Letter 867

To Eirenaios the Monk. He who has dispelled the dejection that has settled upon the mind through divine contemplation might aptly say, "In the morning you will hear my voice" [Psalm 5:3]. But we must understand that the "morning" is also said to us to mean the resurrection of Christ, when above all the human race, crying out by nature with unutterable groanings, was heard.

Ὁ τὴν προσιγνομένην τῷ νῷ καθήφειαν διαλύσας τῇ θείᾳ σκέψει, εὐκαίρως λέγει ἄν, ὅτι « Τὸ πρωῒ τῆς φωνῆς μου εἰσακούσῃ. » Ἀλλὰ καὶ πρωΐαν ἡμῖν λέγεσθαι νοητέον, τὴν Χριστοῦ ἀνάστασιν, ἡνίκα μάλιστα εἰσηκούσθη φυσικῶς κράζων στεναγμοῖς ἀλαλήτοις τὸ γένος τῶν ἀνθρώπων.