Ecstacies And Judgements

εἴτε γὰρ ἐξέστημεν, θεῷ: εἴτε σωφρονοῦμεν, ὑμῖν.  Ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ἐπὶ τούτοις ἐλεγχέσθωσαν παρ' ὑμῶν, λέγει δὲ περὶ τῶν ψευδαποστόλων, ἡμεῖς δὲ ὑμῶν χάριν καὶ δι' ὑμᾶς ταῦτα πράττομεν· κἄν τε γὰρ ἔξω τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων γενόμενοι τῷ θεῷ ἐκστῶμεν, ἀλλ' οὖν σωφρονοῦμεν ὑμῖν, τῆς θείας ἐκστάσεως οὐ μανίαν ἀλλὰ νηφαλιότητα ἐχούσης. Οὐ προσεκτέον γὰρ τοῖς ἀπὸ τῶν Φρυγῶν λέγουσι τοὺς ἀποστόλους καὶ προφήτας ἐξίστασθαι ὥστε παραπαίειν· παρηκολούθουν γὰρ οἷς ἔλεγον καὶ ἔπραττον, εἰ καί τινες ἄλλοι. Ἠπατήθησαν δὲ οἱ ἠλίθιοι ἐκ τῆς ὁμωνυμίας· οὐ γὰρ μόνον τὸ παραπαίειν καὶ παρακόπτειν σημαίνει ἡ ἐξέστη φωνή, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἐκπλαγῆναι ἐπὶ θαυμασμῷ. Οὕτω γὰρ ἐξέστη Ἰσαὰκ ἔκστασιν μεγάλην, καὶ ἐκστήσονταί τινες ἐπὶ τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς αὐτοῦ, κατὰ τὸν προφήτην. Εἰ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα τινα δηλοῦται ὑπὸ τῆς φωνῆς, ἐπιστήτω ὁ ἐντυγχάνων ταῖς γραφαῖς.  Δυδύμος του Ἀλεξανδρέως, Εἰς Την Δευτεραν Ἐπιστολήν Προς Κορινθίους, Ἐκλογή, Κεφ Ε' Migne PG 39.1702d-1703a

For if we are in an ecstasy, it is for God. If we are sober, it is for you. 1 So let them be proved by you concerning these things, and he speaks here of false apostles, but we for your sake do these things, and even if our mind leaps beyond human things to God, nevertheless we are sober when we turn to you, because Divine ecstasy is not madness but the possession of sobriety. Do not attend to those from Phrygia who call themselves apostles and prophets and when in ecstasy lose their minds, for even what they speak and do they know beforehand. And this sham for the simple he makes a homonym. For the word ecstasy not only signifies delirium or loss of control, but even an astonishment from admiration. For so Issac was shaken with a great ecstasy, 2 and not a few have experience of ecstasy in the Lord and His good things, 3 as the Prophet says. But even if there are other meanings to this word, let it be known what occurs in the Scriptures. Didymus the Blind, Fragment from a Commentary On The Second Letter of St Paul to the Corinthians, Chap 5 1 2 Cor 5.13 2 Gen 27.33 3 Hosea 3.5