When some of the brethren were wondering at the splendid light of his knowledge and were asking of Theodore some meanings of Scripture, he said that a monk who wanted to acquire a knowledge of the Scriptures ought not to spend his labor on the works of commentators but rather keep all the efforts of his mind and intentions of his heart set on purifying himself from vices. When these are driven out, at once the eye of the heart, as if the veil of the passions were removed, will begin, as it were, naturally to gaze on the mysteries of Scripture: since they were not declared to us by the grace of
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