§ 117. Сочинения нравоучительные. Сочинения подложные.

IV) From among the moralizing works of St. Athanasius: the epistle to Ammun against those who condemned marriage and about the uncleanness of the night, and the epistle to Rufinian on how to receive heretics into the Church, are filled with spiritual prudence. One of the best works in style, a letter to Dracontius, who hid in the desert from his appointment as a bishop, contains admonitions - not to hide talents to the detriment of one’s salvation, to value the hopes of the brethren and the importance of the intended rank, and to firmly remember that just as in the episcopal see one can be a monk, so in the desert one can remain only with the name of a monk. One of the most edifying works of St. Athanasius is the life of the Great Anthony, described by him in 365. Blzh. Augustine says about himself that this biography contributed greatly to his conversion from a distracted life 197. St. Chrysostom advises everyone to read the life of Anthony, no matter what their condition 198. It was known not only to the contemporaries of Augustine 199, but also to the contemporaries of Athanasius himself - Serapion of Tmuite and Gregory of Nazianza 200. Therefore, its authenticity is undoubted. The same cannot be said about many other works decorated with the name of St. Athanasius of Alexandria. Impartial criticism recognized up to 70 works as those that do not worthily or rightfully bear the name of the famous Saint of the 4th century 201. These include: 1) Creed: Quicunque, so famous among Protestants and in the Roman Church, also known in the Russian Church. This symbol, in its manner of expression and its spirit, is worthy of the name of Athanasiev, with which it is inscribed, but nevertheless it was not written by St. Athanasius and not even in Greek, a) The syllable in it is Latin, not Greek; its Latin text is one, but its Greek is varied, b) It refutes the Nestorian, Eutychean and Monothelite heresies, while there is no word: consubstantial, which is so necessary for the Athanasiev Symbol. c) No one mentioned it in the West before the Council of Augustus of 670, and in the Greek Church they heard about it for the first time in 1223 from the ambassadors of the pope, d) Finally, St. Athanasius did not consider it permissible for himself to write any Symbol, for fear, as he said, so that they would not consider the Symbol of Nicea 202 insufficient. Based on all these signs, it is likely that the imaginary Symbol of Athanasius was written by Vigilius of Tapsia in the 5th century, who produced a fair number of other works with the name of Athanasius. This Symbol was transferred to the Slavic Psalter from the West 203. 2) In later Slavic manuscripts, Athanasius’ answers to Prince Antiochus 204 are very common; in Greek RKP. In addition to these answers, Athanasius assigned two other works for the same Antiochus. Perhaps some of the answers belong to St. Athanasius. At least one - the 137th answer - undoubtedly belongs to the 4th century 205. But in their present form, the answers are a) evidenced by St. Epiphanius (3rd answer and given) and Gregory of Nyssa (8th answer); b) they read extracts from Cyril of Alexandria, Theodoret, Maximus and Climacus; and in the 44th answer it is written: “the seventh century is already passing” and speaks of the devastation of the Arabs and the movements of the Nestorians. d) Six of these answers are inscribed with the name of Athanasius the Small ψιλός 206. Thus, it must be assumed that after St. Athanasius, another Athanasius the Younger, precisely from the 7th century, and then others supplemented the first set of answers, so that in the current composition there is not even a twentieth part of what could be attributed to St. Athanasius. Some of these answers must be attributed to the 7th century because the Ravenna writer of the 7th century already knew the answers of Athanasius to Antiochus. And that the current answers to Antiochus do not belong to the same writer, this is also shown by the lists where the number of answers is completely unequal - in some 33 answers are written, in others 41 or 44, in some 136 or more. However, the answers to Antiochus contain many useful things that would not offend the spirit of St. Afanasia. On the contrary, the other two works for Antiochus, neither in style, nor in content, either as a whole or in parts, are not worth bearing the name of the great shepherd of Alexandria. Confession, lib. 8 cap. 6 et. 28. Note. 8, in. Mateum T. 7, p. 128. Socrates 1. 21. Palladius Lavsaik ch. 8. Rufinu I.B. 4, 8. The Latin translation compiled by Evagrius is very ancient in language and probably the same one that was read by Augustine, ed. in Actis. SS. ad. 47 lannuarii. In the Armenian translation of the 5th century, the biography is shortened and combined with the lives of other hermits. Neumann Gesch. d. Armen. Litteratur s. 76. Gregory of Nazianzus. Orat. 20 rub. 376. Serapion's message to the monks of Ar. Maium: Specil. roman, 4 p. LXIV. There are 50 authentic works and 13 dubious ones. From the forged works of Athanasius to glory. RKP. Among other things, there are: a) The Tale of the Betrayal of Judas (Op. Vol. 2, p. 444). Tolstoy RKP. XVI century 1, 256), b) Word to those who have renounced the world (Or. 594. Collection of the Sergius Lavra of the 16th century, in Tolstoy, 15th century); c) Homily on the Presentation of the Lord (or. p. 416 in Tolstoy 11, 364), d) Dispute with Arius at the Council of Nicaea (p. 206, in the RKP. Moscow Spiritual Academician). Epist. ad. Iovin. 1, 399, Ep. ad. Antioch. 1, 448–449, Epist. ad. African. 4, 725. Orat. de divinit. Christ. 1, 337. Alter (Ub. d. georgian. Litterat. Vien 4798.), says that slav. the translation of this symbol is read in the Psalter and the Missal of the Glagoliths. Henceforth, under Simeon of Polotsk, it moved to the Moscow Psalter. Not a single glory is visible. RKP. with answers to Antiochus, which would be older than the 16th century. Publisher Chr. Reader, unfortunately, included in his publication the answers to Antiochus, without reservations about their author. “Who else is this Anointed One of the Saints, if not Christ of the Living God? 70 weeks means 490 years; and from Daniel to this time 800 years have passed.” Or. r. 304. This answer is in some RCPs. written completely separately from the others. See Lambecii comm. Vindob. Lib. V, 238, 298. Lib. IV. cod. 163, 165. Kollari annot. ad. cod. 58 lib. 3, p. 254–256. You might be interested in: