All visible realities need the cross, that is, the state in which they are cut off from things acting upon them through the senses. All intelligible realities need burial, that is, the total quiescence of the things which act upon them through the intellect. When all relationship with such things is severed, and their natural activity and stimulus is cut off, then the Logos, who exists alone in Himself, appears as if risen from the dead. He encompasses all that comes from Him, but nothing enjoys kinship with Him by virtue of natural relationship. For the salvation of the saved is by grace and not by nature.
Τὰ φαινόμενα πάντα δεῖται σταυροῦ τῆς τῶν ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς κατ᾿ αἴσθησιν ἐνεργουμένων ἐπεχούσης τὴν σχέσιν, ἕξεως· τὰ δὲ νοούμενα πάντα, χρῄζει ταφῆς· τῆς τῶν ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς κατὰ νοῦν ἐνεργουμένων ὁλικῆς ἀκινησίας. Τῇ γὰρ σχέσει συναναιρουμένης τῆς περὶ πάντα φυσικῆς ἐνεργείας τε καὶ κινήσεως, ὁ λόγος μόνος ἐφ᾿ ἑαυτὸν ὑπάρχων, ὥσπερ ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγηγερμένος ἀναφαίνεται, πάντα κατὰ περιγραφὴν ἔχων τὰ ἐξ αὐτοῦ, μηδενὸς φυσικῇ σχέσει τὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν οἰκειότητα τὸ σύνολον ἔχοντος. Κατὰ χάριν γάρ, ἀλλ᾿ οὐ κατὰ φύσιν ἐστὶν ἡ τῶν σωζομένων σωτηρία.
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