{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2035.tlg085.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg085.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2035.tlg085.local001","title":"Epistulae ad Castorem","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"ATHANASIUS Theol.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2035-athanasius/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Epistulae ad Castorem [Sp.], MPG 28: 849–905. Cod: 11,261: Epist.","citationShort":"Epistulae ad Castorem [Sp.], MPG 28: 849–905."},"rights":{"text":"Document TEI P5 local en UTF-8.","url":null},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-29","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patrologia_Graeca_Vol._028.pdf","sourceLinkType":"facsimile","sourceRights":"Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0","citation":"Epistulae ad Castorem. Epistulae ad Castorem [Sp.], MPG 28: 849–905.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2035.tlg085.local001","excerpt":"θελημάτων αὐτοῦ. Οὐκ ἄλλως γὰρ λέγουσιν οἱ πατέρες δύνασθαί τινα τὰς ἡδονὰς χαλινοῦν, ἢ ὀργῆς περιγί- νεσθαι, ἢ λύπης, ἢ ταπείνωσιν ἀληθῆ κτήσασθαι, ἢ ἁπλῶς μετὰ ἀδελφότητος ἐν κοινοβίῳ καλῶς τελειω- θῆναι, εἰ μὴ πρότερον διὰ τῆς ὑπακοῆς νεκρώσῃ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ θελήματα. Ταύταις δὲ ταῖς διατυπώσεσι καὶ διδασκαλίαις τὸν μαθητευόμενον προβιβάσαντες ὡσ- ανεὶ στοιχείοις τισὶ, καὶ συλλαβαῖς, ἀκολούθως πάλιν διδάσκουσι μὴ κρύπτειν τοὺς ἰδίους λογισμούς· ἀλλὰ παραχρῆμα ἡνίκα ἐπέρχονται, τούτους τῷ οἰκείῳ Πα- τρὶ ἀποκαλύπτειν, καὶ μηδὲν περὶ τῆς τούτων δια- κρίσεως τῇ ἰδίᾳ καρδίᾳ πιστεύειν· ἀλλ' ἐκεῖνο γι- νώσκειν ἀγαθὸν ἢ κακὸν εἶναι; ὅπερ ταῖς ἑαυτοῦ δια- κρίσεσι δοκιμάσας ὁ Πατὴρ ἀποδείξει. Οὕτω γὰρ δυνή- σεται ἐν μηδενὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐχθροῦ ὁ πρὸς ἀρετὴν τυ- πούμενος ἀπατᾶσθαι, ὡς ἄπειρος, καὶ μήπω γνῶσιν κεκτημένος μεθοδείας· διανὲς τῆς τοῦ διαβόλου τέχνης λέγουσιν εἶναι οἱ Πατέρες, τοῦ ἀναπείθειν…","divisions":[{"label":"28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg085.local001/#tlg2035-tlg085-local001-28"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg085.local001/#tlg2035-tlg085-local001-segment-1"},{"label":"28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg085.local001/#tlg2035-tlg085-local001-28"},{"label":"Section 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg085.local001/#tlg2035-tlg085-local001-segment-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035.tlg085.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2035.tlg085.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2035/tlg085/local001.json.gz"}}