119. 1492 г. декабря 12. Грамота новгородского архиепископа Геннадия соборному духовенству о пасхалии на восьмую тысячу лет и предисловие к самой пасхалии

From the Church Charter of the 16th century, belonging to Moscow. Archive Min. Foreign Case No. 573/1074; l. 537–545. Both the letter and the preface were published, in reverse order, in the “History of Russian. Church" Macarius, vol. VI, pp. 372–383. By the grace of God, humble Gennady, Archbishop of Veliky Novgorod and Pskov, to the archimandrites and honorable abbots, also to the Cathedral of St. Sophia, the archpriest and the brethren, also to the elder of the Semi-Cathedral Ivan, and other elders: the elder of the Ivan Cathedral, priest Yuri Mikhalitsky, and the elder of the Theotokos Cathedral, priest Oksentey, and the headman of the St. Michael's Cathedral, priest Ivan the Bogoroditsky at the gate, and the headman of the Yakovlevsky Cathedral, priest Faust, and the headman of the Vlasievsky Cathedral, priest Gregory Bubanda, and the headman of the Fourties, priest Kornil. That our father Zosima, Metropolitan of All Rus', sent to us his Paschal, writing for twenty years, and ordered us to send it to him, also writing a Paschal, for as many years as possible. And we sent to our father the Metropolitan, writing Paschals for seventy years, drawing out alpha 3052 along the borders; and our father Zosima Metropolitan wrote to us that there is no discord between our Paschal and his Paschal, and he ordered such a Paschal to be sent to us throughout his bishopric, which he sent to me, writing for twenty years: for the first time, dei, such a Paschal has already been sent throughout the metropolis of the Russian land. And I wrote you that Paschal for twenty years that the Metropolitan sent to me; Yes, and that Paschal for seventy years, which you sent 3053 to the Metropolitan in Moscow, I also wrote to you, dividing it: when that one is gone for twenty years, and God deigns the world to still stand, and at the end of our life the years will not pass, otherwise for the sake of this it was put in such a way, before that seventy years prefigures the age of the human belly. About seven the prophet David wrote: “the days of our years are seventy years in them.” Yes, these times have respect for human life, but the age of death does not accept; Alpha also endlessly admires Easter. Yes, not only [before now] 3054 it is appropriate to become, even if the end of the seventy summer begins, to mark the end of the world, just as before in the seven thousandth Easter written, the end of the seventh thousand, the opinion was to be the end of the world: you have lied. By the same token, I blame both of them; but it is proper to remember what Christ himself said: “of that day and of that hour no one knows”; Yes, for this reason it is appropriate to be ready at every hour: we do not know at what hour the world will end; “For as the light of heaven shines in the heavenly places, the coming of the Son of Man will also be present.” Yes, for the sake of the world, death has been set unknown. And since then we have counted the age by a number of seven, and for this reason we have set it for seventy years, forming a seven-fold number, just as Gregory the Theologian spoke about the age, saying: “before, he said, the age is filled with a seven-fold number.” And about this, let’s go ahead, in more detail about the century, of course. If anyone really wants to know the image of the number seven and the honor of the eighth day, which is a week, let him read clearly the word on the new week, on Antipascha, by Gregory the Theologian, and there he will find what he is looking for. We imposed the Paschalia according to custom, for the sake of the coming times, just as the previous Paschalia was taken out of the same alpha, even before the end of the seventh thousand. And what are the holidays written in the metropolitan Paschal: the finding of the head of John the Baptist, and the resurrection of Lazarus, and the Day of St. John the Theologian, and the memory of John the Evangelist 3055: otherwise in the past Paschal, and in our Paschal, there were no holidays for that, before the finding of the head of the Forerunner comes out of the meat-empty, and the Saturday of Lazarus Easter of the Christian date will be revealed, and the rest saints - the Theologian and St. Nicholas, or Evdokia or St. George's Day, or other holidays, the Saints were written about everything at the beginning. And you would have ordered all the priests to copy those Paschals, just as naturally you would have ordered all of Orthodox Christianity to copy them, so that there would be no rebellion for them: since in this inscription our confession of the Orthodox Christian faith was briefly expressed, and from then on the charter and custom were established even to this day among Christians. Yes, for this reason, they wrote the alpha and the alpha with the Saints in the inscription of this Paschal, and in it along the borders they put the whole seven thousand, which is the thousand in which the border ends, and they also put the key of the border in the inscription of the Paschal, where the circles are written for solar and lunar, and for the hands of circulation, and they also put the eighth thousand at the beginning of the border. And the number of the border, in which the eighth thousand is placed, has peace. And this, you understand, is known in the teachings of this alpha, which they put in the inscription of the Paschal, so that it will be reasonable how to derive the Paschal from the alpha. II. The beginning of Easter was proposed for the eighth thousand years 3056 It was commanded by our lord father Zosima, Metropolitan of All Rus', to me Gennady, Archbishop of Veliky Novograd and Pskov, to celebrate the Paschal for the eighth thousand years: the seven thousandth time has passed, and the ordinary Paschal has properly passed, and certain ideas, as if we are ending the seventh thousand, will be the end of the world, as and before, we passed the sixth thousand, people still held the same opinion. But then the seven thousandth time, coming 3057 according to Solomon, was announced: “Give part to the seventh and again to the eighth”; Since this present age is sevenfold, they hoped that the end of the seventh thousand would be the end of the world. The one who copied the “Mirror” and unblessedly imputed this saying, even what was hidden from the Lord will remain untested, even if it were, and bring 3058 into the testimony of the Theologian “when the sinful world is filled with tears, then expect the end.” These saints’ sayings were not contrary to the Lord’s words: “of that day and of that hour no one knows,” but even those words themselves appeared most authentically, having the consent of those who were spoken in the Gospel by the Lord: before the end of the seven-thousandth time, I came 3059, there was no end to the world; and having foretold this for so many years, they are enlightened by the Holy Spirit, but people who are not very experienced approach the unknown. But the prophet Homos also says: “Oh, you who think fiercely about the day of the Lord! “And this is the day of the Lord for you: for this is darkness and not light.” And since we do not know our end, at what hour we will come from this world to this age, and for this reason we have been ordered to be ready at every hour, and not to torture beyond ourselves. Taking away this opinion, the Theologian says 3060: “When the earthly world is filled, then expect the end.” The same applies to the age of Pisa, the age of which is filled with the number of seven, and the eighth day bears the image of the future age. Yes, and about this we will clearly create 3061, as the Paschal was not newly composed quickly, and is about to die, even though God is pleased to accept the end of the world; Since the alpha and the circles of the sun and the moon and the circulation of hands, from which the Leap and Easter comes, this is arranged rotatingly, but there is no end, so that the end of the world will be unknown. And that we found in the Vladyka in the Book of Vasily an alpha for five hundred years and 30 and two, and in it 3062 is written all seven thousand along the borders, which is a thousand in which border died, and that alpha holds the key to the Easter, and the Easter with the alphabet is tightly set, together with the border, and in it are written meat-empty, and holidays, and Christian Easter: and we are from that The alphas brought out Easter ranks for the eighth thousand for ten weeks, for seventy years, and they ordered that alpha to be written word for word, which was the thousand in which the border died, and that the memories were written along the borders. Yes, they put that alpha, and the Saints are simple with the number of seven in the inscription, with that Paschal with the ordinary one together. Yes, for the sake of superfluity, they did not insert anything into the ordinary Paschal, coming for the sake of the times: before the God of peace will always keep to those places, and the ten weeks of Paschal will come out for seventy years, and again from that alpha and forward the ordinary Paschal can be brought out effectively, for as many years as he wants. Yes, we set the key to the border that the alpha will hold, at the beginning of Easter, an ordinary person, and the number of hands and the solar circle and lunar circumambulation, so that it does not fall into oblivion. Yes, for this reason, in the beginning, we wrote two past Easter summers of the seventh thousand, the ninety-ninth and the seven thousandth, as a testimony to this summer of the eighth thousand, and also the key to the border that the alpha will hold, we put in the same two years of the past seventh thousand, in the ninety-ninth and in the seven thousandth, corrections for the sake of those years of the seventy-eighth thousand, and for the sake of opinions for the sake of ordinary people who think that this did not begin with created to be. 3063 And when he wants to take Easter out of alpha for a number of years, he will first take two years past the seventh thousand, and find in the ninety-ninth key to the border (a) again in the seven thousandth key to the border (ѣ); in the same border and the end of the seventh thousand, at the end of the fourth pillar: then there was a leap, and the circle of the sun was 28, and the seventh was in the sky. The same eighth thousand began to ascend to the fifth pillar; at the beginning of that pillar there is a key to the border (and), a circle to the sun 1, a circle to the 1st, and so it will reach the end of the eighth thousand. Yes, that’s why we searched for alpha for the entire eighth thousand years, in which the boundary of 3064 will take place, and we found that the key is placed in the boundary, think in which the end will be the eighth thousand. Yes, we wrote this, dividing ordinary people who hold an opinion about the end of the world; and yes, it is not appropriate to be bad at this, but to wait for the coming of Christ at all times: it is unknown what has been established. And only God deigns the world to still stand, otherwise the time of flight is ready, circles have been set, alpha, and the solar circle and the lunar circle, and the hands of numbers, why know the lunar course, and Christian Easter, and meat-empty, and that’s why all the holidays. Yes, and with this scripture they have stated that the alpha is infinite and can be counted in seven thousand years: before this, in times seven thousand years old, the ordinary Easter was clearly derived from the same alpha, but they did not make clear that the alpha has no end, and even the Paschal can be derived from it as much as one wants. And as the seventh thousand passed away, and the ordinary Easter Sunday was thoroughly exhausted, and someone wrote to someone: “Here is fear, here is sorrow. Like in the crucifixion of Christ this circle came into being, this summer and at the end appeared, in anticipation of your worldwide coming 3065,” otherwise there was a rumor about this among people, not only among the simple, but also among the more advanced, many doubted about this. Yes, for the sake of this, we have proposed this scripture about the alpha and about the hands and about the circles of the sun, which are endlessly circulated, so that no one is carried away by vanity or pride, deceived by the opinion that they should create this out of their own mind, or impute it to be something new; but let there be no such placelessness! This is because from the beginning the essence was created, just as the righteous Enoch wrote about the age, saying: “Before all things had not been, God established the created age and then created all creation, visible and invisible, and according to all this created man in his image, and then God divided the age, for man’s sake, into seasons and years, into months and into days and into hours, and may man understand the change of times and honor the end of his life.” And then the Hellenic sages and astronomers set the dates for the years, each according to the verb he imagined. And when we asked for good faith in Christianity, the Holy Fathers put those Hellenic blasphemers into a fable. And when the disciples ask Christ about the end of the world: when will these things happen? He answered: “It is not yours to understand the times and years that the Father has made his domain.” Yes, create this hidden, not only from times and from years, but also from days and from hours, as it is said: “But no one knows about those days and about that hour, not even the angels, nor even the Son, but only the Father.” The Holy Fathers, moved by the Holy Spirit, set out the alpha according to our Christian law, including the solar circle and the lunar circle, and the hands of the circle, in which the leap is found. Yes, this was done in a rotating manner, without end, until Christ’s second coming, about which Christ Himself declared: “As the light shines in the heavenly places, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.” And again: “Like during the flood, I drank, I drank, I married, I encroached; the flood came and everything was taken away: the coming of the Son of Man will also be here.” Having also captured the speech: “heaven and earth pass by, but my words will not pass away”; Yes, taking away the word, the verb to the disciples: “Behold, I have spoken to you, and again I say to you, I say to everyone, so that no one has a message to tell about their sins,” just as the Apostle says: “In every nation, he who fears 3066 God, doing righteousness, is accepted by them 3067.” And when this was spoken to the non-believers and to others from tongues, whenever anyone wants to seek God with all his heart, with prayers and alms to the poor, should God not send his angel, as he did to Cornelius, to guide him on the path of salvation, in order to bring him to divine baptism: how much more, who in the grace-filled law of Christianity strives to please God with prayer and By giving alms and correcting the Christian law, is it possible to receive the promises of eternal blessings? If anyone thinks otherwise, let it be known to the Jews and the tongues: if anyone is not baptized with water and the Spirit in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, he will not be a partaker of the body of Christ and the blood, and will not receive remission of sins. When Christ gave the new covenant, he took the bread and broke it, giving it to his disciples, saying: “Take and eat, this is my body, which was broken for you for the remission of sins”; Having also received the cup, having given praise to God and the Father, he will give it to his disciples, saying: “Drink of it, all of you, this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins.” And having performed the verbal service at the Last Supper, he called the bread, which he broke, his body, about which, before many years, David the king wrote, saying: “You have finished my body”; but first leave 3068 the Jews, saying: “You do not desire sacrifice and offerings”; Also 3069 present the new sacrifice of Christ, and reject the Jewish sacrifice in the end, saying: “burnt offerings and sin will not be taken into account.” When 3070 Godfather David announced the secret sacrifice of Christ’s confession, he himself had already come, saying: “Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as if you were angry.” Moreover, the Holy Fathers wrote a confession of the Orthodox faith, so that our brethren, Orthodox Christians, would unforgettably hold it: this verse confesses the entire law of our Orthodox faith, in small words confessing from the deity 3071 and humanity 3072; at the beginning he reveals the Eternal Father, saying: “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible”; It was also said about the Son: “and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages, light from light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father, by whom all things were.” And again his carnal gaze forms, saying: “for our sake man and for our salvation came down from heaven and became incarnate from the Holy Spirit, from the Virgin Mary became human.” It was also said about his passion: “and she was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was buried.” The same thing was said about the resurrection of Christ: “and he rose again on the third day according to the scriptures” 3073; but also about the Ascension of the Lord it is said: “he ascended into heaven and sat at the right hand of the Father”; the same about his second coming of the verb: “and again he who comes with glory will judge the living and the dead, whose kingdom will have no end.” Macedonia, the wicked one, belittles the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Fathers confessed him to be consubstantial with the Father and the Son, saying: “And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, true and life-giving, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified”; and when the Holy Spirit vomits through prophetic lips the coming of the Son of God, this is explained in small words, saying: “who spoke the Prophets.” But also the Orthodox sacraments of our faith, we bring bread and wine with water in the church for worldly salvation, for the cleansing of sins, and the only rule of the divine scripture 3074 is supposed to be spoken in the cathedral church; If there is any discrepancy in anyone other than the tradition of the Holy Fathers, let this not be said about the conciliar church, and about this it was said: “into one holy conciliar and apostolic church.” Again, when Christ said: “Unless someone is baptized with water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven,” about this it was said: “I confess one baptism for the remission of sins.” Among the Jews there were Pharisees and Sadducees; Sadducees 3075 For I rejected the resurrection of the dead, and had neither angel nor spirit; The Pharisees both confessed. But according to the Pharisees, the divine scripture testifies to many things, both from the Prophets, and the Apostles, and from the Holy Fathers; Sadducius - not a single one from these. And the heretics, the Sadducees, who held the truth, rejected the truth and followed lies; For this reason, the Holy Fathers put it here: “I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the next century, Amen.” Yes, for this reason, it is appropriate to speak this verse carefully and hold it honestly: just as the Holy Gospel is revered 3076, to stand with fear, and this verse is spoken, it is also appropriate to stand with fear and listen clearly; Before the seven councils of all the holy Fathers, this feat is about the Most Holy Trinity and about the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. At the first council this confession of the Orthodox faith was expounded from much to little, and at the second council of Macedonia the Doukhobor expounded the eruption, and confessed the Holy Spirit to be consubstantial with the Father and the Son, and so in the Trinity there is one God glorified in Orthodox Christianity. I wrote this to our brothers, Orthodox Christianity, and let this confession always be spoken in church, both at the ordination of the saint, and at the baptism of children, and moreover, it is always sung at the Divine Liturgy. But we see some who speak in the church indistinctly about this confession of the Orthodox faith: yes, this is due to foolishness or the fearlessness of God, and it is not possible to have the Lord before your eyes. Many enter the Church of God, not as if they will wash away the filth of sin, but rather seek condemnation for themselves, and instead of standing in fear, bringing prayer to God about their sins and diligently listening to the Divine Scriptures, they practice about everyday conversations, whisper creatively, but also from place to place, transiently, they exercise the brethren in prayer, In this way, he pleases the devil and condemns the brethren, he has his own evil in himself that is not corrected, but he also acts as a Pharisee, he reproaches the brethren (this is the most evil of him), but he also takes up arms against God with blasphemy. Likewise, Luke the Evangelist turns away from those commandments who live in fearlessness, saying: “The Lord said to his disciples: Let you not be deceived; For many will come in my name, saying that I am, and the time is drawing near; You will not go out after them." And again, presenting sorrow, wanting to be in your days, but also raising up for courage, saying: “Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be burdened with gluttony and drunkenness and the sorrows of this life, and that day suddenly come upon you”; for a snare will come upon every living thing on the face of the whole earth. Be vigilant at all times, praying, that you may be worthy to flee from all these who walk and to stand before the Son of Man. Let everyone strive in prayers and in elephants and with generosity to the poor to create God's mercy for himself. In the same way, I offer this to Orthodox Christians, since not everyone knows, the alpha and circles of the sun and the moon, that Paschal emanates from them. May the Lord enlighten their hearts, rejecting all doubt about flying, and striving through repentance to please Christ, awaiting his terrible coming, praying to his most pure Mother, our Lady Theotokos, glorifying Christ our God with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and ever, amen. These two Easter summers past, 6900 ninety-ninth, and 7000th, about them above writings 3077 In the summer of 6999, the key is the border of people, the circle of the sun is 27, the moon is 7, the indict is 9, themeleos is 20, the Nativity of Christ is on Saturday, meat-eating is 6 weeks and 2 days, the Pharisee is n. January 23, meat emptying February 6, vrutseleto 5, 40 martyrs, on Wednesday 4 weeks of fasting, Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Friday 6 weeks of fasting, for Jews chamfer March 27, and Easter for Christians April 3, Holy Great Martyr George on Saturday 3 weeks after the Passover, Petrov meat emptying May 29, Petrov fasting 4 weeks 2 days, Peter on Wednesday. In the summer of 7000, the key to the border is yat, circle to the sun 28, magnifying glass 8, indict 10, femeleos 1, Nativity of Christ a week, meat-eating 9 weeks and a day, Pharisee honor. February 12, meat emptying February 26, vrutseleto 7, 40 martyrs on Friday of the first week of Lent, Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos in week 3 of Lent, legal chamfer on April 15, and for Christians Easter on April 22, Holy Great Martyr George in the week of Bright Week, Petrov meat emptying June 17, Peter's Lent week 4 days, Peter on Friday. The same thing about God began to create in the summer of Easter in the eighth thousand. In the summer of the 7000s, this Paschalia was first derived from the alpha from the mistress from the Book of Vasily, 10 weeks for the 70 years of the eighth thousand, and this same alpha was added in the inscription, from the ordinary Paschalia for the 70 years of the eighth thousand. The end of the writings is expected in the month of December 21. The Greeks called Alpha the famous 532-year Easter period (great indiction), after which the Easter numbers are repeated again in the same order. The name comes from the fact that the word ἄλφα, if we take the numerical value of its letters, contains exactly the number 532. so far from the list, ed. Makariy. See note at end of previous no. From here the text is compared with the list found in the Archival Peacemaking Circle of the 16th century, No. 1214/690, fol. 69–79. In the main list it comes; corrected according to another list. In the main list come; corrected according to another list. In the main list came; corrected according to other list. In the main list will do: corrected for another list. The words: thinking... to be, placed in the top margin and cut off during binding, are taken from another list. border from another list. In the main list: corrected according to another list. On the main list for those who are afraid; in another, be afraid. also added to another list. humanity is another list. according to the scriptures of another list. There is unity in the main list; corrected according to other list. Sadducees are not on the other list. Basically sp. I honor; corrected according to other sp. From here to the end - from the Peacemaking Circle. You might be interested in: