Theophonia the divine voice

Symeon the New Theologian

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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  • Keeping the commandments
  • Spiritual illumination
  • Letters and exile

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  • How does the text connect love for Christ with keeping his commandments?

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Historical body in a digital collection; 2017 dates the compilation rather than the medieval work.