As in a lamp when the flame has caught the wick and a person is unable to blow it out, he mixes water with the oil and by this devices will dull the flame, in the same way the enemy, by craftily mixing up badness in man's will, has produced a kind of extinguishment and dulness in the blessing, on the failure of which that which is opposed necessarily enters. For to life is opposed death, to strength weakness, to blessing curse, to frankness shame, and to all that is good whatever can be conceived as opposite. Thus it is that humanity is in its present evil condition, since that beginning introduced the occasions for such an ending.

καὶ ὥσπερ ἐπὶ λύχνου τοῦ πυρὸς τῆς θρυαλλίδος περιδεδραγμένου͵ εἴ τις ἀδυνατῶν τῷ φυσήματι σβέσαι τὴν φλόγα ὕδωρ ἐμμίξειε τῷ ἐλαίῳ διὰ τῆς ἐπινοίας ταύτης ἀμαυρώσει τὴν φλόγα͵ οὕτως δι΄ ἀπάτης τῇ προαιρέσει τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τὴν κακίαν ἐμμίξας ὁ ἀντικείμενος σβέσιν τινὰ καὶ ἀμαύρωσιν τῆς εὐλογίας ἐποίησεν͵ ἧς ἐπιλειπούσης ἐξ ἀνάγκης τὸ ἀντικείμενον ἀντεισέρχεται. ἀντίκειται δὲ τῇ ζωῇ μὲν ὁ θάνατος͵ ἡ ἀσθένεια δὲ τῇ δυνάμει͵ τῇ εὐλογίᾳ δὲ ἡ κατάρα͵ τῇ παρρησίᾳ δὲ ἡ αἰσχύνη͵ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς τὰ κατὰ τὸ ἐναντίον νοούμενα. διὰ τοῦτο ἐν τοῖς παροῦσι κακοῖς ἐστὶ νῦν τὸ ἀνθρώπινον͵ τῆς ἀρχῆς ἐκείνης τοῦ τοιούτου τέλους τὰς ἀφορμὰς παρασχούσης. 

Cf. PLATO : The Real World ||| MAXIMUS CONFESSOR : Nothing is empty of the Holy Spirit