Pseudo-Macarius of Egypt, Fifty Spiritual Homilies, Homily 4, paragraphs 8 - 27 comments on how the choice to be hardened or softened by divine fire is ours

Pseudo-Macarius of Egypt, Fifty Spiritual Homilies, Homily 11 discusses how divine fire is purifying; also says the serpent in the wilderness (Num.21:4 - 8; Jn.3:14 - 15) represents Jesus first healing the wound in his own humanity

Pseudo-Macarius of Egypt, Fifty Spiritual Homilies, Homily 20 explains the fall of Adam; refers to Moses bestowing a partial cure for human sin; but Jesus and the Spirit are the full cure 

Pseudo-Macarius of Egypt, Fifty Spiritual Homilies, Homily 25, paragraph 8 - 9 comments on the theme of divine fire throughout Scripture and how God cleanses and purifies us

Alexander Golitzin, Many Lamps Are Lightened From the One: Paradigms of the Transformational Vision In Macarian Homilies (Academia.edu, Vigiliae Christianae 2001)

Alexander Golitzin, A Testimony to Christianity as Transfiguration: The Macarian Homilies and Orthodox Spirituality (Academia.edu, published as part of S.T. Kimbrough, Orthodox and Wesleyan Spirituality, 2002)

Alexander Golitzin, Temple and Throne of the Divine Glory: "Pseudo-Macarius" and Purity of Heart, Together with Some Remarks on the Limitations and Usefulness of Scholarship (Academia.edu)

Alexander Golitzin, Heavenly Mysteries: Themes from Apocalyptic Literature in the Macarian Homilies and Selected Other Fourth Century Ascetical Writers (Academia.edu, published as part of Robert Daly, Apocalyptic Themes in Early Christianity, 2009)

Dragos Andrei Giulea, The Heavenly Fire Working the Earth of the Heart: Origen, Antony, Pseudo-Macarius, and the Internalization of the Image of Divine Fire (Academia.edu, 2009)

Matt Friedman, A Macarian-Wesleyan Theology of Mission (Academia.edu, published in The Asbury Journal, 2012)

Susan Ramsey, Exploring the Harbor of Rest: The Significance of 'Anapausis' in the Theology of the Pseudo-Macarian Corpus (Academia.edu, 2012)

Susan Ramsey, Pneumatic Cousins: The Holy Spirit in Pseudo-Macarius and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Academia.edu)

Nichifor Tănase, Becoming “All Light, All Face, All Eye”: Central Aspects of Macarius´ Theology (Academia.edu, published as part of International Journal of Orthodox Theology, 2018)

Marcus Plested, Saint Makarios and the Mystagogy of Saint Maximos the Confessor. The Pappas Patristics Institute, Dec 17, 2022. A 31 minute video.