HYPOTHESIS 2: That one should not condemn or denigrate even one who sins openly, but should be attentive to himself and not busy himself with other people's affairs; for he who attends to his own vices in incapable of condemning his neighbor. (1hr3mins)

HYPOTHESIS 3: That one should not cause scandal through deeds performed without a blessing; what the term “scandal” means; that one should not be scandalized; and that one should heal those who are scandalized. (11mins)

HYPOTHESIS 4: That the Christian should take his every thought into captivity and offer it to Christ; for spiritual people, and certain lay people, draw positive lessons even from the most disgraceful circumstances. (6mins)

HYPOTHESIS 5: Concerning craftiness and guile, simplicity and guilelessness; whence they are engendered; what sort of harm and benefit we derive from them; and concerning envy. (4mins)

HYPOTHESIS 6: That those who despise and deride unpretentious and self-abasing people sin very gravely. (4 mins)

HYPOTHESIS 7: That the believer should do what he does with a good, and not with a bad, conscience; for God judges the deeds of each man, not according to appearance, but according to the intention of the doer. (6 mins)

HYPOTHESIS 8: That the conscience is a great gift of God to us and is very beneficial to him who listens to it. (3 mins)

Hypothesis 9: That we should always be attentive and guard ourselves on all sides, since the Enemy assails us from all sides and through every means. (28mins)

HYPOTHESIS 10: That we should examine ourselves, so as to correct our mistakes and increase our good deeds. (6mins)

HYPOTHESIS 11: That for a faithful Christian it is hazardous to transgress even a single commandment, since he has received from God the ability to fulfill them all; and that a small evil is very harmful. (28mins)

HYPOTHESIS 12: That monastics and devout lay people who have received Divine knowledge are subjected to great chastisements even for minor sins. (5mins)

HYPOTHESIS 13: That we must courageously resist listlessness and demonic dejection, and concerning patience. (41 mins)

HYPOTHESIS 14: That the ascetic struggler, even when he is physically ill, should have no desire whatsoever for pleasures or relax his discipline, or place any hope of a cure in medical treatment, but in God, by Whose dispensation illnesses also come to us. (19mins)