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This volume includes a translation of four spiritual treatises of Maximus the Confessor (c. 580–662), plus an account of his trial. Included are The Four Hundred Chapters of Love, Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer, Chapters on Knowledge, The Church’s Mystagogy, and Trial of Maximus.

all from their passions right away, still as a good and loving physician he heals in his own good time each one of those who are striving. 40. Pride comes along in the quieting of the passions either in the removal of the causes or in the crafty withdrawal of the demons. 41. Nearly every sin is committed for pleasure, and its removal comes about through distress and sorrow whether voluntary or involuntary, through repentance or any predetermined happening brought on by Providence. For, “if we should
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