But, be it so. Lofty thou art, even beyond the lofty, even above the clouds, if thou wilt, a spectator of things invisible, a hearer of things unspeakable; one who hast ascended after Elias, and who after Moses hast been deemed worthy of the Vision of God, and after Paul hast been taken up into heaven why dost thou mould the rest of thy fellows in one day into Saints, and ordain them Theologians, and as it were breathe into them instruction, and make them many councils of ignorant oracles? Why dost thou entangle those who are weaker in thy spider's web, if it were something great and wise? Why dost thou stir up wasps' nests against the Faith? Why dost thou suddenly spring a flood of dialectics upon us, as the fables of old did the Giants? Why hast thou collected all that is frivolous and unmanly among men, like a rabble, into one torrent, and having made them more effeminate by flattery, fashioned a new workshop, cleverly making a harvest for thyself out of their want of understanding? Dost thou deny that this is so, and are the other matters of no account to thee? Must thy tongue rule at any cost, and canst thou not restrain the birthpang of thy speech? Thou mayest find many other honourable subjects for discussion. To these turn this disease of thine with some advantage.

Ἔστω δέ· ὑψηλὸς σύ͵ καὶ ὑψηλῶν πέρα͵ καὶ ὑπὲρ τὰς νεφέλας͵ εἰ βούλει͵ ὁ τῶν ἀθεάτων θεατής͵ ὁ τῶν ἀρρήτων ἀκροατής͵ ὁ μετὰ Ἠλίαν μετάρσιος͵ καὶ ὁ μετὰ Μωυσέα θεοφανείας ἠξιωμένος͵ καὶ μετὰ Παῦλον οὐράνιος. τί καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους αὐθήμερον πλάττεις ἁγίους͵ καὶ χειροτονεῖς θεολόγους͵ καὶ οἷον ἐμπνεῖς τὴν παίδευσιν͵ καὶ πεποίηκας λογίων ἀμαθῶν πολλὰ συνέδρια; τί τοῖς ἀραχνίοις ὑφάσμασιν ἐνδεσμεῖς τοὺς ἀσθενεστέρους͵ ὡς δή τι σοφὸν καὶ μέγα; τί σφηκιὰς ἐγείρεις κατὰ τῆς πίστεως; τί σχεδιάζεις ἡμῖν διαλεκτικῶν ἀνάδοσιν͵ ὥσπερ οἱ μῦθοι πάλαι τοὺς γίγαντας; τί τῶν ἀνδρῶν ὅσον κοῦφον καὶ ἄνανδρον͵ ὥσπερ τινὰ συρφετόν͵ εἰς μίαν χαράδραν συναγαγών͵ καὶ κολακείᾳ πλέον θηλύνας͵ καινὸν ἀσεβείας ἐργαστήριον ἐδημιούργησας͵ οὐκ ἀσόφως τὴν ἄνοιαν αὐτῶν ἐκκαρπούμενος; Ἀντιλέγεις καὶ τούτοις; καὶ οὐδαμοῦ σοι τἄλλα; καὶ τὴν γλῶσσαν δεῖ δυναστεύειν πάντως͵ καὶ οὐ κατέχεις τὴν ὠδῖνα τοῦ λόγου; ἔχεις καὶ ἄλλας ὑποθέσεις πολλάς τε καὶ φιλοτίμους. ἐκεῖ τρέψον μετὰ τοῦ χρησίμου τὴν νόσον.

Cf. ORIGEN : These things must happen to each of us mystically, You will find a divine perception, Let our whole life be a life of prayer ||| MAXIMUS CONFESSOR : Teachers of the clean mind ||| PETER DAMASCENE : What is true faith? ||| PAPATSONIS : Scheme, Wisdom, In Rising Sound