{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2934.tlg066.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2934.tlg066.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2934.tlg066.local001","title":"Βαρλαάμ καί Ἰωάσαφ","titleGreek":"Βαρλαάμ καί Ἰωάσαφ","alternateTitles":[],"author":"John of Damascus","authorityName":"JOANNES DAMASCENUS Scr. Eccl. et","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2934-joannes-damascenus-scr-eccl-et/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2934-joannes-damascenus-scr-eccl-et/","editors":["George Ratcliffe Woodward","Harold Mattingly"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Barlaam and Ioasaph","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann","place":"London","date":"1914","volume":null,"series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/stjohndamasceneb00wood/page/n27/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"John Of Damascus. Βαρλαάμ καί Ἰωάσαφ. ed. George Ratcliffe Woodward, Harold Mattingly. Barlaam and Ioasaph, London, William Heinemann, 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2934.tlg066.local001","excerpt":"Rom. viii. 14 Ὅσοι Πνεύματι Θεοῦ ἄγονται, οὗτοί εἰσιν υἱοὶ Θεοῦ, φησὶν ὁ θεῖος Ἀπόστολος· τὸ δὲ Πνεύματος ἁγίου ἀξιωθῆναι καὶ υἱοὺς Θεοῦ γενέσθαι Nazianz. Orat. de Athanas., 386, 34 τῶν ὀρεκτῶν ὑπάρχει τὸ ἔσχατον, καὶ οὗ γενομένοις μένοις πάσης θεωρίας ἀνάπαυσις, καθὼς γέγραπται. τῆς οὖν ὑπερφυοῦς ταύτης καὶ τῶν ἐφετῶν ἀκροτάτης μακαριότητος ἠξιώθησαν ἐπιτυχεῖν οἱ ἀπ’ αἰῶνος ἅγιοι διὰ τῆς τῶν ἀρετῶν ἐργασίας· οἱ Heb. xii. 4 μὲν μαρτυρικῶς ἀθλήσαντες καὶ μέχρις αἵματος πρὸς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἀντικαταστάντες, οἱ δὲ ἀσκητικῶς ἀγωνισάμενοι, καὶ τὴν στενὴν βαδίσαντες Mat. vii. 14 ὁδόν, καὶ μάρτυρες τῇ προαιρέσει γενόμενοι. ὧν τὰς ἀριστείας καὶ τὰ κατορθώματα, τῶν τε δι’ Luke xiii. 32 αἵματος τελειωθέντων καὶ τῶν δι’ ἀσκήσεως τὴν ἀγγελικὴν πολιτείαν μιμησαμένων, γραφῇ παραδιδόναι, καὶ ἀρετῆς ὑπόδειγμα ταῖς μετέπειτα παραπέμπειν γενεαῖς, ἐκ τῶν θεηγόρων Ἀποστόλων καὶ μακαρίων Πατέρων ἡ τοῦ Χριστοῦ…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΡΟΟΙΜΙΟΝ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2934.tlg066.local001/#tlg2934-tlg066-local001-praef"},{"label":"Chapter 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