Dragoş A. Giulea Milwaukee, WI THE HEAVENLY FIRE WORKING THE EARTH OF THE HEART: ORIGEN, ANTONY, PSEUDO-MACARIUS, AND THE INTERNALIZATION OF THE IMAGE OF DIVINE FIRE One of the texts belonging to both the Ps.-Macarian collections B and H commences with the following fragment: That celestial fire ( ) of the Godhead ( ), which Christians receive now in this life within themselves ( ) in the heart ( ), and serves () internally in their hearts ( ), will manifest itself exter- nally aĞer the dissolution of the body, will join again the bodily members and engender resurrection to the dismembered parts ( ). For just as the fire which served at the altar in Jerusalem ( ) at the time of the captivity was buried in a hole, and that same fire, when peace came and the captives returned, was renewed to its original condition and served according to the old practice ( ), likewise the heavenly fire refashions and renews ( ) this immediate body—which aĞer its decomposition turns to mire—and raises up the corrupted bodies. For that internal fire which inhabits our hearts ( ) emerges then externally and engenders resurrection of the bodies ( ). 1 (1) B 53.1–2.1–12 and H 11.1.1–13. The differences between the two texts are minor and not significant for the present argument. For the Greek text I will make use of the Sermones 64 (collectio B) edited by H. Berthold, Makarios/ Symeon Reden und Briefe, 2 vols. (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1973); Homiliae spiri- tuales 50 (collectio H) edited by H. Dörries, E. Klostermann, and M. Krüger, Die 50 Geistlichen Homilien des Makarios (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1964) (CPG 2411, PTS, 4); and Sermones 1–22, 24–27 (collection C) edited by H. Berthold, and E. Klostermann, Neue Homilien des Makarius/Symeon (Berlin: Akademie Ver- lag, 1961) (Texte und Untersuchungen, 72). English translations are mine. For a comprehansive English translation of the H collection, see G. A. Maloney’s