Ὅσον ἐστὶν εὐκοπώτερον τὸ κατὰ διάνοιον ἁμαρτάνειν τοῦ κατ᾿ἐνέργειαν, τοσοῦτόν ἐστι βαρύτερος ὁ διὰ τῶν νοημάτων πόλεμος τοῦ διὰ τῶν πραγμάτων.
Maximus the Confessor, Four hundred chapters on love 2.72, trans. George C. Berthold, in Maximus Confessor: selected writings,Classics of Western spirituality (New York: Paulist Press, 1985), 57. Capitoli sulla carità, ed. Aldo Ceresa-Gastaldo, Verba seniorum n.s. 3 (Roma : Editrice Studium, 1963), 128; PG 90, col. . Cf. 1.91: "the demons' battle with us through thoughts is more severe than that through deeds" (45).
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