-Discipline (or Way of Life): succession of, 60, 96-7, 304; each has its own time, 107, 379; of the body, of the mind, of the spirit, 213-5; of soul and body, 234; of faith, 257; spiritual, 257, 262; progress in, 311.

-Discretion. See Discernment.

-Dispassion: 257; works combined with stillness produces, 173; and mourning, 178; explanation of, 298-9; sign of, 326; definition of, 347-8; cannot be achieved outside of the state of stillness, 395.

-Dispersion. See Distraction.

-Distraction (or Dispersion, Wandering): from activity of senses, 4; of works confuses the intellect, 53; when despised, one beholds the Lord, 84; arises from relaxation of members and despondency, 154; conquered by study of spiritual knowledge, 157; produced by worldly wisdom, 234; gives birth to the passions, 235; born of lassitude in works, vain conversation, or full stomach, 269; reading gives weapon against, 318; when the soul is found in spacious freedom, 362.

-Divine Vision (or theoria): and praxis, 7, 13, 378; filters out the noetic part of soul, 13; must be preceded by praxis, 13; virtue incomplete without, 14; a second soul, 14; is spirit of revelation 14; is perception of divine mysteries, 14; of the Deity is soul's supernatural state, 18; primary theoria, divine theoria, 23n; and humility, 32; of God's judgments, 33; and tears, 34, 83; simplicity of, 34; effects of, 36; in the Kingdom, 56; belonging to the virtues is the wing of the intellect, 59; soul of good man gladdened by, 85; drives away demons, 86; gives birth to fervor, 96; definition of, 113, 114; of the angels, 113-4; file for the mind, 134; uniformity and ununiformity of, 135-6; of Divinity given by grace alone, 139; of Divinity possible for angels because of Christ's incarnation, 139; when lacking, 156, occupation of the discerning intelligence, 156n; causes spiritual love, 157; preceded by knowledge of God, 161; steals away the awareness of the world, 161; is spiritual prayer, 183; immaterial, 213; of God's glory, 213; hypostatic, 214; falling away from vision of God, 215; the faith of, 227; sweetness of enters the labors of repentance, 232; that is produced by recollection of death, 238-9; that results from righteous works and repentance, 239-40; beginning of spiritual, 240; into the verses of psalmody is born of stillness, 241; swallows up knowledge, 259; desire for, combats the passions, 259; is mortification of the heart, 306; steals away awareness of the passions, 322; noetic vision is natural knowledge, 323; arises from a virtuous way of life, 324; when men strive for without possessing health of soul, 325; of the saints, 348; is the Kingdom of the Heavens, 353; gives birth to consolation, 364; the Spirit of, 384; humility perfects the soul through, 384; fulfills the commandment of the love of God, 378; preceded by praxis, 378-9; of the eternal effulgence is the Kingdom of God, 395.

-Dogma (or Doctrine): flee discussions of, 95.

-Dominions (order of angels), 131, 132.

-Doubt: 242; follows fear, is followed by investigation, 255; ocean of, 284.

-Dreams: impure, 90, 199; angels manifest likenesses of the saints in, 267.

-Drunkenness (or Inebriation): when entrust cares to God, 39; by hope, 60, 236, 347; in awestruck wonder, 121, 179, 263; of the saved through love, 141, 341; with lust, 152; of saints with love, 159; from divine love, 239; of joy, 312; of thoughts, 326; with the love

of God causes insensibility to passions, 363; through remembrance of the Fathers, 370.

-Earnest: 231, 263, 300, 368; of the Kingdom, 11 and n; rest as, 153; through faith, 223; of good things to come bestowed through vigil, 373.

-Ease (or Rest, Repose, Comfort, Leisure): love of prevents divine fervor, 36; gives birth to pleasure of sin, 157; work of, 161; passions aroused by, 170; passions nourished by, born of, 205; devil rejoices over, 205; injures soul more than demons, 235; and a strong body, 235-6; scorn of, 250, 360, 361; no man has ascended to Heaven by, 290; spirit of the devil dwells in those who live in, 293; God restrains His servants from, 294; thoughts of cowardice engendered by, 356; the evil effects of the hope of and search for, 356-7; and possessions, 360-1.

-Economy. See Oeconomy.

-Eli, 75.

-Elias (Elijah), the Prophet, 18, 76, 172.

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-Elisseus (Elisha), the Prophet, 23, 55, 76.

-Enemy. See Devil.

-Ephraim, Saint, the Syrian, 43, 301.

-Epiphanios, Abba, 338n.

-Esaias (Isaiah), the Prophet, 49, 259.

-Estrangement: be always a stranger, 33; life of, aids forbearance of wrongs, 50; definition of, 54.

-Eucharist, Holy, 92, 106, 120, 177.

-Euchites. See Messalians.

-Evagrios, Abba, 306 and n, 313, 316.

-Eve, 71.

-Evil: demons cause knowledge of, 138; not implanted in our nature, 138; offspring of free will, 146; let no man suffer through you, 313; take pains to deliver others from, 313.

-Expectation: help provided by, 127-8; of the resurrection, 305.

-Experience: 241, 242; the words of men who speak from, 8, 34, 267; writings from, 32; of heaviness during vigil, 103; of devil in warfare, 193; learned from trials, 200; definition of, 208; requisite for giving advice, 208; teaches all, 220; of evils gives taste for the good, 295; knowledge gained from is sweet and powerful, 295-6; of God's kindness strengthens faith, 334; of the delight of faith, 352; grace teaches by temptations, 355; on men who know from books but not from, 392; is the eye of knowledge, 392.

-Ezekiel, the Prophet, 75, 96.

-Failings. See Shortcomings.

-Faint-heartedness: evils of, 211; humility remedy for, 211.

-Faith: generates the fear of God, 3; power of 4; soul drunk with, 4; and baptism, 9; consolation of, 43; righteous possess instead of knowledge, 65; door to mysteries, 223; natural knowledge precedes, 226; spiritual knowledge follows, 226; of divine vision, 227; a wise solitary guards, 232; is the unveiling of the understanding, 248; from instruction, from inner enlightenment, 248; and knowledge, 253-65; sees divine providence, 253-4; journeys above nature, 254; definition of two faiths, 262, 330; certainty of, 266; made firm by experience of God's help, 296; is heart's weapon, 312; covered by unbelief through heedlessness, 330; pray to experience the delight of, 352; strengthens the senses

of the soul, 352.

-Familiarity, 33, 90, 94.

-Fall: as a dry leaf from a tree, so a man from God, 184, 195; when forget God's gifts, 185; persisting in is total death, 249; do not despair because of, 314.

-Fantasy. See Phantasy.

-Fasting: 247; table of, 88; the faster, 89; and association with men, 89; and vigil, 171; definition and purpose of, 171-3; of Christ, 172; of martyrs, 172-3; fruits of perpetual, 197-8; after conversations cannot keep rule of, 272.

-Fear: sign of absence of wisdom, 8; for soul causes bodily fear to wilt, 15; of soul before lofty things restrains shamelessness, 35; together with love, 135; binds aberration, 136; devil tries to instill in beginners, 189-90; cuts off slothfulness, 198; when suffering temptations, 209; monk dominated by during this life, 231; during time of darkness, 241; of Gehenna, 248, 251, 304; when faith is hidden, 248; accompanies knowledge, 254; for virtue awakens zeal, 274; for the body is satanic, 274; of the Judgment, 297; humble man never possessed by, 349; and the acquiring of possessions, 361; caused by temptations compels the soul to pray, 361.

-Fear of death: scorned, 4; distresses a man with a guilty conscience, 8; when a man is negligent, 297; when a man lives according to the flesh, 297; and carnal man, 297.

-Fear of God: beginning of virtue, 3; offspring of faith, 3, 227; sown in the absence of distraction, 3, 4; beginning of true life, 4; impedes aberration, 6; brings to the Kingdom, 6; and love of God, 22; begets repentance, 223; guides to the spiritual paradise, 223; brings to love, 224-5; born of belief in the Creator, 227; gives birth to spiritual knowledge, 227; humility born of, 244-5; because of love for God, 251; divine providence draws nigh man who has, 276; soul that possesses does not fear anything that harms the body, 290.

-Fervor: expels mourning, 60; from activity that demands violence, 96; from divine vision, 96; begets tears, 96; when chilled, 99; to restore, 103; born of, 198; when man renounces the world, 231; caused by zeal, 273-4; of faith, 312.

-Forgetfulness: 41; of God, 47, 48; teaching from outward matter subject to, 58; of contranatural modes of knowledge, 177; of this world in age to come, 181; nature does not forget its own, 204; of self, 232, 240, 388; of the world through rumination on God, 390.

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-Forgiveness (or Remission, Absolution) of sin: none without repentance, 10; reception known when sin is hated, 141; none without confession, 152; sign of compassion, 230; God's, 314; do not sin expecting, 314; find with thoughts proper to humility, 338; humility even without works gains, 338.

-Fornication: vainglory servant of, 31; thoughts of, through vainglory, 58; because of pride, 104; aroused by satiety, 198-9, 204-5, 325-6; trial of, 210; permitted because a man is uplifted, 229; struggle against by standing, 367; visiting the sick combats, 380.

-Freedom and Free Will (see also Liberty): and reason, 4, 134, 230 and n, 311; do not bind with pleasure, 31; ceases in state beyond prayer, 116, 119; and accidental occurrences, 123; is bound by compulsion, 134, 135, 146; good and evil deeds offspring of, 146; time when abolished, 146; of spirit, 236; abandoned through laxity, 249; not perfect in this imperfect age, 262; of Christ, 300; fatherland of, where nature will be perfect, 341.

-Freedom from possessions (or Poverty, Non-possessiveness): affords time for study of

Scripture, 3; exalts above the world, 37; teaches patience, 38; frees from turmoil of thoughts, 45; requires preparation to endure tribulations, 207; requires casting off the activity of the senses, 207; commandment of, 303; precedes stillness, 304; loved by a humble man, 348; a weapon, 358; causes recollection of departure from life, 360; results of the lack of, 360-1.

-Gehenna (or Hell): figure of, 14; to fall away from the Kingdom is, 57; does not exist with God, 133; a fruit of sin, 133; torment of, 141; and chastisement here, 153; foretaste of, 211; fear of, 248, 251, 304; and the grace of the resurrection, 251; darkness is noetic, 313.

-Gender, Opposite: cause of sin, 41; do not speak with, 94; do not eat with, 95; warfare through beauty of, 194, 205; and conversation with, 244, 361; encountering causes soul of ascetic to lose force, 275.

-Gentleness: beginning of divine wisdom, 243.

-Glory of God: 7; shown to humble of heart, 50; divine vision of, 87; overshadows soul, 91; perceive when hold human glory in contempt, 161; vision and intuitions of, 213; intellect exalted by astonishment at, 214-5; seen by the two eyes of the soul, 223; taste of, 277.

-Gluttony: 250; table of, 88; fruits of, 198-9; produces motions in the body's lower members, 204; mouth of a glutton, 246.

-Goal (or Aim): works having purity as, 7; devil chooses warfare according to a man's, 189; and works, 203; establish for the practice of stillness, 319, 321, 328; set labors and

grief as, 356.

-God: things of, come of themselves, 13, 396; conceived of in material images, 59; not seen by noetic essences, 130; permits devil to tempt men, 194-5; helps men in temptation, 195; property of does not change, 251; looks to the consummation of a man's life, 282; do not make trial of, 291-2; when beheld as He is, 302; union with through pondering on death, 316; love of, for men, 345-6, 355; on being clothed with, 346; bears the burden of our weakness, 375; inclines to a man's will in what is good, 394; when conceived of by passionate man, 396.

-God, gifts of: 69, 209, 372, 373, 391-2; distinctions of in world to come, 55-6; procured through vigil, 101; in divine vision, 116; received during prayer, 121; distinctions in those given to men, 185; before or after a trial, 209; strengthen the will, 278; free of trials are a disaster, 282; what to do when receive, 282.

-God, how to draw nigh to: 3, 233, 297; through temptations, 26; three ways, 53; when

craving God's help, 68, 69.

-God, power of: encompasses zealous, 191; man casts off through self-confidence, 191n; how to know when absent, 195; God does not manifest without need, 291; known when withheld, 296.

-God, things of: come of themselves when the place is clean, 13, 396; abandoned for vainglory, 288; divine vision of, 322.

-God, vision of: 139; in this world and the next, 231; creation could possess without the Incarnation, 381.

-God, wonders of: 179-81; understood from Gospels, 34.

-Good, intellect naturally moved toward, 138; implanted in our nature, 138; offspring of free will, 146; how discerned, 287; taste for acquired by experience of evils, 295.

-Grace: opens eyes, 34; bestowed in the Kingdom, 56; light of, 81; mother of all, 82; of divine vision, 96; and angels, 113; new man of, 121; visitation of, 125; grants the divine

vision of Divinity to angels and men, 139; bestows unceasing prayer, 182; gives fortitude to ascetics, 185; teaches men who entrust themselves to God, 192; and temptations, 208- 9; preceded by humility; 229; sinner cannot be reconciled

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with at the resurrection, 251; of resurrection, 252; of the Spirit, 262; abundantly poured out on man, 272; contrition and compunction bestowed by, 306; action of in discernment, 323-4; enables perception of the truth, 325; habit and, 326; variations with warfare, 336; in working of, 337; enables a man to stand, 338; provides what is profitable for a man, 338; delight of the Kingdom tasted by, 353; the workings of, for those who entrust themselves to God, 354-5; settles on a man, 364; bestows the power of humility on the perfect, 383; reveals God's care and providence to a man 391; manifested through revelation to the intellect, 391; visitation, protection, of during sleep, 392-3; examines for purity, 393; makes the soul's splendor blossom through purity, 394.

-Grave, the (or Tomb): the true Sabbath, 142, 143; Sheol, 166n, 315; is the harvest, 300.

-Gregory, Saint, the Theologian, 32, 121, 248.

-Grief. See Sorrow.

-Habit: 311, 326; subject to the will, 135; renunciation of former, 167; cutting off and forgetting of, 168, 169; fear more than enemies, 245; made stronger by fulfilling desire of, 245.

-Hades (or Sheol): 166, 175, 252, 315, 395, 396.

-Handwork: allocated for the weak, 38; disturbs rule of prayer, 108; do not use for avarice, 270; according to need, 309; secondary work, 333.

-Hatred: of sin, 150, 152; do not have for sinners, 250; of the world, 303-4, 364; of lust born of fear, 304.

-Health: of soul, 32, 243; required for helping others, 57; God's chastisement promotes, 230; sign of, 285; from patience, 298; preserved by vigilance and diligence, 299; signs of, 331-3.

-Heart: when receives the fear of God, 3; purity of, 21; contains the inner senses, 21; beholds the Lord, 84; guarded by hymns, 156n; mediator between senses of body and soul, 158; hope is wisdom of, 203; noetic discipline is work of, 213-4; of monk receives heavenly matter, 232; changed by spiritual consolation, 233; resurrection of senses deadens, 235; boldness of in prayer, 236; when the assaults of the passions do not approach, 298; dead to world is astir in God, 306; progress of, 311; budding of, 311; converse of, 333; merciful, definition of, 344-5; when zealous, body not grieved by tribulations, 357; afflicted by pity is sign of limpid purity, 392; the new heaven is stamped in a pure, 396; spiritual knowledge a pure, 396.

-Heaven. See Kingdom.

-Hell. See Gehenna.

-Help: of God, 67-70, 184-5; given by solitaries to others, 111; given by God to those who help their neighbors, 229-30; when not provided by knowledge, 256; of God necessary to realize the good, 286; without need God does not manifest by a visible sign, 291; of God understood during temptations, 296; experience of produces firm faith, 296; why we do not receive, 387.

-Heresy: a stumbling from which there is no recovery, 18; beware of reading doctrines of heretics, 33.

-Hesychasts. See Solitaries.

-Honor (or Praise): flees the man who desires it, chases the man who does not, 50; from creatures, 50; show to others, 51-2, 229, 236; it seems sweet, 84; despise for the sake of stillness, 217; causes insanity, 284; causes slavery to the world, 306; disdain for, 360.

-Hope (see also Confidence): for present life enfeebles the mind, 61; in God, good and false, 63-6; if die in hope of perfection, still receive, 80; of future things, 156n; in God acquired by doing His will, 203; rejects subservience to the body, 203; temporary loss of, 210; assurance of through divine vision, 213; drunkenness of the joy of, 236; effaced during darkness of soul, 241; produces peace, 248; uplifts, fortifies the heart, 248; with knowledge of the truth, 297; joy of, 311; delight of, 312; effects and action of, 346-7.

-Humility: free of snares, 24; attains to divine vision through self-constriction, 31; brings chastity, 31; mysteries revealed to the humble, 35; of soul honored by God, 42; and almsgiving, 42; receives mercy from God, 50, 354; God shows His glory to the humble, 50; perfection of, 55; test of, 55; prayer of humble man, 59; make man a god upon earth, 60; caused by prayer for divine help, 68; perfects a man's work, 69; anything possessing is comely, 80; humble man has the Lord within him, 84; imitate Christ's, 90; no rest from passions before reaching, 159; fruit of knowledge, 162; taught by warfare, 205; trials of the humble, 209-10; destroys the barriers of

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evils, 211; disperses wickedness, 212; is knowledge of one's weakness, 229; precedes grace, 229; understanding of God's recompenses brings, 230; born of fear of God, of love of God, 244-5; born of joy, 245; and understanding, 247; and peace, 247; true knowledge makes the soul perfect by, 259; recompense given for, 282; born of mourning, 282; protects the labor of great men, 282; beg God for, 284; is light wherein the love of Christ is found, 284; only thing that vanquishes demons, 284; sign of attainment of, 298; beginning of repentance, 306; is perception of God, 306; with discernment is true knowledge, 306; even without works gains forgiveness, 338; all works in vain without, 338; perfection is, 344; definition of, 344; ways of acquiring, 345; on the special characteristics of, 348-50; and faith, 351; is the raiment of the Godhead, 381; on the loftiness of, the nature of, and how to acquire, 381-5; on the humble man, 382-5; through gift of wonder, 391.

-Husbandry. See Works.

-Idleness: of intellect causes pollution, 12; of stillness, 32, 317, 375, 380; causes diffusion of the mind, 80; lovers of, 108; conceals sure death, 151; is darkness, 233; injures soul more than demons, 235; and a strong body, 235-6; protraction of prayer is not, 307; that is superior to work, 391.

-Ignorance: abolished, 56; sins from, 71; of intellect when held by wonder, 122; permitted because of presumption, 229; illusions of, 307; hide soul's treasures, 394.

-Illness: administered for health of soul, 46; do not wage war with body during, 103; vanquishes the slothful, 195; of soul, 243; on ministering to the sick, 377-80; not a cause of complete departure from the cell, 380.

-Incensive Aspect (Part) of soul: helps praxis, 13; belongs naturally to soul, 18; sets zeal astir, 273; helps endurance of tribulations, 257.

-Inebriation, spiritual. See Drunkenness.

-Infirmity. See Weakness.

-Ink, writings of: 13, 32; can falsify the truth, 36, 39, 58n, 392.

-Instruction: human, 37; twofold conferred by God, 41; by angels and demons, 138-40.

-Intellect: cviii-cix; nakedness of, 23n, 213, 216; and senses, 31; must acquire wing of divine vision, 59; radiance of the Father beheld in, 84; darkened by exhalation of stomach, 99; can move toward good uninstructed, but not toward evil, 138; glorified with Jesus, 161; kingship of is crucifixion of the body, 162; strays when eyes wander and belly is at ease, 200; the second activity brings all revelations to, 240; activity of in the third degree of knowledge, 261-3; strengthened by reading, 318; renewal of through night- vigil, 320; definition of, 323; when sound and unsound, 323; when caught away from shameful thoughts, sign of dispassion, 326; of dispassionate man, 347-8; hardens body against temptations, 357; occupation of during vigil, 367-71; is a man's spiritual nature, 391; tears produced when beholds spiritual things, 392.

-Intuitions (or Insights): of God, 32; of the understanding, 34; from death to world, 39; of Divinity and of the angels, 113-4; of wisdom, 163; who has illumined, 164; born of, 197; of God's majesty, 213; unseeing, concerning the Divine nature, 263; caused by repentance, 305.

-Isaac, the Patriarch, 57.

-Jacob, the Patriarch, 8, 43, 57.

-Jeremias, the Prophet, 27, 49.

-Jesus Christ: Divinity and humanity, 18; oeconomy of, 28; life and joy of the pure, 85; is the Bread whereby the ages of the new world are sustained, 88; theoria concerning the Incarnation, 113; angels receive revelations through, 139; door opened by Incarnation, 139; the Great Friday, 143; the Sabbath of, 143; intellect glorified with, 161; fasting of, 172; the heavenly Bread, 224; the Pearl, 232; died for sinners, 246; wept for Jerusalem, 250; knowledge of, 260; signs that the world and the flesh are more alive in a man than, 276-7; demands soul's amendment, 282; Mediator of our life, 301; sum of all is that God surrendered His own Son to death for love, 345-6; death of, 364; gives an example for vigil, 370-1; clothed Himself with humility in the Incarnation, 381; glory of, seen on Sinai, 381; has renewed the fragrance of Adam, 383.

-Jesus of Navi (Joshua), 43, 69, 120.

-Job, the Much-Suffering, 42, 195, 289.

-John the Baptist, Saint, 75, 120.

-John Chrysostom, Saint, 227.

-John, Abba, of Thebes (or John of Lykopolis), 111, 377.

-John the Theologian (or the Virgin), 76, 224.

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-Joseph, the Patriarch, 8, 27.

-Joy (see also Delight, Sweetness): from voluntary endurance of calumny, 49-50; that comes of faith is a monk's wealth, 54; and prayer, 68; with no apparent cause, 125; beware of unchanging, 153; over Christian hope, 166; corporeal, awakens lustful movements, 206; when suffering temptations, 209; increases with the love of God, 212; in stillness soul of solitary is filled with, 232; follows despondency, 233; sign of resurrection of the spiritual man, 235; drunkenness of, 236; man humbled because of, 245; love is the haven of, 245; in Christ causes dispassion in affliction, 276, 277, 278; two cannot abide in one man simultaneously, 294; in God stronger than this present life, 298; from hope is a lure for the soul, 311; in stillness, 320; stills the tongue, 333; two joys, 333; endurance of afflictions with, 360; during vigil, 367.

-Judgment to come: 160; alms a cause of mercy at, 42; recollection of, 297; preparation

for, 301; rumination upon, 305.

-Justice: rise above path of, 30; of God, 136, 230, 250-1; and mercy of God, 244; does not belong to the Christian way of life, 246; of God does not take vengeance, 314; of the Judge of all, 362.

-Kingdom to be (or of the Heavens, of God, the Future State, the World to come): delight of, 11; explanations of 'many mansions' in, 55-6; no sorrow in, 56; not three states, but two, 56-7; within a man if he is pure, 84, 85; state of, 160; is love, 224; perception of, 231; knowledge of, 312; delight of experienced, 333, 353; nature will not be susceptible to changes in, 341; God opens the gate of, 353; definition of, 353; disdained for the hope of comfort, 356; results of rumination upon, 388-9; the bond of, 390; of God is noetic theoria, 395.

-Kneeling. See Prostrations.

-Knowledge: spiritual comes after performing the virtues, 22; of Christ makes works sweet, 29; on full stomach no knowledge of divine mysteries, 33; place taken by faith, 65; state of knowing, 118; beware of without temptations, 153; first stage of spiritual, 160; of God precedes love and divine vision of Him, 161; of all things from self-knowledge, 162; purity is forgetting contranatural modes of, 177; unitary, 214; natural and spiritual, 226-8; ascent of, 230; monk progresses to successive, 231; on the three degrees of, 253-63; and faith, 253-63; gained by experience of evils, 295; when natural, a man recollects the Judgment, 297; offspring of health of soul, 298; is the perception of life immortal, 298; true, is humility with discernment, 306; true, is a fountain of humility, 306; natural, is noetic vision, 323; on human and spiritual, 352-4; of many things without practice, 392; experience is the eye of, 392.

-Labor. See Works.

-Law, Mosaic: as opposed to the Gospel, 30.

-Laxity (or Heedlessness, Relaxation, Slackness, Sloth): deprives a man of hope in God, 64; as a cause of sin, 72; what it deprives a man of, 99; from many affairs, 103; followed by dispersion and confusion of thoughts, 154; body must be estranged from the causes of, 168, 169; devil watches for a time of, 191; at beginning, 192; also harms those who see it, 236; on what is born of, 249; deprives soul of health, 299; causes of lethargy, 308; when enters the soul, 329-30.

-Lazarus, the poor man, 276.

-Leisure. See Ease.

-Liberty: is freedom in bad sense, 4; caused by reason, 4; produces aberration, 4; impeded by fear and shame, 6; causes instability of mind, 6; time when abolished, 146; of the intellect ceases, 161.

-Life: path of, 3, 39; beginning of true, 4; of the pure of soul is Christ, 85; of age to come, 179; discovery of other life needed to renounce this one, 235; joy in God is stronger than, 298; immortal, definition of, 298; description of, 301; seed of, from repentance, 305; true mortification is movement of, 306; fulfillment of, 316; immortal, experience of, 320-1; faith and humility a fountain of, 351.

-Light: spiritual, 12; of grace, of gladness, 81; of the Trinity in the soul, 85, 121; of the Holy Spirit, 86; of motion is spiritual sight, 130; creation of refers to angelic orders, 132; of the soul, 137; sensible and spiritual, 323.

-limpid purity: difficult to regain, 22; definition of, 22n; of mercy, 55n; faith and mercy bring, 60; preceded by peace of thoughts, 96; man sees mysteries of God through, 96;

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-Liturgy (or Divine Service, Services, Office): 12 and n, 38, 114, 183, 272; communal church services, 125; sweetness during, 134; if divine vision not yet acquired, 156; steals distraction from the mind, 156n; guards heart, 156n; gluttony causes abandonment of, 199; overcome by darkness of soul, 241; delight in, 268; tears during, 307; performed by others, 317; of the invisible hosts, 321; when silence cuts short the verses during, 328-9; how to begin, 365; instructions for, 366-75.

-Love: of the flesh, 5; characteristics of, 158-9; cannot tarry in any mystery without beloved, 297; of self precedes all the passions, 361; of the world uprooted by temptations, 361.

-Love of God: incites a man to virtue, 22; preceded by the fear of God, 22; more initiated than labor for God, 37; implanted by deliverance from afflictions, 48; should be mixed with fear, 135; torments sinners, 141; bridles aberration in angels, 146; captivity of, 154, 183; caused by divine vision, 157; intellect ascends to, 157; workings of, 158-9, 245; preceded by knowledge of God, 161; is the perfection of all the fruits of the Spirit, 183; ignites tears, 183; shown by works, 203; increases with consolation, 212; realized in stillness, 220; is Paradise, 223; is the tree of life, 224; is God, 224; he who eats, eats Christ, 224; wine that 'maketh glad the heart of man', 224; the divine port, 224-5; humility born of, 244-5; not only because of His rewards, 251; unfailing, 268; toil and tribulation as a sacrifice of, 271; man possessing love for the world cannot attain to, 288; lovers of God live amid afflictions, 293; shown by suffering afflictions, 295; a cause of boldness in prayer, 295; swallows up fear, 297; state of sonship, 297; offspring of knowledge, 298; comes from prayer, 303; a lover of God loves a quiet life, 307; spiritual knowledge is the blossom of, 325; is the fruit of prayer, 325; found in the soul's self- renunciation, 325; proof of given in warfare, 337; grows by spiritual beholding of God, 339; of God for us and the crucifixion, 345-6; causes oblivion to afflictions and insensibility of passions, 363; operation of is simple and uncompounded, 378; the all- embracing portion, 379.

-Love of neighbor: 52; conceals God within, 23; that disturbs stillness, 109-10; activity two-fold, 145-6; before completion of repentance, 153; hesychasts do not concern themselves to maintain, 218; included in the love of God, 220; inspired by separation from men, 220; key to divine gifts, 234; description of the works of, 247; impossible with love of affluence, 306; show to all men, but keep distant, 314; sign of perfection, 345; is likeness to God, 346; examples of, 346; cannot love the world and love, 346; with this a man is clad with God, 346; cannot abide with pecuniary wealth, 361; the mind cannot be illumined by love of God without, 377; example of perfect, 378; observance is twofold, 378; that does not require sight, 389.

-Maccabees, 27.

-Madness, spiritual: of Paul, 39; of saints, 159.

-Makarios, Saint, the Great, 55n, 219, 292-3, 335-7, 339, 374, 377, 378.

-Mark, Saint, the Ascetic, 336, 337, 347, 355.

-Martinian, Abba, 73, 369.

-Martyrdom: to die for keeping the commandments, 23; in resisting sin, 150; of martyrs, 173, 184; suffering for the sake of good or evil men is, 246; in performing a beautiful work, 300; in trying to rescue sinners, 313.

-Meekness, 243, 250.

-Memory. See Recollection.

-Mercy: causes communion with God, 7; is likeness to God, 7, 8, 312, 376, 391; path to spiritual love, 8; deeds of require breadth of heart, 30; merciful man must rise above what is just, 30; definition of merciful man, 30-1, 54; shown by enduring injustice, by repaying evil with good, 55; that disturbs stillness, 109; feeds knowledge in the soul, 234; of God and justice of God, 244; of God not stemmed by vices of His creatures, 244; prayers of merciful men, 244; in tribulation God shows to soul great, 276; merciful man is his own physician, 312; merciful heart, definition, 344-5; follows humility like a shadow follows a body, 354; compassion on the afflicted, 363; brings near to God, 376; must be shown inwardly and outwardly, 376-80; sign of limpid purity, 392.

-Messalians, 5, 119 and n, 143, 336.

-Mind: cviii-cx; strengthened and illumined by reading, 33, 36; prayer purifies, 35; occupied with affairs, cannot approach divine things, 36; which leaves the remembrance of God, 85; fettered by the pursuit of wisdom, 163; held in bondage by vision of the new age, 181; the

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discipline of, 213-4; when freed of worldly concerns, becomes limpid, 302; concentration of, 307; when plunged inside a man, 329; God wishes the alteration of, 338; mind dies to passions, 339; cannot be illumined without love of neighbor, 377.

-Miracles (or Wonders, Signs): wrought by many who later fell, 32; prayer for is temptation of devil, 291, 292; the righteous shun, 292; narrations concerning, 292-3; working of, inferior to soul's progress, 334.

-Moderation: adorns all things, 7; eat with, 106; and righteous activity, 154.

-Monk (or Solitary): definition of, 54; ought to be an exemplar of profit, 77; virtues of, 77-8; must stand before the face of God, 98; not required to give alms, 109-11; should have no care, 111; life in the cell, 125-8; meditation of, 177-82; sight of worldly persons harmful to, 221; fixes his eye upon death, 231; watches prayer for guidance, 231; sails from knowledge to knowledge, 231; harmed by conversations, 232; guards his faith, 232; soul of filled with joy in stillness, 232; life of, and advice for, 318-22; does not perceive human affairs, 361; who separates himself from his companions, 363.

-Moses, the Prophet, 7, 18, 126, 259, 381.

-Moses, Abba, the Ethiopian, 97n.

-Motion(s): of prayer, 116-22; things spiritual transcend, 118-9; of noetic beings, 129-30; devil arouses, 194; mind's luminous, 197; of the lower members of the body, 204-5; of nature, 204-5; permitted because of conceit, 205; of divine revelations, 216.

-Mourning (or Weeping): 248, 268; definition of a mourner, 54; separates from the world, mortifies passions, 90; over mortality, 166; occupation in cell, 177-9; entrance into purity from, 178; accompanies natural knowledge, 227; virtue mother of, 282; gives birth to humility, 282; follow Christ by, 317; over this world, 389; man who possesses is invincible to the passions, 396; superior to joy, 396; weapon of, 396.

-Mouth: restrain from speech, 84; a silent interprets mysteries, 84.

-Murmuring: God chastises a man given to, 229; sign of lack of knowledge, 229.

-Mysteries, divine: no knowledge of on full stomach, 33; do not act shamelessly with regard to, 35; of future blessedness, 40; intellect beholds, 83; seen by heart that is free of anger, 85; within men, 87; revelations of given to angels, and angels give to men, 140; of the Lord's day, of the Sabbath, 142-4; of Christ, 160; of future state is spiritual prayer,

182; faith is the door to, 223; the third degree of knowledge searches out, 261; perception of, is knowledge of the truth, 297; of stillness, 319; stillness a harbor of, 319; saints set themselves apart so as to enter into, 321; power to bear, given to the humble, 384; humility is the fullness of all, 384; of the Spirit revealed only through purity, 394.

-Mysteries, Holy. See Eucharest.

-Narrations, 86, 89, 105-11, 184, 271, 272, 278-9, 392-3.

-Nature: what is natural is prior, 19; nature does not suppress its properties, 20; receptive to accidents, 46; war against, 103; human, subject to changes, 70, 104, 338; and aberration, 135; what is alien to requires a mediator, 138; folly of, 154; change of, 154; dominated by love, 154; has not the power to subdue a man's good volition, 204-5; power of for discernment of good, 227; knowledge keeps within the boundaries of, faith journeys above, 254; histories of philosophers show power laid up in human, 278; impotence of human, 296; definition of natures, 323.

-Night: standing during, 308; give more honor to prayer during, 308; delight of the day comes from activity during, 308; vigil during, 365-75; most revelations come during, 371.

-Night vigil: 308, 365-375, 371, 372.

-Nilos, Abba, of Sinai, 30n, 337.

-Noe (Noah), 49, 74.

-Occupations. See Affairs.

-Oeconomy, divine: 44, 180, 268, 312; different from the natural order, 7, 112; angels and demons teach men in accord with, 138; provides for visions and revelations, 175-6.

-Old Man, New Man, the: meaning of, 395.

-Ophni, 75.

-Opposite Gender. See Gender, Opposite.

-Osee (Hosea), the Prophet, 18.

-Pachomios, Saint, 374.

-Passions: abate in desert, 4; definition of, 14, 15; addition to nature, 17; in general, 17-9, 23n; easy to subdue in the beginning, 43; elude by recollection of virtues, 58; and three stages of spiritual life, 79; darkness of, 81; uprooted by study of God, 85; passionate man speaks of

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divine things passionately, 87; spring up in body like thorns, 143, 144; on origins and causes of, 151-2; like dogs, 154, 329; spiritual yearning combats, 156n; conquered by palpable virtues, 157; a wall impeding hidden virtues of the soul, 157; strengthened by proximity to things, 169; stillness required to recognize, 173; awakened by wandering, 198; sweetness of killed by tribulations, 205; nourished by ease, 205; consumed by love of God, 239; definition of, 298, 323; when the heart is dead to, 298-9; divine vision steals away awareness of, 322; obstruct divine vision from discernment, 323; turbulence of through excessive food, 325-6; and habit, 329; discernment of, 331-3; do not die, 339; and dispassion, 347; hinder perception of the new world, 361; insensibility to from love of God, 363; die through mourning, 389; polluted garment of hides soul's treasures, 394; mourning makes a man invincible to, 396.

-Patience: 243; explanation of, 211; from humility, 212; the power of, 235; tested by

temptations, 290; produces health of soul, 298; precedes abandonment of the world, 303; preceded by hatred of the world, hatred of lust, 303, 304.

-Paul, the Apostle: 27, 39, 83, 90, 135, 160, 223, 259, 289, 317, 341-2; madness of, 39;

example of, 112; weeping of, 389.

-Paul, the Hermit, 369n, 373.

-Peace: born when senses are collected, 22; make with soul rather than between men, 32; of thoughts after tears, 83, 96; to have must vanquish enemies first, 157; beware of unchanging 208; from good order, 233; gives birth to light in soul and mind, 233; of mind is perfect health, 243; zeal opposed to, 243; and humility, 247; produced by hope, 248; of mind disturbed by a lewd sight, 361.

-Perception: the earnest of the Kingdom is in its, 11; of the Kingdom, is the noetic operation of the Spirit, 11; in spiritual prayer, 182; of mysteries is spiritual knowledge, 227, 297; belonging to spiritual knowledge, 227; of future age, 231, 361; of our Creator, 240; of God is humility, 306; of the spiritual world, 311-2; the intellect is, 323; of the truth 325.

-Perfection: 300; stillness is summit (path) of, 38; of humility, 55; falling short of, 69; stage of, 80, 260; none here due to aberration, 135; of nature in the age to come, 136; in manner of life, 182; of purity, 183; of the fruits of the Spirit, 183; purity of intellect is, 215; foundation of, 233; of the mysteries, 263; approached through, 310; yoked to flesh and blood, 326-7; definition of, 344; sign of the attainment of, 345; humility given to the perfect, 383; of the gift of wonder, 392.

-Peter, the Apostle; 27, 43, 76, 120, 259, 289; denial of, 314.

-Phantasy (fantasy): of, or instead of, the truth, 35, 138, 325, 395; devilish seed of, 79-80;

devil manifests, 194, 267; from gluttony, 199; produced by satiety, 326; of passions, 332.

-Philosophers (or Philosophy): 208, 382; say that passions are innate, 17; words concerning gluttony by, 199; narration concerning, 202; examples of patience, of strength of will, 278-80; strayed from the truth, 325.

-Phinees, 75.

-Pleasure: of body strengthens the passions, 200.

-Possessions: make a slave of the passions, 30; definition of possessiveness, 30; and almsgiving, 110; evil effects of the acquisition of, 360; monk who has must provide for the poor, 377; love of, from closeness to the world, 388.

-Poverty. See Freedom from possessions.

-Powers (order of angels), 131, 132.

-Praise. See Honor.

-Praxis (or Righteous Activity): and theoria, 7, 383; speech born of, 8; purifies the passionate part of soul, 13; and moderation, 154; definition of, 214; nature ceases from when divine vision impeded, 324; the consciousness of the intellect does not require, 378; take up when destitute of theoria, 379.

-Prayer: sloth in brings darkness, 12; make fitting requests in, 23, 24; causes why not quickly answered, 24; concerning temptations, 25-6; and chastity, purity, 31; and vigil illumine intellect, 35; and mercy, 35; and reading, 36; cut off by wonder, 36; God does not answer quickly because of our negligence, 46; for divine help causes humility, 68; definitions of, 68, 117; God slow to answer so as to teach man his need of Him, 69; scatters darkness of passions, 81; two kinds of, 97; must be conjoined with bodily toil, 107; sweetness of, 115-6; divine vision of, 115-6, 117; on pure and on 'spiritual', 116-22; when transcended, 116-22, 160; mediator between natural and spiritual state, 119; gifts are received during,

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120-1; changes character of occurrences, 123-4; of reconciliation, 124; and expectation, 128; not judged for neglect of, 151; canonical established by revelation, 151; fasting mother of, 171; and tears, 178, 363; embraces all the works of stillness, 182; unceasing by grace of the Comforter, 182; definition of spiritual, 182-3; of the heart, 214; directs monk in his life, 231; key to understanding of Scripture, 233; divine vision into verses of, 241; time of darkness when cannot draw nigh to, 241; of merciful man, 244; fruit of undistracted, 248; laxity shames, 249; notations of the verses of, 266; necessary to determine what is good, 286; God leaves men to labor in, 291; translucence in, 302; needs exercise, 303; preceded by seclusion, 303; necessary to acquire love for God, 303; definition of, 303, 345; kneeling during, 307; tears are the fullness of, 307; during the night more precious, 308, 372; love is the fruit of, 325; in mortification of the will, 325; for irrational beasts, enemies of the truth, 345; of a humble man, 350; become in your thought like an ant in, 351; Fathers chose silence and seclusion for the sake of, 371; we do not receive help without, 387; path of in temptations, 388; motions of spiritual, 394.

-Prayers, 91-2, 150, 161, 194, 215, 286-7, 298, 300, 309, 311, 365-6.

-Pride: loathsome to God, 42; God sends trials upon the proud to make them humble, 50; is in darkness without knowing it, 99-100; search out, 104; how resist the thought of, 183-5; causes God's providence to withdraw, 190, 309; devil tries to instill, 193; accompanies hardness of heart, 203; trials of, 210-1; from the first degree of knowledge, 259; approaches when a man is without afflictions, 283; precedes ruin, 283; God abandons a man because of, 283, 338; definition of, 283; recollect transgressions to combat, 338; visiting the sick releases a man from, 379-80; and humility, 383; demon of cast down by awestruck wonder, 391.

-Principalities (order of angels), 131, 132.

-Prostrations (or Kneeling): 303, 334, 371; at time of compunction, 38; before Cross, 38,

39, 105; cause of light, 39; cut short by joy, 39; during prayer, 62; thirty, 97; during reading, 105; the delightful bending of the knees, 114; draw God's mercies, 155; hindered by gluttony, 199; prefer to psalmody, 307; mind grows silent during, 307; most helpful in time of darkness, 387; devil wars against, 387-8; persist in even if thoughts are cold, 387.

-Providence of God: 4, 27, 34, 65, 268; writings on, 33; evident in trials, 43-5; the righteous rely entirely upon, 65; astonishment at, 180; thought of brings humility, 184-5; examples of, 184; manifested according to a man's volition, 190; in trials and afflictions, 209, 210; darkness is also from, 241; soul possessing faith relies on entirely, 253; the first degree of knowledge takes no account of, 258, 259; rely on during solitary life, 270-1; arouses fear for virtue, 274; draws nigh a man who despises the world, 276; griefs are sign that a man is under, 290; always present with the saints, 291; manifested only when profitable, 291; do not meddle in, 291 and n; trains the saints, 295-6; brings variations upon us, 338; hurls us into the realm of temptations, 341; protects those who draw nigh to God as children, 351-2; hidden power of, 352; grace reveals the workings of to a man, 354-5; revealed to a man by grace, 391.

-Psalmody: 62, 272, 303; difficult to hold intellect during, 134; not judged for, 151; divine vision into verses of, 241; how to receive delight during, 268, 269; root of the ascetic discipline, 308; more profitable than labor, 308; becomes insipid, 308; during vigil, 366-70; ponder upon before sleep, 393.

-Punishment. See Recompense, Chastisement.

-Purity: of thoughts, 5, 14; natural property of the soul, 19; of the mind, definition, 20; of

mind and of heart, 21; if quickly gained, quickly lost, 21; causes soul to glisten in prayer, 31; causes joy at memory of death, 31; Master of all seen in, 84; visual power of souls possessing, 130; definition of, 173, 177, 344; requires withdrawal from outer turmoils, 173-4; the sign of entrance into, 177; boundary of, 177; purification of the body, soul and intellect, 215-6; revelation comes from, 322; is translucence of the noetic air, 323; requisite for receiving spiritual knowledge, 353; near to when perceive God's care, 390; mysteries of the Spirit given only when there is, 394; grace reveals the soul's splendor through, 394; cannot be achieved outside of stillness, 395; natural that heavenly light shines into, 396.

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-Purpose. See Goal.

-Rapture (see also Captivity), the mystery of even now, 146-7.

-Reading: 226, 334; instructions for, 6; in stillness brings intellect to wonder, 31; read books of the teachers of the Church on providence, 33; of Gospels gives provisions for journey, 33; to be done in stillness, 34; assists prayer, 36; refines thoughts, 45; renews soul-profiting recollections, 58; during times of darkness, 81, 241; boons of, 102; of Scripture in second degree of knowledge, 260; when mind is scattered, 307; should be parallel to way of life, 307; not all books useful for purification, 307; honor above standing, 307; strengthens intellect, 318; sweetened by stillness, 320; ponder upon before sleep, 393.

-Reason: and free will, 4, 134, 146, 230; rational soul's ability to discern good and evil, 226; rational man fears the Judgment, 297.

-Recollection (or Memory): to drive away fleshly, 5; perpetual is spiritual unity, 8; use of, 10-11; of virtues, 58; Scripture renews soul-profiting, 58; of former actions must be cast out, 232; of virtuous and licentious men, 267; discernment of, 268; gives birth to tears, 269-70; of the Judgment, 297; of transgressions, 338; renewed by sense perceptions, 364; of sins is not humility, 383; of human affairs stolen away, 389; of things whereby men are led astray causes tears, 389.

-Recollection of death: 314, 315, 317; when beginning the works of God, 61; blessed is the man who has, 86; and examination of self, 91, 126, 156n, 165-6; accompanies natural knowledge, 227; power of, 238; fetter for outward members, 311.

-Recollection (or Remembrance, Memory) of God: caused by temptations, 47, 48; causes boldness in prayer, 48; causes wonder, 48, 54, 181; cleanses heart, 85; and love of God, 183; man who honors others because of, 229; causes memory of visible things to vanish, 231; is God's indwelling, 248.

-Recollection of world to be, of things spiritual: 34, 36, 179-81, 367, 388-9; collects mind, 156; helps a man to depart from world, 166, 389; through despising things here, 389.

-Recompense (or Repayment, Reward, Punishment): from God, 37; do good not expecting, 37, 230; arises from man's capacity to change, 47; a diversity of in the Kingdom and Gehenna, 56; for good and evil volition, 58; for faith, not works, 62; diverse for diverse sins, 71; and accidental occurrences, 123; endure patiently, 149, during this life or at its end, 153; of our deeds, 230; bestowed by God, 230, 251-2; for the practice of virtue, 235; not given for labor or virtue but for humility, 282; for evil is God's affair, 313.

-Reflection (or Rumination, Meditation): sows the fear of God in the heart, 3; while in

bed, 42; on the love of God screens the soul, 80; on God drives away demons, 84; sweetness of, 114; on future things, 156; on the Scriptures, 179; on God's majesty, providence, 179-80; on death and resurrection, 180-1; and stillness kindle sweetness and wonder, 182; fruits of, 197-8; perform works with, 246; on God, 248; on virtuous men, 267; upon an impotent thought, 300; upon hope of the heart, 311; definition of spiritual, 316; upon future things retains repentance, 316; during vigil, 368-70; effects of upon the world to come, 388-9; imageless meditation, 388; on God causes forgetfulness of the world, 390.

-Relaxation. See Laxity.

-Remembrance. See Recollection.

-Remembrance of wrongs: and prayer, 244, 246.

-Remission. See Forgiveness.

-Renunciation: of former habits, 167; meaning of 'to deny oneself', 167-8.

-Repayment. See Recompense.

-Repentance: 239; no forgiveness without, 10; of no avail after the removal of free will, 12; hope furnished by must not be used as an aid to sinning, 74-6; no limit to, 153; path of, 206; grace after grace, second regeneration, 223; door of mercy, 223; born of faith and fear, 223, 227; brings to love, 224-5; is the working of the fear of God, 227; gives birth to spiritual knowledge, 227; labors of, bitter before receive divine vision, 232; and conversations, 244; boldly rely upon, 248; tears sign of acceptance, 269; mother of life, 305; renews grace lost after baptism, 305; when far from all things, 305; humility the beginning of, 306; retained in soul by reflection upon future things, 316; transports a man to the world to come, 316; is perpetual sorrow of heart, 316; if love, love stillness, 316; heals the soul, 335; definition of, 340, 344; this life is given for, 364.

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-Repose. See Ease.

-Rest, bodily. See Ease.

-Rest: after tears, 83; in it a man begins to behold mysteries, 83; and hardships, 152-3; as an earnest, 153; from passions before reaching humility, 159; of God, 248; do not yield to laxity during, 249; faith is perfect, 257; from labor is the third degree of knowledge, 262; the time of is in the age to come, 293.

-Resurrection: 316, 360; awakens the dead, 166; faith in, 166; of the soul, 175, 198;

living as though after, 179; of mankind, 180; angels await, 180; state after, 214, 367, 372; air of, 224; of spiritual man, 235; doubt in, 242; grace of, 251-2; noetic in the third degree of knowledge, 261; expectation of, 305, 316; conviction in is the budding of the heart, 311; entrusting one's life to the life after, 364.

-Revelation: spirit of, 14; saints receptacles of, 76; definition of divine, 113; concerning God's nature, 113; concerning the angels, 113; given to angels and by angels to men, 140; the causes of and nature of, 175-7; how differs from vision, 176; of mysteries purify the intellect, 215; all received through the second activity, 240; two orders of, 322; most come at night during prayer, 371.

-Reward. See Recompense.

-Righteous activity. See Praxis.

-Rule: of prayer, 62; of asceticism for beginners, 93-5; of life like spiritual chain, 106; divine oeconomy opposed to general, 112; of stillness, 125; wandering causes abandonment of, 198; of fasting, 272; stillness not for fulfilling monastic ordinances, 316; illness suffices instead of, 317.

-Rumination. See Reflection.

-Sabbath, divine vision of, 142-4.

-Saints (or the Righteous): delight enjoyed by, 11; have their histories as living icons for emulation, 27; histories of, desirable to the meek, 28; read lives of, 36; martyrs, examples of courage and divine providence, 44; temptations that befall them to bring humility, 69; in age to come do not pray with prayer, but stand in wonder, 119; inebriated with love, 159; their love of God proven by temptations, 194; path of, 208, 266; receive hypostatic theoria, 214; the second activity brings all revelations to, 240; accounted worthy of perfect knowledge, 259; vision of during the night, 267; martyrs, examples of patience in afflictions, 277; through tribulation a man becomes a partaker of the suffering of, 289; a man who asks for signs is not one of, 292; consider themselves unworthy of God, 293; expel the world from themselves by hardships, 293; trained by trials, 295-6; resemble God by their love for all men, 346; martyrs, strengthened by zeal and eagerness, 357; recollection of the lives of the Fathers, 368-70; chose silence and seclusion for the sake of prayer, 371.

-Samson, 75.

-Satan. See Devil.

-Satiety: finding none in chanting, 116; effects of, 325-6.

-Scripture (or Divine Writings): declares that the good things to come are incomprehensible, 11; teaches how to receive a perception of the delight of the good things to come, 11; God preaches fear in, 74; threats of God in must not be disregarded, 76; indications of spiritual perfection in, 79; faith in the resurrection revealed in, 166; prayer is the key to the understanding of, 233; ponder upon before sleep, 393.

-Scripture, study of: helps in achieving freedom from possessions, 3; drives away lust and memories, 5, 12; brings the soul to ecstasy, 5; gives power to master thoughts, 6; makes plain the pathways of divine vision, 36; fills soul with wonder and gladness, 81; causes one to be unvexed by the passions, 179; a light to the soul, 266.

-Seclusion: precedes prayer, 303; preceded by abandonment of the world, 303.

-Secrets: 94.

-Secundus the Philosopher, 278-9.

-Self-confidence: causes zeal to cool, 274-5.

-Self-constraint: and humility, 349.

-Self-reproach: indication that a man walks on the path of God, 124; discriminating disdain of soul, 250.

-Senses: trouble the heart, 4; thoughts bound to, 5; give birth to desire, 5; do not mediate for the delight of the saints in the Kingdom, 11; when collected, give birth to peace, 22; and intellect, 31, 32; and warfare, 38; become superfluous, 118; heart mediator between those of body and soul, 158; warfare through objects of, 193-4; anger stirred by the desire of the things of, 205; and freedom from possessions, 207-8; spiritual discipline is activity

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apart from, 214; inner mortification requires inactivity of, 234; downfall of is life in God, 235; resurrection of deadens the heart, 235; do not relinquish the freedom of, 249; second degree of knowledge works virtue with help of, 260; impressions of cause thoughts, 306; good ordering of, causes good ordering of thoughts, 311; become inactive from sweetness, 320; stillness brings into submission to the soul, 321; zeal strengthens, 357; renew recollections, 364.

-Seraphim (order of angels), 131, 132, 245.

-Serapion, Abba, 369. Sheol. See Hades.

-Shortcomings (or Failings): are the custodians of righteousness, 282; cause humility, 282.

-Silence: of the bodily members as a sign, 34; give thanks with before divine mysteries, 35, 62, 203, 253; of limpidly pure men is prayer, 182; spiritual wisdom causes to reign, 234; the power of silent deeds, 236; caused by waves of grace, 252; is gazing at God, 306; unites with God, 307; love above all things, 310; on what is born of, 310; of tongue in prayer, 320; mystery of the age to come, 321; suddenly comes upon the soul, 328; unceasing, brings humility, 345; chosen for the sake of prayer, 371; caused by power of grace, 391; of bones offers glorification, 391.

-Simplicity: 186, 192; requires prudence, 24; in journeying the path of virtue and meeting afflictions, 61; primordial, is purity, 177; of stillness, 329; walk before God with, 351; attended by faith, 351; of purity, 353; of mind, 353; take refuge in, 354; of the worshipful Cause, 378.

-Sin: causes of, 41; fear of, 42; easily eradicated in the beginning, 43; love sinners but hate their works, 51; on different classes of, 71-2; does not exist with God, 133; fruit of free will, 133; remission of, 141; power of, 150; hatred of, 150, 152; struggle against initiated by vigil and fasting, 171; commandments strip of inward and outward, 183; of all flesh compared to mind of God, 244; God does not eschew a man for one sort of, 283; continuance in is grievous, 283; go before men to judgment, 314; and expectation of repentance, 314; recollect to combat proud thoughts, 338.

-Sinner: do not hate, 51, 250; do not buffet or exalt oneself over, 281-2; should not despair, 282; pray for, 314; Christ came for, 314.

-Sisoes, Abba, 177.

-Slackness. See Laxity.

-Sleep: rule for, 93; why monks withstand, 102; with expectation, 128; of death, 166; fasting repels, 171; prayer during, 182; love causes converse with God during, 183; born of gluttony, 199; what to say before, 314-5; driven away by remembrance of the Fathers, 370; divine vision during, 392-3; preparation for, and visitations during, 393; protection of grace during, 393.

-Sloth. See Laxity.

-Small things: open the door to great ones, 31, 126; must subdue first, 154; painstaking in, 155; patience and experience in, 200-2.

-Sobriety. See Watchfulness.

-Solomon, 23, 35, 160.

-Sorrow (or Grief): works remove, 7; over sin, 72, 141; prayer filled with, 123; over transitory life, 166; of heart takes the place of physical works, 243, 248; precious gift to God, 244; for another man is martyrdom, 246; virtues interwoven with, 283; from repentance, 305, 306; bridles senses, 307; of mind superior to bodily toil, 308; brings humility, 338.

-Soul: created after body, 14, 29, 234; natural thoughts of, 16; by nature passionless, 17; nature of, 17; suffers together with body, 17; definition of natural, supernatural, contranatural state of, 18; harmed by following after body, 19; will of body and soul different, 20; grasps at things that surpass her, 35; sign of emergence from darkness, 59; relation to angels and demons, 129-31; power of noetic vision, 130-1; senses of, 158; signs of the fruit of, 174; what is the resurrection of, 175; purification of, 215; two eyes

of, 223; work of better than work of the body, 234; stillness brings senses into submission to, 321; hypostatically united with the senses, 321; heavenly beauties concealed in, 394-5.

-Speech (see also Conversation): that comes from praxis, 8; when speak ill of someone, reckon yourself dead to God, 246; of sagacious man, 246.

-Spirit, Holy (or the Comforter): operation of, 11; commandments of replace the law of the Scriptures, 58; teaches secretly, 58; like air for the pure, 85; light of, 86; moves in man during prayer, 121; energy of is spiritual prayer, 182; forces the body to die to sin, 187; finds repose in His own fruits, 187; ripens the fruits

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of the soul, 232; virtues perfected by, 260; power of, 263; dwelling-place of, 293; reception of the power of by the humble, 384; mysteries of, 394.

-Spirit, human: discipline of, 213, 214; pristine vision of, 213.

-Spiritual: prayer, 118, 182-3, 393; things free of movement, and appellations of are inexact, 118; yearning, 157-8; discipline, 213, 214; things have likenesses in our nature,

300; things conceived of grossly, 302; visions, 394.

-Stage(s): three of spiritual life, 79-80; of perfection is the land of promise, 80; three indicated by Ezekiel, 96.

-Standing: during prayer, 102; honor reading above, 307; when no longer possible, 366; because of the warfare of fornication, 367.

-Stillness: 239; the idleness of, 32, 317, 375, 380; above almsgiving, 37-8; and tears, 83; manifold labors of, 97; and vigil, 101-4; and mercy, 109-11; requires complete abandonment of all things, 110, 112; definition of, 112; required for dispassion, 173; beginning of soul's purification, 173; reveals soul's inner wisdom, 174; power of the work of, 175; all the works of embraced by prayer, 182; three reasons why a man perseveres in, 203; lives of Fathers a guide toward, 218-20; a teaching from Heaven, 219; solitary's delight preserved in, 232; gives birth to divine vision into the verses of psalmody, 241; preceded by nonpossessiveness, 304; love more than labors, 307; repentance cannot be brought to completion outside of, 316; mother of repentance, 316; love of is expectation of death, 316; not for doing (monastic) works, 316; mysteries, stages and life of, 318-22; indications for the path of a man's, 328-30; power of overshadows soul, 333; a humble man desires, 348; for the sake of prayer, 371, 375; accidents occur if depart from, 375; and mercy, 376-80; for the sake of constant rumination upon God, 376; for a week or for seven weeks, 377, 379; sham when devoid of mercy, 377; power of wonder is a gift of, 392; few who embrace perfect, 392; dispassion and purity cannot be achieved outside of, 395.

-Stomach (or Belly): 245; no knowledge of divine mysteries when full, 33; vapors of banish wisdom, 54; exhalation of darkens the intellect, 99; mistress of every evil, 275; weighing down causes confusion, 308; when starved, 325, 326; when filled to satiety, 325-6.

-Strength: place no confidence in, 43; given by angels to ascetics, 44; who is strong, 164; God gives secretly, 291.

-Sweetness (see also Delight, Joy): of the works of righteousness, 29; of the power of theoria, 36; fountain of during prayer, 39; of sin, of the Divine Spirit, 39; and weeping, 83, 99; bitterness of hardship transformed into, 88; of prayer, 115; in verses of liturgy, 134; which pervades the heart, 158, 393; of sleep, 171; of Scripture, 179; of passions, 205; soul runs after heavenly, 232; of separation from this life, 232; that comes from divine vision and translates the heart, 232, 322; of spiritual knowledge, of God, 239, 298;

silences the tongue, 320; of grace, 324; draws the whole man, 333.

-Symeon, Saint, of Emesa, 55n.

-Talkativeness: garrulous man distant from his Creator, 85; bemuddles the intellect, 86; is fornication, 87; produces darkness, 233; loquacious man is inwardly empty, 307.

-Tears: speak with, 33; sign that one has received the divine vision of things as they are, 34; cease when mind exalted above created things, 34; and compunction, prostrations, 39; shed in prayer by good heart, 49; sign of emergence from darkness, 59; cessation of, 59, 60; as sign of spiritual rebirth, 82; different orders of tears, 83; unceasing, 96; of hesychast, 104; sudden, 125; boundary between what is bodily and what is spiritual, 174; lead to perfection in the love of God, 174; lack of, sign that a man is buried in the passions, 174; difference of, 174-5; sweetness of is comfort of mourners, 176; entrance to the land of consolation, 179; ignited by the love of God, 183; shed for sinners, 250; sign that repentance is accepted, 269; born when world rejected, 269; born of undistracted rumination, 269-70; the fullness of prayer, 307; in stillness, 329; from the envelopment of grace, 331; when accompany prayer, 363; a few is not the gift of humility, 384; over things whereby men are led astray, 389; caused by power of grace, 391; produced when intellect beholds spiritual things, 392; from divine vision, narration concerning, 392-3.

-Temptations (or Trials): produce knowledge of the truth, 4; do not make trial of mind with

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lewd reflections, 12; of body and of soul, 24, 25, 26; fleeting is to flee virtue; 25; definition of, 25; meaning of 'pray that ye enter not into temptation', 25-6; when man begins a good work, 42; be prepared for, 42; necessary to gain the wisdom of the Spirit, 45; the confidence of faith needed to withstand, 45; upon the lazy and heedless, 46; many cause remembrance of God, 47; permitted so that a man draw nigh to God, 69; necessarily profitable, 70, 342; a reminder to help in bearing, 148-9; brought against beginners by the devil, 189-90; give proof of a man's love for God, 194-5; as a man draws nigh to the city of God, strength and number of increases, 208; in proportion to grace, 208; great gifts together with great, 209; come after reception of grace, 209; of the humble and of the proud, 209-11; advance toward humility by means of, 283; God benefits a man by, 289; is a gift from Christ to suffer, 289; preserve from demons, 290; God trains the saints by, 295-6; boons gained by, 296; power to endure with patience given by God, 296; make a man wise concerning the variations of life, 336; grace introduces a man to, 355; benefits of, 355; intellect hardens body against, 357; uproot love of the world, 361.

-Thanksgiving: a cause for greater gifts, 10, 229; prayer of, 68; for all things, 70; for second creation at the resurrection, 181; receives a blessing and grace from God, 229; for abundant grace of God, 272.

-Theodore, Abba, 218.

-Theodore, Martyr, 184.

-Theophilos, Archbishop of Alexandria, 218.

-theoria (see also Praxis); 13, 136, 183.

-Thoughts: bound to senses, 5; reflection on the Scriptures pinions, 6; four causes of their movements, 20, 21n; turbulence of from gluttony, 53; warfare of, 58; from demons must have material appearance, 128; employment of, 134; and bodily enticements, 155; from gluttony, 199; bridled by afflictions and labors, 206; darkening of, 210; good are divine

gifts, evil are a trial, 229; do not contradict, 269; prayer abolishes proud, 287, murky, 302-3; silence of, 306; caused by impressions of the senses, 306; concentration of by reading, 307; discernment of good and evil, 309; stillness cuts off causes of, 320; difference of reflections indicates inner state, 320; when rend the soul during stillness, 329; many activities collect a swarm of, 349; grace uncovers the ambush of, 354.

-Thoughts, the soul's natural: seen when senses are confined by stillness, 16; cannot be set in motion by demons, only by angels, 138.

-Thrones (order of angels), 131.

-Timothy, the Hermit, 369n.

-Toil. See Works.

-Tomb. See Grave.

-Tongue: and meekness, 43; guarding of, 236, 272; silenced by sweetness, 320; stilled by joy, 333; plays spiritual lyre, 367.

-Transgression. See Sin.

-Tribulations. See Afflictions.

-Trust. See Confidence.

-Truth: phantasms seen instead of, 35; revelation of, 135; theoria of, 136; keenness reveals a phantom of, 138; knowledge of by perception of mysteries, 297; if you love, love silence, 307; illuminations of, 324; perception of, 325; definition of, 325.

-Unknowing: 160; transcendent, 122, 264.

-Ununiformity and Uniformity: 135-6; labor exists amidst ununiformity, 146; fear things seeming to possess uniformity, 153.

-Vainglory: servant of fornication, 31; flee and be glorified, 51; introduces warfare of fornication, 58; deception by, 124; destroys a solitary, 233; soul crushed by, 275.

-Vengeance: he who seeks is devoid of love, 230; none found in acts of God, 230; not for us to decree, 313; God's justice does not take, 314.

-Vigil: brings consolation, 31; and prayer illumine intellect, 35, 54, 247, 334; on the work

of, 101-4, 365-75; and fasting, 171; kept by martyrs, 172; narration concerning, 272; a work filled with delight, 320-1.

-Vigilance. See Watchfulness.

-Virginity: definition of a virgin, 54.

-Virtue: how to lay a foundation of, 3; definition of, 4, 203; elementary must precede the more perfect, 22, 157; refute disputers with, 32; palpable conquer passions, 157; of the soul, 157; fasting and vigil are the foundation of, 171; follow one another in succession, 207; difference when practiced inwardly and outwardly, 235; first degree of knowledge opposed to 260; working of in the second degree of knowledge, 260; renewed by the recollection of virtuous men, 267; zeal necessary for working,

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273; is fulfilling of the law of God, 274; mother of mourning, 282; recompense given for humility, not for virtue, 282; sorrows interwoven with, 283; work of inner, 334; practice all at once, 347; short-cuts among, 347; hardships assail, 355; is a cross, 355.

-Virtues (order of angels), 131, 132.

-Visions: how differ from revelations, 176; many kinds, 176-7.

-Volition (or Will): 290; recompense according to good or evil, 59; God works with a man in proportion to, 190; nature cannot subdue, 204; can be strengthened by a divine

gift to despise afflictions, 278; can choose what is good, but not realize it, 286.

-Wakefulness. See Watchfulness.

-Wandering of body: from despondency, 154; fruits of staying in one place and of, 197-8; and chastity, 307.

-Wandering of mind. See Distraction.

-Warfare: exterior and interior, 38, 169; before, seek your ally, 49; man must never cease waging war, 72; do not grow faint-hearted in, 73; patience in, 103; in cell, 126; against sin, 150; flee causes of, 169-71; men defeated in when they rely on their own strength, 184-5; the devil's four methods of, 189-96; devil defeats us first in small matters, 201; teaches humility, 205; variations of grace and, 336; of this life, 342; and the proximity of things, 358; of devil against vigil, 371-3.

-Watchfulness (or Sobriety, Vigilance, Wakefulness): cause of purity, 14; combine with work, 202; under the pretext of love, soul casts off, 245; help of, 245; helps more than works, 249; of discernment, 250; and humility make virtue steadfast, 282; and diligence preserve health of soul, 299; is sleepiness to things visible, 312; signs for the vigilant, 328-30; and stillness, 391, 392.

-Weakness (or Infirmity): bring one's own to mind, 42; fall to learn, 43; of Adam, 51; blessed is the man who knows his own, 67; teaches that man needs help of God, 67; devil adds to nature's, 200; we must be conscious of, 200; knowledge of is perfect humility, 229; of human nature used as an excuse, 278.

-Weeping. See Mourning.

-Will. See Volition.

-Wisdom (human): those who are overly wise, 61; abandoning for divine, 352.

-Wisdom (spiritual): of God, understood when separated from worldly affairs, 16; fall away from, when consider oneself wise, 86; mind fettered by pursuit of, 163; is infinite because is God, 163; path to, 163; of soul revealed through stillness, 174; dawning of, 175; difference between spiritual and worldly, 234; beginning of is clemency and gentleness, 243; sign of reception of, 298; is gazing at God, 306.

-Women. See Gender, Opposite.

-Wonder (or Awestruck Wonder, Awe, Astonishment): reading Scriptures produces, 6; at God's works, 16; from understanding of spiritual things, 36; from divine vision, 36, 214; from memory of God, 48; at God's graces, 68; from writings of the saints, 81; from stillness, vigil, 104; from divine vision of prayer, 116; motionless state that transcends prayer, 116-22, 390; possessed by saints in age to come, 119; comes to pass during prayer and is therefore called prayer, 119; at the majesty and works of God, 179-81; is unitary knowledge, 214; in life of age to come, no thought of created beings, 214; soul raised above knowledge by, 253; is the spiritual discipline, 262; soul made drunk by, 263; narration concerning, 272; at God's glorious creations, 322; caused by power of grace, 391; love of God and humility received through, 391; gift of first tasted through stillness, 391; few who know the perfection of the gift of, 391-2; narration concerning, 392-3.

-Works (or Labor, Toil, Husbandry): those of body precede those of soul, 29; of the soul, no spiritual gifts without, 29; sweet with the knowledge of Christ, 29; in stillness translated to work of prayer, 38; of the body without purity of mind, 53-4; with wisdom, 54; of body must accompany virtue, 60; ascetical, 62, 97; precede hope, 64; of vigil, 101- 4; each has its own time, 107; prayer must be accompanied by bodily, 107; of laymen not for monks, 110; of monk, 125; with sweat, 134; necessity of, 144; because of ununiformity and compositeness, 146; ascetical, the mother of sanctification, 160;

accomplished without toil, 161; must be accompanied by stillness to give dispassion, 173; saints freely choose, 196;

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do not shrink from dying for, 202; profitless without wisdom of heart, 203; filter out the impurity of the flesh, 213; conjoined with fear of God give birth to spiritual knowledge, 227; necessary to draw near to God, 233; of the heart, 250; of righteousness that utilize knowledge, 251; God wishes only when we offer them as a sacrifice of love, 271; strength given for by guarding of the tongue, 272; recompense given for humility, not for works, 282; protected by humility, 282; turn toward the hope of future things, not bodily benefits, 288; stillness is not for the doing of, 316; of stillness, 319-22; in vain without humility, 338; set labors and grief as goal, 356; cannot receive the Kingdom without, 357.

-World: 298; separation from brings near to God, 4; definition of, 14-5; two worlds created by God, 47, 180-1, 252; man who is enchained by, 86; framing of, 132; is a harlot, 164-5; doubt concerning, 165; is a mere passageway, 165; physical separation from, 169; with closeness to, tears decrease, 174; creation and dissolution of, 180-1; sign of, rising up in a man, 235; is passions, 235; sign that it is more alive in a man than Christ, 276-7; is not the place of righteous, 278; love for prevents love for God, 288; abandonment, hatred of, 303; the profiting of, 317; whisperings of, 320; harmful encounters of are sharp stakes for the soul, 358; scorning of, 360; and love of material things, 388.

-World, dying to: 14, 15, 164, 250; through mourning, 90; through humility, 244; definition of, 300; in heart through stillness, 317; necessary for the quickening of the spiritual Adam, 364; definition of, 364; through mourning, 389.

-World to be. See Kingdom.

-Wrath (or Wrathful, Wroth, Wrothful). See Anger.

-Writings of saints (see also Reading): must be read with care, 6; divine grace helps in reading, 6; read insatiably, 33; encouragement given for repentance not to be misused, 74-6; read in times of darkness, 81.

-Wrongs, to suffer: with joy, 43; purifies the heart, 49; springs from disdain of the world, 49-50; shows mercy, humility, 55.

-Wroth (or Wrothful, Wrath, Wrathful). See Anger.

-Yearning, spiritual: causes separation from the world, 157; requisites for, 157; explanation of, 158.

-Zacharias, Saint, 120.

-Zeal, concerning other men: is sickness of soul, 243; not a form of wisdom, 243.

-Zeal, for virtue: remembrance of former awakens soul, 10; devil withdraws from the zealous, 191; how to preserve fervor of, 192; born of, 197, 198; reason for stillness, 203; instill into others by own example, 236; essential force for the doing of good, 273-5; how awakened and put to sleep, 273-4; stir up during lethargy, 308; strengthens the senses, 357; begets courage and fortitude, 357; and eagerness, 357, and martyrs, 357.

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INDEX OF SCRIPTURAL PASSAGES.

*Indicates an indirect reference.

All references are given according to the Septuagint numbering.

The Peshitta is the standard version of the Holy Bible for churches in the Syriac tradition.

Book - Chapter:Verse

GenesisPage

1:3132*

2:2142

2:729*, 234*

2:13165*

2:19383*

3:3404*

3:5455

3:6424*

3:1464*

3:18, 19143, 224*

3:20143

5:24470*

6:2 ff74*

6:5470*

14:14-16396

18:20 ff75*

18:27456

28:18353*

29:20 ff404*

37:35396

39:1 ff27*

48:228

Exodus 19:15, 16

381*

20:19381

21:24, 25411

24:2409*

24:9 ff121*

29:42120*

32:2718*

32:32345

34:2-3409*

Leviticus 6:2

151*

16:2120*

19:19345*

Numbers 7:89

120*

13:33

61

20:6

25:9

Deuteronomy120*

75*

5:25 ff381*

11:25190*

22:9, 10345*

34:1401*

Joshua 7:6 ff

120*

24:15297

Judges 2:23 ff

69

16:4 ff75*

1 Kings

3:1

120*

3:1375*

2 Kings

7:1

332

12:1375

3 Kings

3:9 ff

23*

8:11160*

8:12350*

8:54350*

10:1150*

18:4018*

19:2 ff476*

19:12382*

22:38470*

4 Kings

2:9

23*

2:11470*

6:13-2355*

13:21473*

2 Chronicles

32:30

165*

Job 1:9 ff

195*

3:10, 11166*

23:13

42:5

Psalms254*

227*

1:573

6:6372

10:24*

16:3452

17:2859

17:38374

21:6456

24:8251*

24:14274

29:2453

33:10390

33:1559*, 274

34:10391

35:9324

41:299

48:12226

48 (49):14 Peshitta315

50:1768

50 (51):17 Peshitta453

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Psalms 54:22

45, 148, 390

59:1367*

68:466

71:6382

77:30, 3123

83:5408*

83:6215

83:11167*

84:9189*

89:462*

89:10167*

90:5271

90:10274

90:13254

90:15-1666

103:3132*

103:15224

103:23410*

104:3, 448

107:1367*

114:6351, 352

118:62372

118:1053

125:529

126:1, 2255*

144:17251*

144:1845*

Proverbs 3:25

45*

3:34384*

4:27452

6:2712*

15:13175

18:12283*

22:1361

25:1635*

25:2735

25:2835*

28:165

28:1349

30:465*

Ecclesiastes 10:16

162

11:137*

11:461*

Wisdom 7:7 ff

23*

Ecclesiasticus 1:1

145*

1:28167

3:1935, 80, 384

14:3324

34:15255*

Hosea 1:2

18*

Micah 7:8

72

Habakkuk 1:13

177*

Malachi 3:7

48

4:2413

Isaiah 1:15

46

1:19

24:16 Peshitta

40:4

40949

347

42:11470

43:2255

50:6457

53:228

54:1181

54:13413

55:6-949

58:254, 64

58:354

58:949

59:1, 2

61:1

65:246

314*

48

Jeremiah 2:18

200

20:9347

31 (48):10

38 (31):33

43 (36):2-3

45 (38):6

47 (40):1189

413*

49*

27*

27*

Ezekiel 9:5, 6

75*

16:49199*

33:1148

33:14-1549

36:26

40:1

47:3-5175

429*

96*

Daniel 3:20 ff

27*

5:1 ff

6:16 ff

12:1376*

27*

473*

Matthew 3:5

476*

3:11

4:1456

169*, 172*

5:4178

5:7313*, 423

5:886*

5:15400*

5:16428

5:19428

5:28459

5:39411

5:40411*

5:45-87*, 392*

5:46-488*

5:48376

6:611*

6:724*

6:8270

6:1011

6:11233*

6:21423*

6:24288*

6:2624*

6:2824*

6:3124*, 390*

6:3224*

6:3324*, 63, 128*, 270, 288*

6:34473

7:7340

7:14456*

8:11, 1257

8:1362

8:20385

10:9, 10233*

10:25385

10:2825

10:37288*

10:3825

10:3925, 168*, 355*

11:11470*

11:28225*, 248, 428

11:29349, 453

11:30428

12:31314

12:34407*

13:4357, 418*

14:10467*

14:23371*

14:30255

15:1457

16:24167, 168, 355*, 429

16:25168*

16:27417*

18:3254, 353, 476*

19:17429

19:21429*

19:27110

20:13-15251

20:2225

21:22255

22:1114*, 396*

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Matthew 22:21

111, 421

22:37220

23:2455*

24:30417*

25:10417*

25:31, 3357

25:4157*

26:26, 28346*

26:4125, 340*, 370

Mark 1:35

371*

2:17314

9:23256

10:27256

16:17256*, 425*

Luke 1:8 ff

120*

1:10 ff120*

4:18314*

4:2357

6:24455

6:3030

6:31380

6:35251*

6:368*

7:41, 42314*

10:18423*

11:8340

11:17400*

13:2425

14:24350

14:26346*

14:33303*

15:11 ff251*, 261*, 299*

16:20 ff276*

17:10433, 446, 458

17:20435*

17:2111*, 85*, 264*

17:33472*

18:369*

18:13433

21:1925

21:36370

22:30224*

22:44143*

23:21456

23:34314*

23:39423*

24:42401*

John 3:5

305*, 425*, 463*

3:16345*

4:21466

4:23466

4:24466

6:50224*

6:58224*

10:9441

10:28168*

13:35428

14:255*

14:6456*

14:15-17263*, 440

14:16402

14:17-20419*

14:21428, 461*

14:23183*, 428

14:26413*

14:30385

15:10440

16:12444

16:13263*, 413*, 444

16:21464

16:3325, 294

17:19346

21:15 ff314*

Acts 1:4

384

1:8384

2:13421*

3:15439

9:15342*

9:17444

10:3 ff120*

10:9 ff120*

12:7 ff27*

14:2225*

21:30 ff27*

26:2439*

Romans 1:26

13

1:28186*

2:15141*

2:2464

2:29456*

3:19296

3:23, 24223

5:7, 8246*, 251*

8:5429*

8:6221*, 395

8:715, 429*

8:8429*

8:15255, 361*

8:16385

8:17161*

8:1829*, 453

8:19, 21180*

8:21448

8:22180

8:24, 25437*

8:26182*

8:35440*

8:38333*, 440*

9:3317, 345, 414*, 434, 440

9:18447

10:2422

10:17227*, 262*

11:32426*

11:33135, 179*

12:4464*

12:21411, 433

13:1463

15:1243*

15:427*

1 Corinthians

1:18432

2:911, 34*, 215*, 224, 394*, 443*

2:10443*

2:16135, 298*, 341*, 454*

3:1691*

3:18352

4:8455

8:1259

9:16317

9:27434

10:13212, 241, 362*

12:23424*

12:27424*

13:1, 2441

13:9257*

13:10263*

13:1256*, 80, 83*, 231*

14:1197*

14:15466

14:22406*

15:9434

15:10259

15:23418*

15:26417

15:31293*

15:41160*

15:50395, 429

15:52417*

2 Corinthians

1:5

364

1:2211*, 425*

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2 Corinthians

3:18

11

4:6175, 461

10:565, 150*

11:14193*

11:17434

12:234, 119, 444*, 445

12:3438*

12:434, 438*, 444*, 445

12:7296, 341

12:9341*

12:11297*, 434

Galatians

2:6455*

3:27305*

5:8213

5:1719

5:21187*

5:22187*, 243*, 415*, 421*, 425*

6:1243*

6:7314, 416*

6:14432, 466*, 476*

6:17466*

Ephesians 3:18

319*

4:13355*, 461*

4:22, 23367*, 395*, 429*

4:24429*

5:16231*

Philippians 1:29

289

2:3177*

2:7382*, 456

2:13287

4:5, 6255, 390

4:7405

4:13259

Colossians 1:5

213*

1:18424*

1:24345*

3:1175

3:513*, 109*, 173*

3:22254*

4:3139*

1 Thessalonians

4:17

417*

5:5452*

5:17370

1 Timothy

1:13

434

1:15314, 434

1:16434

2:528, 139*

2 Timothy

3:12

Hebrews355*

1:14140

4:383*

5:1457

8:10413*

9:7120*

9:8143*

9:22436

10:20382*

11:1380*, 294*

11:33271*

11:37 ff294*

11:38159*, 368*

11:40342

12:2126*, 346, 402*

12:21381

13:12169

James 2:19 ff

65*, 463*

4:6455

1 Peter

1:4-5

452

3:14289

4:13289

2 Peter

1:19

412*

1 John

3:21

203

4:8224