The Irreligious Man
of His Own Free Will Turns His Back on Life
The irreligious man is a mortal being with a rational nature, who of his own free will turns his back on life and thinks of his own Maker, the ever-existent, as non-existing. The lawless man is one who holds the law of God after his own depraved fashion, and thinks to combine faith in God with heresy that is directly opposed to Him. The Christian is one who imitates Christ in thought word and deed, as far as is possible for human beings, believing rightly and blamelessly in the Holy Trinity. The love of God is he who lives in communion with all that is natural and sinless, and as far as he is able neglects nothing good. The content man is he who in the midst of temptations, snares and turmoil, strives with all his might to imitate the ways of Him who is free from these. The monk is he who within his early and soiled body toils towards the rank and state of the incorporeal beings [angels], who strictly controls his nature and unceasingly watches over his senses, mouth pure, and mind illumined.
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