Discourses and Letters: Historical Greek Collection
This Greek collection gathers 127 discourses and letters attributed to Symeon in the historical Migne source tradition. Its teaching returns to love, the keeping of Christ’s commandments and the experience of spiritual illumination, with letters preserving the circumstances of spiritual friendship and exile.
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Greek edition · TB-2154
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Key themes
- Keeping the commandments
- Spiritual illumination
- Letters and exile
Questions for your reading
- How does the text connect love for Christ with keeping his commandments?
About the editions
Historical body in a digital collection; 2017 dates the compilation rather than the medieval work.


