{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2040.tlg047.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg047.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg047.local001","title":"Prologus 4 (prooemium in asceticum magnum)","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"BASILIUS Caesariensis Theol.","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2040-basilius-caesariensis/","editors":[],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Corpus local","sourceTitle":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"place":null,"date":null,"volume":null,"series":null,"citation":"Prologus 4 (prooemium in asceticum magnum), MPG 31: 889–901. Cod: 1,973: Eccl.","citationShort":"Prologus 4 (prooemium in asceticum magnum), MPG 31: 889–901."},"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._031.pdf","sourceLinkType":"facsimile","sourceRights":"Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0","citation":"Prologus 4 (prooemium in asceticum magnum). Prologus 4 (prooemium in asceticum magnum), MPG 31: 889–901.. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2040.tlg047.local001","excerpt":"ἀπαιτοῦντος τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμῶν, ἀπαρασκεύαστοι τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἔργων, τῆς μὲν χαρᾶς τοῦ νυμφῶνος ἀποβληθῶμεν, ἀργὰ δὲ καὶ ἀνόνητα μετακλαίω- μεν, τὸν κακῶς παρεθέντα τοῦ βίου χρόνον ὀδυρό- μενοι τότε, ὅτε πλέον οὐδὲν ἐξέσται τοῖς μεταμελο- μένοις. Νῦν καιρὸς εὐπρόσδεκτος, φησὶν ὁ Ἀπό- στολος, νῦν ἡμέρα σωτηρίας. Οὗτος ὁ αἰὼν τῆς μετανοίας, ἐκεῖνος τῆς ἀνταποδόσεως· οὗτος τῆς ὑπομονῆς, ἐκεῖνος τῆς παρακλήσεως. Νῦν βοηθὸς τῶν ἐπιστρεφόντων ἀπὸ ὁδοῦ κακῆς ὁ Θεὸς, τότε φοβερὸς καὶ ἀπαραλόγιστος τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πρα- γμάτων τε καὶ ῥημάτων καὶ ἐνθυμημάτων ἐξετα- στής. Νῦν τῆς μακροθυμίας ἀπολαύομεν, τότε τὴν δικαιοκρισίαν γνωρίσομεν, ὅταν ἀναστῶμεν, οἱ μὲν εἰς κόλασιν αἰώνιον, οἱ δὲ εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον, καὶ ἀπολάβῃ ἕκαστος κατὰ τὴν πρᾶξιν αὐτοῦ. Πρὸς τί- να καιρὸν ὑπερτιθέμεθα τὴν ὑπακοὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, τοῦ καλέσαντος ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν ἐπουράνιον ἑαυτοῦ βασιλείαν; Οὐκ ἐκνήψομεν; οὐκ ἀνακαλεσόμεθα ἑαυτοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ…","divisions":[{"label":"31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg047.local001/#tlg2040-tlg047-local001-31"},{"label":"Section 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg047.local001/#tlg2040-tlg047-local001-segment-1"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040.tlg047.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2040.tlg047.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2040/tlg047/local001.json.gz"}}