451, 452. Virtue, 477. Knowledge unrestrained by fear, 179. Corporal knowledge, animated action, 606, 607. The order of knowledge and virtue, 535. Knowledge that puffs up and that which is modest, 569. Why knowledge is denied to some. Knowledge in habit and in act, 463, 466. The parent of knowledge is knowing what you do not know, 440. Scripture, man; flesh and spirit: never aging in spirit, 121, 127, 128, 481, 482. Its voices and names, not to be taken in one way. Etymology of Hebrew words, 250, 602. All things in Scripture spoken mystically and in a spiritual sense, 178. Bread of corn, bread of angels in a spiritual sense, 21. Literal sense not sufficiently explained by Maximus, 284. The path not straight; the prepared way, etc., 516, 547, 548. Sense, the parent of opinion, 234, 248. The author of idolatry. The sense of life and soul, 603. Custody of the senses, 668. Spiritual perception of the senses, 584. The just man shall fall seven times, etc., 518. Seventh; the rest of the seventh day, God’s seventh rest, 471, 472, 473. The linen cloths and the napkin of the sepulcher; those caring for Christ’s burial; placing seals and guards, 473, 474. Prudent in speech and in mental sense, 643. Chaste speech of the mouth, 641. The word *rhētōrikos* (rhetorical), 613. The method of writing speech, and its power and contempt, 426. The interior word, *Logos*, instituted reason; its excellence; the perfection of the sum of man; the commerce of the divine Spirit therein, 13. Servants, mercenaries, sons, 438, 460. Hebrew servants and aliens, 172, 173, 571, 572. The rest of servants and beasts on the Sabbath, 499, 500. God’s servitude and creature. True servitude and worship of God, 9, 10, 11. Sixth, Seventh, Eighth. The sixth day in legal usage and evangelical, 471, 472, 473. Silence good and evil. Silence, hearing, clamor, 466, 467. Companions of silence, 643. In silence, and in the withdrawal from all things, a firm adherence to God, 479, 480. Sign of hostility; the passion to be overcome in us and in others, 442. Grain of mustard, the word of God; the Lord himself, and faith, 486. The natural law of the sun, 139. The sun was lifted up, 514. Sun against Gibeon, etc., 492. The flesh and sense of the spiritual man, 14. Ends of spiritual things, the beginnings of others, and continuous progress, 468. The common breathing of the Holy Spirit; the same as peculiar, 527, 528. The principal Spirit and that of free will, 679. To walk in the Spirit, 452. The Holy Spirit, on the tenth day from the Lord’s ascension, 323. Spirit, gifts of the Spirit; in them one is more divine than another, which is more to be obeyed, love, 71, 72, 73, 534. The Spirit of the Son, because through him from the Father in mind, 313. From the Father through the Son in ineffable union and distinction. The iris taken as an example, 671, 672. The Spirit incorrupt in all, in those who are under the law, and those who are in Christ, 32, 33. Gifts of the Spirit, the Spirit itself. Another not obeying a more divine breathing and spirit in him, 71, 72, 73. To hope. Those who hoped before in Christ, 305. The happiness of the (first) state, 634. *Stēlographian* (for) David, 553, 557. To superedify. If anyone builds upon... gold, silver, etc., 329, 330. Pride a two-edged precipice. From it one despising a brother denies divine aid, 415, 416. Pride arising from ignorance of God and ourselves, 547. A vice confused on both sides, 186, 190. Nature of the proud and the humble, 655. The proud man concealing the virtue of others and detracting from them, 474. Whisperers, pestiferous serpents, 448.
T Tabernacle, image of wisdom, 481. To bury a talent, and to betray it to enemies, 407. Temptation which you should pray against, and over which you should rejoice; both are works of evil; the one from the will, the other involuntary, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 365, 581. Triple temptation and trial, 425. The power of the demon in tempting, 410. Temptation is to be borne, the cause not to be inquired into. The varying mind of those receiving it, 416. New and Old Testament: the one in the other, 481. Commendation of Thalassius the presbyter; the idea of the spiritual man in him, and *gnostikos*, 1, 2, 3. Theological grace, after action and contemplation, a note concerning God, not the reason of God itself. That man is a great theologian who can discover so much, 412, 413. Theology manifested through Christ, 346. Theopemptus, the scholastic to whom Maximus writes, 635. *Theopoiesis*, true deification, 244, 249. Treasures of wisdom and knowledge in us: in the field of the heart, 435. The mundane heart, 454. Remaining fear, and that which charity casts out: chaste and not chaste. Essential to God regarding the creature. Those who fear, those progressing, the perfect; for whom, according to each one’s degree, nothing is lacking, 27, 28, 526, 527. Fear necessary in the beginner, 511. Fear, the shepherd of thoughts, 670. Servile and chaste fear, 36. Mystical transformation; the three tabernacles, 487, 488. Contemplation of the Trinity, having overcome the binary (duality), 666. Faith in the Trinity, and its proof by congruent reason, 355, 356. Knowledge of the Trinity through grace, what it is, not what it is. Superior, in which [is] the indivisible, to understand the reasons of things, and the one and simple [Nature], 484, 485. The Son the name of the Father; the Spirit, the kingdom; the Trinity to us by grace is the Father, 350, 351. Sadness is not good in itself; it is superior in the spiritual man, 620. Good sadness, a companion of bodily pain: useful sadness, 585. Sadness, 579, 580, 581, 582. Sadness common to good and evil, 617. The exploded error of the Tritheites, 413. *Tribis*, *ektribis* (rubbing, wearing away), 108. Tunic defiled by the flesh: glorious tunic, 50. Whence you may discern a clean and unclean tunic, 514. Typhus (pride), arrogance, a vice mixed of pride and vain glory, 611. The king of Tyre, a type of the devil, and of natural law, 60.
U Perfection of anointing specific to a bishop, 412. Unity, the presence of divine light, 629.
V The Word of God is a lamp and light, 542. Ascending to the Father, and on earth, 493, 496. Illuminating all who come into the world, 602. The Angel of the Great Council, declaring the mind from which he proceeded, etc., 489, 490. The form of the Word from common usage, and that which is more divine, 482, 483. The continuous cross of the Word, resurrection, ascension: advent, the one the precursor of the other, 490, 491. The flesh of the Word is to be eaten, the blood to be drunk: the bones are not to be broken, 79, 80. The Word [made] flesh; the progression from the Word in the flesh to the Word God, 498, 499. Chaff, hay, fountain, water, etc., 500, 501. The betrayal and denial of the Word, 520. In us, according to our measure, the Word is continuously the cross and resurrection and ascension; in the saints, a continuous advent; the first is the precursor of the second; not subjection, etc., 490, 491. Truth and judgment, united gifts, 618. Truth by the negation of all things according to excellence, 169. Way in the way, the way in Christ, 422. Victims, sheep, ox, goat, turtledove, pigeon, 532, 533. The blood of Christ, given to us in the chalice, 81, 82. Tropology of wine made from water, 529.
Man praying with head covered. Christ is the head of the man; God, of Christ, 57, 53, 54, 45, 56. The end of the virtues and knowledge, 431. The end of virtue and of contemplation, 563. The chorus of the virtues, 645. The couplings of the virtues, 645. The end of the labors of virtue is God to be enjoyed, the course to be urged, 561. The end and mode of virtue, 610. The mediocrity of virtue, 667. The order of the virtues: necessary discretion, 641. Simple and continent in virtue, 669. Of virtue, action, speculation, deification, 632. Virtues opposed to vices, and cessation from them, 655. The winding path of virtue from vices, 187, 190. Exorbitance from it, 188, 191. The true cultivator of virtue and inane appearance, 644. Corporeal virtues not always to be urged, 419. Holy virtues, which are those suggesting honorable things, 415. The two lives: in the midst of two lives, 247. Vices, universal and original. Ignorance, philautia, tyranny, 518, 469. Vice by excess and by defect, 517. The calf in the valley, subnervated, 324. The molten calf, being one, and God. Its breaking and inebriation, 34, 53, 56, 524. The effects of reproach and of praise, 645. Volitions of the good pleasure of God; of providence, of permission, 307. Sin of the will, and of nature: the latter Christ assumed, that He might abolish the former, 95, 96. Pleasure and pain of soul and body, contraries. The one follows virtue, the other vice, 197, 198. ‘Απάθεια, with no fear of these, 521, 522. Salutary pleasure, 516. Its rejected rewards, 634. Libidinous pleasure, 647. Fulfillment of vows, 602.
**Z** Zechariah’s flying sickle, allegory regarding Christ, 226, 227, 230, 231. Seeking, searching, 200, 205, 206, 207, 208. Tares until the harvest, 308. Zorobabel’s speech: allegory of the disputation: confession of grace, 151, 152. His departure from Darius: elevation to heaven, 166, 180. Allegory of the stated sentences, 153, 154, 161, 162. Allegory regarding Christ, 155, 156. Zorobabel’s restoration of the temple; his construction, which is more excellent than the former. The tin-like stone; the seven eyes. This one allegory is to be expounded regarding Christ, 157, 158, 159, 163, 164.
ORDER OF SUBJECTS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
ST. MAXIMUS THE ABBOT. Notice from the Fabrician library. 9 Dedication Letter. 51 Preface of Combefis. 53 Life and conflict of St. Maximus. 67 Acts of the same. 110 Notes of Combefis on the life of St. Maximus. 222 Notes of the same on the acts and conferences. 230 Admonition on the Questions to Thalassius. 242 QUESTIONS TO THALASSIUS ON HOLY SCRIPTURE 244 Prologue. 244 Question I. 267 II. 270 III. 271 IV. 275 V. 278 VI. 279 VII. 283 VIII. 283 IX. 286 X. 287 XI. 291 XII. 294 XIII. 294 XIV. 295 XV. 298 XVI. 299 XVII. 303 XVIII. 306 XIX. 307 XX. 307 XXI. 311 XXII. 318 XXIII. 325 XXIV. 327 XXV. 330 XXVI. 339 XXVII. 351 XXVIII. 359 XXIX. 365 XXX. 367 XXXI. 370 XXXII. 371 XXXIII. 374 XXXIV. 375 XXXV. 378 XXXVI. 379 XXXVII. 382 XXXVIII. 390 Question XXXIX. 391 XL. 393 XLI. 403 XLII. 406 XLIII. 410 XLIV. 414 XLV. 418 XLVI. 419 XLVII. 422 XLVIII. 431 XLIX. 446 L. 466 LI. 475 LII. 490 LIII. 502 LIV. 507 LV. 555 LVI. 573 LVII. 590 LVIII. 591 LIX. 603 LX. 619 LXI. 626 LXII. 646 LXIII. 666 LXIV. 694 LXV. 735 QUESTIONS AND DOUBTS. 786 EXPOSITION ON PSALM LIX. 853 BRIEF EXPOSITION OF THE LORD’S PRAYER. 871 ASCETIC BOOK. 911 CHAPTERS ON CHARITY. Century I. 989 Century II. 985 Century III. 1018 Century IV. 1047 CHAPTERS OF THEOLOGY AND ECONOMY. Century I. 1083 Century II. 1123 CHAPTERS FIVE HUNDRED. Century I. 1178 Century II. 1222 Century III. 1259 Century IV. 1305 Century V. 1347 QUESTIONS TO THEOPEMPTUS. 1394 OTHER CHAPTERS. 1402 EXCERPT FROM THE WORK OF 213 DOUBTS. 1452 Analytical Indices. 1465
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