Dialogue with Heraclides
Bishops examine Heraclides on the Father, the Son, and the soul. Gaps in the Greek are marked, not filled.
English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Greek on each section for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.
- 1 Heraclides confesses; the Son was God before the body
- 2 Two Gods, and one power
- 3 How two are one: flesh, spirit, God
- 4 I and the Father are one; offering to God through God
- 5 Covenants; a dead body, not a spiritual one
- 6 Christ dies no more; Maximus; spirit, soul, body
- 7 The whole man taken up; deposit of the spirit
- 8 Do not touch me; faith and life together
- 9 Pure heart and clean hands; lesser sins too
- 10 Drunkard and reviler; is the soul blood?
- 11 The texts that pull them aside; two men
- 12 Not a human-shaped God; pearls and dogs
- 13 Swine, pearls, be transformed
- 14 From dogs, swine, serpents; fruits of repentance
- 15 Agony of speaking; inside and outside; the first man
- 16 Image without dust; eyes of the inner man
- 17 Eyes of the mind; ears in our power
- 18 The deaf asp; fragrance of Christ
- 19 Stench, taste, and the woman's touch
- 20 Hands, feet, the wise man's head
- 21 Belly, bones, and the saw
- 22 Lost heart, numbered hairs, inner blood
- 23 Better to depart and be with Christ
- 24 Ready for death; Demetrius on immortality
- 25 Three deaths; immortal and not immortal
- 26 They will seek death; Balaam; perhaps not always mortal
- 27 He who alone has immortality; life set before us
- 28 From the shadow into the life