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We must also have fellowship with those who, as if from a dream, having risen to the feat, when it had not yet opened, but was only preparing to attract them, brought upon themselves a temptation similar to a battle at sea and many storms, and most of all, they burned the coal of sinners more intensely on their brethren. For such people begin to do this in the name of Christ, although they do not heed the words in which He instructs us to pray, that we may not enter into temptation (Matthew 26:41), and again in prayer say to the Father: and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one (Luke 11:4). Perhaps they do not know how our Master and Teacher often avoided those who wanted to slander Him, and how sometimes for their sake He did not go out openly, and when the time of His suffering approached, He did not betray Himself, but waited until they came against Him with weapons and swords, and then He said to them: For did you go out against the thief with weapons and swords (Mark. 14:48)? They, says the evangelist, handed Him over to Pilate. In His likeness, those who flow to His side suffered, remembering His divine words, in which He, strengthening us, speaks about persecution: take heed to yourselves, for you will be betrayed to the hosts, and at their assemblies they will beat you. They will betray, he says, and not betray yourselves: and before rulers and kings you will be known for My name’s sake (Matthew 10:17, 18), and not betray yourselves. For He wants us to move from place to place, being persecuted for His name’s sake, just as we again hear Him saying: Whenever you are persecuted in this city, flee to another (Matthew 10:23): since He does not want us to approach the shield-bearers and spear-bearers of the devil, lest we become the cause of many deaths for them, like would force them to greater bitterness and to commit deadly deeds: but that we wait and pay attention to ourselves, watch and pray, so that we do not enter into temptation. So Stephen, the first in His footsteps to suffer torment, was taken by the lawless in Jerusalem, brought to the assembly, and stoned for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, glorified by praying and saying: Lord, do not put this sin on them (Acts 7:60). So Jacob was taken by Herod, the second was beheaded with a sword. Thus, Peter, chosen from the apostles, was taken many times, thrown into prison, abused, and finally nailed to the cross in Rome. And the most praised Paul, after having been betrayed many times, was in poverty even to the point of death, struggled a lot and boasted of many persecutions and sorrows, and in the same city he was beheaded with the sword. And he, boasting of his sufferings, concluded that in Damascus in a koshnik he was hung on the wall overnight, and escaped the hands of those who sought to take him (2 Cor. 11:82). For their first object was to preach the gospel and teach the word of God, by which they confirmed the brethren to continue in the faith, they also said this, that through many tribulations it is fitting for us to enter into the Kingdom of God (Acts 14:22): for they sought not their own benefit, but many, that they might be saved. And much could be said about this for such people, let it be done with reason: but, as the apostle says, I will not have enough time to tell it (Heb. 11:32). (Ap. 62; Ankyr. 3, 5; Petra Alex. 8; Gregory of Nyssk. 2). You might be interested in: