Богатый
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What does the rich man say? Soul! You have a lot of goods laid up for many years: rest, eat, drink, be merry daily (Luke 12:19). What madness! If you had the soul of a pig, what else would you please it with besides this? You are so bestial, so ignorant of the blessings of the soul, that you offer the soul fleshly food! What the womb receives, you assign to the soul. If there is virtue in the soul, if it is filled with good deeds, if it is close to God, then it has a lot of goodness, and let it rejoice in wonderful spiritual joy. But since you think about earthly things - your belly is God (Phil. 3:19), you have become all carnal, enslaved to passions, then listen to the name that is fitting for you, which was given to you not by any of the people, but by the Lord Himself: foolish! this night your soul will be taken from you; who will get what you have prepared? (Luke 12:20). Such ridicule of recklessness is more painful than eternal punishment! (1)
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