1 .88 O Christ, who died for us
by Thy love, make me dead to sin and take this old man off me, so that in a newness
of mind I stand before You for all time, as if in the New Age. God , whose heaven and heavens of heaven cannot contain 16 , who
has chosen from us a reasonable temple for dwelling in it, honor me to become a
receptacle for your love, from the sensation of which the saints have forgotten
themselves and have become insane for your sake 17 and
at all times have mingled with you in intoxicated attraction to You, and never turned
back again. When they were rewarded with this sweet spring, thirsting for Your love,
You intoxicated them with amazement at Your mysteries.
MORAL-AND-ASCETIC
WORKS
(Divine Mysteries and Spiritual Life)
– St. Isaac the Syrian of Nineveh
The complete text of the "Chapters on Knowledge" includes 400 chapters, which together make up Conversation 3 from the so-called "Second Volume" of the works of St. Isaac.
