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The Church Fathers · c. 626
Four Centuries on Love
Maximus the Confessor · c. 580–662
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What it is
Four hundred short sentences on the passions, self-love, and the love that reaches through the neighbour to God, in the tradition of Evagrius but corrected on the body.
Why it lasted
The most accessible door into Maximus, and one of the texts that made the Philokalia possible.
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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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