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NOTHING IS EMPTY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

from Questions - To Thalassius, * Question 15. Translated by Elpenor  * Greek Fonts


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Therefore, the Holy Spirit is in all universally, as holding all together and taking care of all and enlivening the natural sperms, but specifically He is also in all who obey the law, as revealing the transgression of the commands and illuminating the foretold promise according to Christ, and, besides these, He is in all who live according to Christ, as working the adoption. As generating wisdom, in none of the foresaid is universally, but only in those who have followed and understood and by living according to God have made themselves worthy of His divinising inhabitation. For, everyone who doesn't do the divine volitions, even if he is faithful, he has his heart empty of discernment, as a workshop of evil thoughts, and he has his body obliged to sins, as being full of the filth of passions.

Ἔστιν οὖν ἐν πᾶσι μὲν ἁπλῶς͵ καθ΄ ὃ πάντων ἐστὶ συνεκτικὸν καὶ προνοητικὸν καὶ τῶν φυσικῶν σπερμάτων ἀνακινητικόν͵ προσδιωρισμένως δὲ καὶ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐν νόμῳ͵ καθότι τῆς τῶν ἐντολῶν ἐστιν ὑποδεικτικὸν παραβάσεως καὶ τῆς κατὰ Χριστὸν προαγορευθείσης ἐπαγγελίας φωτιστικόν͵ ἐν δὲ πᾶσι τοῖς κατὰ Χριστόν͵ πρὸς τοῖς εἰρημένοις͵ ὡς υἱοθετητικόν. Ὡς δὲ σοφίας ποιητικὸν ἐν οὐδενὶ τῶν εἰρημένων ἐστὶν ἁπλῶς͵ πλὴν τῶν συνιέντων καὶ ἑαυτοὺς διὰ τῆς ἐνθέου πολιτείας ἀξίους ποιησαμένων τῆς αὐτοῦ θεωτικῆς ἐνοικήσεως. Πᾶς γὰρ μὴ ποιῶν τὰ θεῖα θελήματα͵ κἂν πιστός ἐστιν͵ ἀσύνετον ἔχει τὴν καρδίαν͵ ὡς πονηρῶν λογισμῶν ἐργαστήριον καὶ τὸ σῶμα κατάχρεων ἁμαρτίαις͵ ὡς διαπαντὸς μολυσμοῖς παθῶν ἐνεχόμενον.  

Cf. ANAXAGORAS : Nous ||| PLATO : The world is a living being ||| GREGORY OF NYSSA : Everything shares in the Beautiful ||| DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE : All-comprehending Smallness and Super-essential Identity ||| GREGORY PALAMAS : Calling everything near Him

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