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A For if, leaving aside the tongue and running past those B or those athletes who receive [it], you should be willing to fix your mind upon the discourse itself and to gaze upon the torch of the soul within, the small things will not appear small to you, but rather things lacking nothing at all, the debts being paid to you by us; since we know that God does not seek hymns according to their worth, but the fire of the heart, from which they proceed. For this reason, all things that fill creation, although unequally, yet in accordance with the capacity of their nature, are stirred to hymns of the Creator; and those of the animals that are vocal hymn Him with proportional voice, but the sea, and the earth, and stones, and snows also hymn Him, sending up a silent and unspeakable hymn, and God receives all things kindly. If, indeed, a crown of olive was woven for the Olympic victors, and not one of silver or gold, it is clear from this, too, that one should look not at the nature of what is given, but at the intention of the one awarding it. Do not, therefore, look at the crown being forged and braided for you from the logical vessels—if it be small and least worthy of your greatness—but look instead at the soul that is weaving it, with how much and what kind of eagerness it heaps up the matter of praises, and what kind of fuel it casts for such a fire; and you might see, as through a mirror, in some of these small syllables, treasures of pure faith and precious things of burning desire. But may the King of kings and almighty Lord transmit the royal power to you for long ages with great cheerfulness, so that it may be a cause of joy for your subjects also for long cycles of years.
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NICEPHORUS GREGORAS BYZANTINE HISTORY. (Continuation.) BOOK TWENTY-FIFTH. BOOK TWENTY-SIXTH. BOOK TWENTY-SEVENTH. BOOK TWENTY-EIGHTH. BOOK TWENTY-NINTH. BOOK THIRTIETH, first of the dogmatics. BOOK THIRTY-FIRST, second of the dogmatics. BOOK THIRTY-SECOND, third of the dogmatics. BOOK THIRTY-THIRD, fourth of the dogmatics. BOOK THIRTY-FOURTH, sixth of the dogmatics. BOOK THIRTY-FIFTH, seventh of the dogmatics. BOOK THIRTY-SIXTH. BOOK THIRTY-SEVENTH. MARTYRDOM OF ST. CODRATUS AND HIS COMPANIONS. In Corinth in the Peloponnese. SCHOLIA ON SYNESIUS, On Dreams. FRAGMENTS FROM THE DIALOGUE TITLED Florentius.
EPISTLES OF NICEPHORUS GREGORAS I. — To the prefect of the table. II. — To Zaridas. III. — To the megas domesticus. IV. — To the same. V. — To Xanthopoulos. VI. — To Joseph. VII. — To the Patriarch. VIII. — Without inscription. IX. — Without inscription. X. — To the megas oikonomos Beccus. XI. — Without inscription. XII. — To Glabas, Metropolitan of Thessalonica. XIII. — To Soteriotes, protonotary of Thessalonica. XIV. — To Joseph the philosopher. XV. — To the megas domestikos. XVI. — To Theodulus the monk. Exists among the Epistles of Theodulus, tom. CXLV, col. 425. Nicephori Gregora Prologue to Homer’s Odyssey, briefly sketching the poet’s character.
NILUS CABASILAS, METROPOLITAN OF THESSALONICA. Notitia from Allatius’ Diatribe on the Nili. ON THE DISSENSION OF THE CHURCHES. ON THE PRIMACY OF THE POPE. CONFUTATION OF NILUS, by Joannes Matthaeus Caryophyllus, Archbishop of Iconium, to Pope Urban VIII, the Supreme Pontiff. NILUS’ ENCOMIUM OF GREGORY PALAMAS.
THEODORUS MELITENIOTA, ARCHDEACON OF THE GREAT CHURCH Notitia from Allatius on the Theodori. Angelo Mai’s Introduction. SERMONS. First Ethical Sermon. — That no one can harm a man endowed with virtue; and that he who lives dishonestly fears and trembles at everyone. Second Ethical Sermon. — That virtue is not difficult or laborious, if one is willing to live according to it.
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Third Ethical Sermon. — That we ought to obtain spiritual ears from God; and once these are received, we should listen entirely to the physicians of our souls, whenever we are in need of spiritual healing. 898
Fourth Ethical Sermon. — That it is a great detriment to be ignorant of the Scriptures. And that the members of virtue are more beautiful than any fair body. And what these are. And that the apostles are perfect images of virtue. And that nothing prevents us, if only we are willing, from becoming the equals of the apostles. 903
Fifth Ethical Sermon. — That all those who are addicted to the desires of the devil, especially the greedy, differ in nothing from those possessed by demons. 913
Sixth Ethical Sermon. — On patience and long-suffering. From the history of Job and David. 919
Seventh Ethical Sermon. — That the glory and honor of men is to be shunned, as it profits nothing, yes, it actually harms our soul in the greatest degree. And that principalities and powers are not to be sought after: not because it is an evil to rule over men; for this too is from God, and a task in itself desirable; but because they discharge this office poorly; and therefore they receive from it harm. 939
Eighth Ethical Sermon. — On the tremendous, divine, immaculate, and life-giving mysteries of Christ. And that the reception of these becomes salvation for the worthy, but for the unworthy, punishment. 946
Ninth Ethical Sermon. — That we ought to be sober and vigilant, keeping in mind the dire fall of Judas. And against avarice. 953
Fragments from the book on astronomy by Theodorus Meliteniota. 987
Georgius Lapitha. 1009
Moral Poem. 1047
Catalogue of the books of the monastery of the island of Patmos in the fourteenth century. 1047
Index of Greek terms for the entire Byzantine History of Nicephorus Gregoras. 1151
Index to the final books of the Byzantine History of Nicephorus Gregoras. 1063
Addenda. — Address of Nicephorus Gregoras to the Emperor Andronicus Palaeologus III. 1067
THE END OF VOLUME ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE.
Parisiis. — Ex Typis J.-P. MIGNE.