# Catecheses ad illuminandos 1-8 (series tertia) 7.19

Joannes Chrysostomus Scr. Eccl. John Chrysostom, Catecheses ad illuminandos 1-8 (series tertia), Catechesis 7. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/joannes-chrysostomus-scr-eccl-john-chrysostom/catecheses-ad-illuminandos-1-8-series-tertia/7.19

Καὶ τὸ φρόνημα ἐκεῖ μεταστήσαντες, οὐδενὶ τῶν ὁρωμένων λοιπὸν ἐπεστρέφοντο· ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν δημίων τὰς χεῖρας ὁρῶντες καταξαινούσας αὐτῶν τὰς σάρκας καὶ τὸ πῦρ τοῦτο τὸ αἰσθητὸν βλέποντες ἀναπτόμενον καὶ τοὺς ἄνθρακας ἐκπηδῶντας, αὐτοὶ τὸ τῆς γεέννης πῦρ ἑαυτοῖς ὑπέγραφον καὶ οὕτω τὸν λογισμὸν αὐτῶν νευρώσαντες ἥλλοντο λοιπὸν ὡς εἰπεῖν πρὸς τὰ δεινά, οὐ τὴν παροῦσαν ὀδύνην τὴν ἐγγινομένην τῷ σώματι λογιζόμενοι ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὴν διηνεκῆ ἀνάπαυσιν σπεύδοντες. Καὶ κατὰ τὴν παραίνεσιν τοῦ μακαρίου τούτου τὰ ἄνω φρονοῦντες, διετέλουν οὗ ὁ Χριστός ἐστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ Θεοῦ καθήμενος. Καὶ οὐδὲν τῶν ὁρωμένων κατεπλήττοντο, ἀλλὰ πάντα παρέτρεχον ὡς ὄναρ καὶ σκιὰν αὐτὰ ἡγούμενοι, διὰ τὸ πτερωθῆναι αὐτῶν τὸν λογισμὸν τῇ τῶν μελλόντων ἐπιθυμίᾳ.

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Joannes Chrysostomus Scr. Eccl. John Chrysostom, Catecheses ad illuminandos 1-8 (series tertia). Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg2062.tlg382.local001/.