Remembering the Future: Toward an Eschatological Ontology

by John Zizioulas

The first human being, therefore, having deprived (ἐλλείψας) the movement of its natural powers of the energy toward the end (τῆς πρὸς τὸ τέλος ἐνεργείας) was diseased (ἐνόσησεν) with the ignorance of its own cause.75