Commenting on the deep spiritual hunger of the Greek - speaking people during that time, a Greek clergyman made the following statement regarding a later revision of the Maximus translation: “The Greeks received this Holy Bible, along with the others, with love and with craving. And they read it.
याचा व्हायचा तोच परिणाम झाला; त्याच्या विरोधकांनी रशियात त्याला अटक करवली आणि सायबेरियाला बंदिवासात पाठवले जेथे १७३५ साली तो मरण पावला.