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The Church Fathers · c. 425–440

On the Spiritual Law

Mark the Monk

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What it is

Two hundred short sentences on how the law works inside a person, insisting against one party that baptism gives everything and against another that nothing is received without being worked out — grace is complete and hidden, and is uncovered by keeping the commandments.

Why it lasted

The Eastern answer to the question the West was tearing itself apart over in the same years, arrived at independently and framed as neither Augustine nor Pelagius framed it. Stands at the head of the Philokalia.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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