坚信者马克西姆 AMB. TH. 3

坚信者马克西姆 AMB. TH. 3

It does not refer to my situation, for I am sullied by sin and completely without an appetite for what is life in the true sense. It refers to yours, for through the perfect recovery of nature you are distinguished by grace alone and are destined by the power that derives from this to be proved a god in the same degree as he who is God by nature partook of your weakness when he became incarnated, the deification (Theosis) of those who are being saved by grace being measure out in a manner known only to himself against his own selfemptying kenosis). They will become wholly godlike and receptive of the whole of God and him alone. For this is the perfection towards which those who believe that they are truly following the promise hasten.

Amb. Th. 3, PG 91.1040CD, Maximus the Confessor – 坚信者马克西姆