9 Theognostos emphasizes two important truths that are often obscured. First, God is “angry” at our sins but not at us. Second, he immediately goes on to point out the metaphorical nature of such language about God. God “is beyond passion and vengefulness.” 10 Theognostos (fourteenth century?) is known to us only as the author of the work included in the Philokalia. We will not be punished or condemned in the age to be because we have sinned, since we were given a mutable and unstable nature. But