Hermeneutics

• On Reading the Lives of Martyrs and Saints (English pdf, 118 KB)

• The Revelation of the Holy Trinity to the Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (English pdf, 396 KB; Greek pdf, 367 KB
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• “Our Ascended Lord” (St. John 12:32) (English pdf, 81 KB; Greek pdf, 97 KB

• “The Eye as the Light of the Soul” (St. Matthew 6:22-23) (English pdf, 43 KB; Greek pdf, 55 KB)

• “When the Grace-Bearing Fathers Interpret the Scripture” (Greek pdf, 72 KB)

• “The Humility of the Apostle Matthew” (Greek pdf, 147 KB)

• “The Mystery of the Rapture” (Complete English pdf, 3.6 MB; Complete Greek pdf, 2.9 MB)
     The Deifying Experience of the “Rapture” of the Apostle Paul “to the Third Heaven,”
     that is, “to Paradise” (II Corinthians 12:2-4)
     Contents:
     • Prayer
     • Preface
     • Part I: The “Revelation” of the Apostle Paul (Greek pdf, 547 KB)
     • Part II: The Different Kinds of “Heavens” (Greek pdf, 455 KB)
     • Part III: The “Spacious” House of the Father (Greek pdf, 481 KB)
     • Part IV: The “Incomparable” Glory of the Mother of God (Greek pdf, 946 KB)
     • Part V: The Apprehension of “Things Most Divine” (Greek pdf, 726 KB)

• “The Greatest and Most Wondrous Polyelaios in the Entire Universe and the Renewal of the Whole of Creation” (English pdf, 290 KB; Greek pdf, 149 KB)
- Commentary by St. Nicodemos the Hagiorite on II St. Peter 3:13