Τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα συμπάσχον τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ ἀσθενίᾳ καὶ ἀκαθάρτοις οὖσιν ἐπιφοιτᾷ ἡμῖν, καὶ ἐὰν εὕροι τὸν νοῦν μόνον φιλαλήθως αὐτῷ προσευχόμενον ἐπιβαίνει αὐτῷ, καὶ ἅπασαν τὴν κυκλοῦσαν αὐτὸν τῷν λογισμῶν ἢ νοημάτων φάλαγγα, ἐξαφανίζει, προτρεπόμενον αὐτὸν εἰς ἔρωτα πνευματικῆς προσευχῆς. Οἱ μὲν λοιποὶ διὰ τῆς ἀλλοιώσεως τοῦ σώματος ἐμποιοῦσι τῷ νῷ λογισμοὺς ἢ νοήματα ἢ θεωρήματα. ̔Ο δὲ γε θεὸς τοὺναντίον δρᾳ· αὐτῷ τῷ νῷ ἐπιβαίνων, ἐντίθησιν αὐτῷ γνῶσιν ὧν βούλεται, καὶ διὰ τοῦ νοῦ τὴν ἀκρασίαν τοῦ σώματος κατευνάζει. Εὐάγριος ὁ Ποντικός, Περι προσευχῆς |
The Holy Spirit, sympathizing with our weakness, regularly visits us even in our uncleanliness, and if he only finds the mind loving truth and praying to it, He enters into it and destroys the whole battle array of thoughts and ideas circling around it, urging it onward to the love of spiritual prayer. Other things produce thoughts or ideas or contemplations in the mind by affecting the body, but God does the opposite: entering into the mind, He places within it knowledge as He wishes and through the mind He lulls the weakness of the body.
Evagrius Ponticus, On Prayer |
3 Jul 2015
The Utility of Prayer
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