God gifts strength; remember Egypt; Book 5 closes into Book 6 title
is, and gifting the being able to contend down those who have stood against, even if they should be borne against with strengths much greater than those in us. For that we do not drip unprofitable sweat, having endured through the toils on behalf of virtue, Moses will teach saying in Deuteronomy: ‘And you will remember all the way which the Lord your God led you in the desert, in order that he might afflict you and test you out, and the things in your heart might be known through, whether you will keep his commandments, or not.’ And he does not allow being sick with the unmanly cowardice, when we look well at the defending hand. And he writes thus again: ‘And if you say in your mind that This nation is much, or I, how will I be able to wipe them out? you will not fear them; with memory you will remember as many things as the Lord your God did to Pharaoh, and to all the Egyptians—the great trials which your eyes have seen; the signs, and those great wonders, the strong hand, and the high arm; as the Lord your God led you out; thus the Lord our God will do to all the nations whom you fear from their face.’ ON ADORATION AND WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH
Greek
ἐστὶ, καὶ τὸ καταθλεῖν δύνασθαι τῶν ἀνθεστηκότων δωρούμενος, κἂν εἰ πολὺ μείζοσιν ἢ ταῖς ἐν ἡμῖν ἀντιφέροιντο ἀλκαῖς. Ὅτι γὰρ οὐκ ἀνόνητον ἱδρῶτα καταστάζομεν, τοὺς ὑπὲρ ἀρετῆς ἀνατλάντες πόνους, διδάξει λέγων ἐν τῷ Δευτερονομίῳ Μωσῆς· «Καὶ μνησθήσῃ πᾶσαν τὴν ὁδὸν, ἢν ἤγαγέ σε Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, ὅπως ἂν κακώσῃ σε καὶ ἐκπειράσῃ σε, καὶ διαγνωσθῇ τὰ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου, εἰ φυλάξῃ τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ, ἢ οὔ.» Νοσεῖν δὲ τὴν ἄνανδρον οὐκ ἐᾷ δειλίαν, ἀνασκοπουμένους εὖ μάλα τὴν τοῦ προασπίζοντος χεῖρα. Γράφει δὲ οὕτω πάλιν· «Ἐὰν δὲ λέγῃς ἐν τῇ διανοίᾳ σου, ὅτι Πολὺ τὸ ἔθνος τοῦτο, ἢ ἐγὼ, πῶς δυνήσομαι ἐξολοθρεῦσαι αὐτούς; οὐ φοβηθήσῃ αὐτούς· μνείᾳ μνησθήσῃ ὅσα ἐποίησε Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου τῷ Φαραὼ, καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις τοὺς πειρασμοὺς τοὺς μεγάλους, οὓς ἑωράκασιν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου· τὰ σημεῖα, καὶ τὰ τέρατα τὰ μεγάλα ἐκεῖνα, τὴν χεῖρα τὴν κραταιὰν, καὶ τὸν βραχίονα τὸν ὑψηλόν· ὡς ἐξήγαγέ σε Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου· οὕτως ποιήσει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, οὓς σὺ φοβῇ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν.» ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΝ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΣΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΤΡΕΙΑΣ
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Cyril continues the dialogue with Palladius. Book 5 of a seventeen-book dialogue — not the whole work.
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