Every man is different in the way he is addressed by God because there are no two circumstances that are exactly the same. I found overlapping information in Philokalia as well as Medieval Philosophy having to do with consequences, action, and how God incites punishment. When reading Philokalia, I came across a passage that discussed the garden of Eden and what it contains. The passage reads, “The garden of Eden is the place where all kinds of sweet-scented plants have been planted by God. It is neither entirely incorruptible nor entirely corruptible. Placed between corruption and non- corruption, it is for ever rich in fruit and flowers, both ripe and unripe. The trees and ripe fruit, when they fall, become trans- formed into sweet-scented earth, free from the smell of corruption belonging to trees of this world. This is due to the abundance of sanctifying grace for ever flooding the garden of Eden”(39). This passage explains that basically the Garden of Eden is a mixture of beauty and things that have not reached their full potential. What is shown the most is the beauty, while the plants that are not ripe yet have been held back by God as a way to grow more, or mature more in spirit under God. The unripe plants, or “corrupted” plants show how the Garden of Eden is a holy place signifying the world itself and what God is capable of achieving. In Medieval Philosophy, there is a passage that reads, “God likewise, wanting to make an impression on thick-headed people, made use of such expressions. In so speaking His concern was not for His own glory but for the benefit of His listeners. For to make the point again that he is not given to anger, He said elsewhere, ‘Surely it is not I [whom] they provoke to anger, but themselves'(Jer.7:19)…So when the Psalmist says ‘rebuke me not in thine anger,’ he means ‘do not exact a penalty for my sins, nor punish me for my transgressions'”(Foltz 149). What I gathered from this passage relates to Philokalia in that there will be no punishment for actions other than one being held back from reaching their full potential God will not give somebody a consequence, instead He will give something to the person that will cause them to have to wait and spend more time growing as a person before they can continue on not make the same mistakes again.