In what manner we become and will be temples of God, when we bear an alien or created spirit, and not rather the Spirit of God? How will we participate in God’s nature, according to the sayings of the saints, those who participate in the Spirit, if the Spirit belongs to the created things and does not come to us rather from the divine nature herself, not coming through herself to us as an alien, but, to say it thus, becoming in us something like a quality of the deity, and dwells in the saints and there remains forever, if they keep clean their mind’s eye and, through persisting attachment to the wholeness of virtue, maintain for themselves the grace. Because the Christ says that the Spirit can not be contained and can not be seen by those who are in the world, that is, by those who are after worldly things and chose to love the earthly, but it can be contained and is well seen by the saints.

κατὰ τίνα δὲ τρόπον ναοὶ Θεοῦ χρηματιοῦμεν καὶ ἐσόμεθα͵ κτιστὸν ἢ ἀλλογενὲς κομιζόμενοι πνεῦμα͵ καὶ οὐχὶ μᾶλλον τὸ ἐκ Θεοῦ; πῶς δὲ θείας φύσεως κοινωνοὶ͵ κατὰ τὰς τῶν ἁγίων φωνὰς͵ οἱ Πνεύματος μέτοχοι͵ εἰ τοῖς γενητοῖς ἐναρίθμιόν ἐστι͵ καὶ οὐχὶ μᾶλλον ἐξ αὐτῆς ἡμῖν τῆς θείας φύσεως πρόεισιν͵ οὐ διικνούμενον δι΄ αὐτῆς εἰς ἡμᾶς ὡς ἀλλότριον ἀλλ΄͵ ἵν΄ οὕτως εἴπω͵ ποιότης ὥσπερ τις τῆς θεότητος ἐν ἡμῖν γινόμενον͵ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις κατοικοῦν͵ καὶ ἀπομένον διὰ παντὸς͵ εἰ τῆς ἑαυτῶν διανοίας τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν διὰ πάσης ἐπιεικείας ἀποκαθαίροντες καὶ διὰ τῆς εἰς πᾶσαν ἀρετὴν ἀνενδότου σπουδῆς͵ συντηροῖεν ἑαυτοῖς τὴν χάριν. ἀχώρητον μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἀθεώρητον αὐτὸ τοῖς ἐν κόσμῳ φησὶν ὁ Χριστὸς͵ τουτέστι͵ τοῖς τὰ ἐν κόσμῳ φρονοῦσι καὶ ἀγαπᾶν ἑλομένοις τὰ ἐπίγεια͵ χωρητὸν γεμὴν καὶ εὐκάτοπτον τοῖς ἁγίοις.