Letter 925
To Phocas the Reader. [anagnostes, a lector, the minor clerical order of readers]
Our sin-loving thoughts, and the swarm of our unclean deeds, are an exultation for the madness of the demons. But nevertheless, whenever we are able to become sober again and to turn back to Christ the lover of mankind, at once the hostile ones are turned to wailings and lamentation and unbearable grief. Whence Baruch says concerning their wickedness: "Just as he rejoiced and was glad at your fall, so shall he grieve at his own desolation; and I will take away her exultation of the great multitude, and I will turn her arrogance into mourning." [a paraphrase of Baruch 4:33]
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἀγαλλίαμα ὑπάρχουσι τῆς δαιμόνων μανίας οἱ φιλαμαρτήμονες ἡμῶν λογισμοὶ, καὶ ὁ ἐσμὸς τῶν ἀκαθάρτων πράξεων. Ἀλλ' ὅμως ὅταν δυνηθῶμεν ἀνανῆψαι, καὶ πρὸς Χριστὸν ἐπιστρέψαι τὸν φιλάνθρωπον, εὐθέως οἱ δυσμενεῖς πρὸς ὀδυρμοὺς, καὶ κοπετὸν τρέπονται, καὶ λύπην ἀφόρητον. Ὅθεν φησὶ Βαροὺχ περὶ τῆς τούτων κακίας, ὅτι «Ὥσπερ ἐχάρη, καὶ εὐφράνθη ἐπὶ τῷ πτώματί σου, οὕτως λυπηθήσεται ἐπὶ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ἐρημώσει · καὶ περιελῶ αὐτῆς τὸ ἀγαλλίαμα τῆς πολυοχλίας, καὶ τὸ γαυρίαμα αὐτῆς εἰς πένθος μεταβαλῶ.»
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