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21 " It is not susceptible of repentance because it is incorporeal. For it is owing to the weakness of his body that man comes to have repentance. "
― John of Damascus , An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
22 " They are above us for they are incorporeal, and are free of all bodily passion, yet are not passionless: "
23 " he did not sustain the brightness and the honour which the Creator had bestowed(5) on him, and of his free choice was changed from what was in harmony to what was at variance with his nature, and became roused against God Who created him, and determined to rise in rebellion against Him(6): and he was the first to depart from good and become evil(7). "
24 " the Deity is undivided amongst things divided, to put it concisely: and it is just like three suns cleaving to each other without separation and giving out light mingled and conjoined into one. "
25 " По природа всичко е подчинено и послушно на Създателя. Затова всеки път, щом някое създание своеволно се възпротиви и стане непослушно към Сътворилия го, то произвежда зло в самото себе си. "