Paraphrasis in Dionysium Areopagitam

we consider [it] from many labors. Our Savior and Master gladdens and comforts [us], because He is the cause of all the good things stored up for the saints. You will also seek for sleep and wakefulness to be allegorized in God, when we say sleep signifies the concession of God, and when we say wakefulness, it signifies His attention to providence. You will again seek other things. Therefore, thinking it a restraint to circulate the same things while appearing to say different things, we shall stop the discourse of the letter here, having rendered, as I suppose, even more than what you sought in your letters. Persuaded again that you wish to learn about all things, we are sending the whole symbolic theology itself, in which you will find everything: about wisdom, about the house, and about the solid food, which is divided into bread and offerings; and about all the other things. For such a book is an inventor of all symbolic theologies, and is in harmony with the sacred traditions which we have received from the holy apostle and our teacher.

LETTER TEN.

A decorative woodcut initial letter 'H' featuring floral and architectural patterns.

THE letter is worthy of that ancient sacred [tradition], and of the disciple whom Jesus loved, announcing the grace. From this letter, and from the seventh letter to holy Polycarp, it is possible to infer that the great Dionysius was about ninety years old when he wrote these things. For in the letter to holy Polycarp, he says that in the...