123. Епископское поученье князьям и всем православным христианам о противоестественных плотских грехах, ротничестве и подражании иноверческим обычаям

Usually placed in Russian Helmsmen of a special category, to which belong, for example, Helmsman Publ. Library XV century No. 80 (F. Dept. II), Chudovskaya No. 167, 1499, Trinity. Laurel. No. 205 and Rumyants. Music No. 238. Published according to the first (l. 314 et seq.), with discrepancies from the last (Wonderful l. 260, Laurel l. 337, Ruman. p. 478). The teaching contains verbatim extracts from the 77th novella of Justinian, which was already part of the original Slavic-Russian Nomocanon, with the inscription: “about the unclean who swear by God’s head and hair, or whatever they are” (see Original Nomokacon by A. Pavlov, p. 52); but there is a big difference between this translation and the passages cited in the teaching (see notes): is it not necessary to conclude from this that the author was dealing directly with the original, i.e. was he Greek? Episcopal teaching to all Christ-loving princes and all faithful Christians and God-loving To all people who exist in the piety of the Christian race, the orthodox faith in the form of an image, in addition to all wickedness, beautifully adorned with every detail, it is shameful and escaping from the vice of everything, as for all of us there is diligence and prayer, and we are entrusted to eat from God and live well, according to the Gospel of God, and from this to find good mercy here in the present, and even more so 3115 there 3116 ever-present. Since God’s love for mankind is for the communion of all and for the salvation of 3117, the one who has sinned through repentance accepts, extends his mercy and the saved system, not even death and destruction to sinners; In the same way, we command everyone to accept the fear of God in their minds and to have His mercy on themselves 3118: it is known that all who love God, walk in His commandments and walk in righteousness, are worthy of mercy and grace. These too are certain things in Christians, as if they bear the Christian name, but they are darkened by the devil and are possessed by his haste, into oaths, and blasphemies, and wickedness, and into bodily uncleanness, and have plunged themselves into bodily uncleanness, and shamelessly create transhuman iniquity upon their very nature, the destruction of the river of Sodom, which also affects the dumb no, they walk 3119 forgetting the fear of heaven and the verbal torment prepared by the unholy, even Satan himself trembles, but they do not feel: hereby we command everyone to take into account the fear of God and the coming judgment, to avoid such uncleanness and blasphemy, and to follow the goodness of those who live, and not those who live for the sake of covetousness and 3120 deeds, according to the righteous judgment of God, the cities 3121 with those living in them will be destroyed 3122 and uprooted. 3123 We teach you this from the holy scriptures, that for the sake of sins [cities] 3124 and those living in them were destroyed to the end, just as those in Sodom and Gomora and the cities around it. That is, even if there is no law and 3125 no Prophet leading 3126 such sins perished, their obedience to destruction 3127 is still smoking: tolma 3128 moreover bearing the name of Christian and having the true mind, those who commit such sins - woe to them! - they won’t accept eternal burning. Isaiah the Prophet says: “They will be immersed in the flames that they kindled for themselves.” There is also an unquenchable fire made with a worm, about which the same Prophet said: “Their worm will not die and their fire will not be quenched.” We do not know about blasphemous 3129 verbs like the river 3130: that they swarm and swear about God, and kiss the cross in droves, to the church, and to the altar, and to the terrible mysteries, setting up the Divinity for their destruction. Yes, because heaven was surprised at this, they do not feel, God-destroyers and criminals, and thus we forbid the union of our court, the priesthood and the kingdom with the verb, the words of the Lord, and not to swear in any way: neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath, and to the head and hair, except: “to her, to her! no, no! If blasphemy against a person cannot be left without vengeance, then he is even more blasphemous against the Divine 3131, putting vengeance on himself with his own lips: “I will give vengeance to me, says the Lord.” 3132 For this reason, we preach to everyone, as long as we are of the Christian race, and 3133 we used to move away from such cruel sins. For sins are fierce: company, slander, oaths, flattery, false obedience, murder, exterminators and annoyances to fathers, scolders and pranksters of teachers, rebels against the church, approaching the mysteries, unworthy of beings, disgusting and dirty teachings of the saved, vessels of the devil, abstinence scoffers, and robbers, covetous, cruel, unmerciful, and other bitter spiritual sins, seducers: where can Satan himself dare? Carnal sins: carnal uncleanness, filthiness, fornication; bodily uncleanness: adultery, fornication in Sodom, in the tribe of brothers, bestial fornication, sexual fornication, drunkards, debauchees 3134, stinginess 3135, and many who defile with corruption and need. 3136 But those who know in themselves, do not correct, do not rebuke 3137 priest-cleaners, overseers, guards, workers of the grapes of God, the region accepts to uproot and plant: it does not heal, and does not correct, does not care, and does not rebel, zealous for the truth according to God; The priesthood always keeps only temporary needs, does not care about the spiritual in order to receive the reward of the eternal life, but rather cares about perishing dreams, and for the sake of the belly it does and says everything, does not salt or lead to salvation, but rather looks and caresses, so as not to fall away from temporary honor. For this reason, everything together is subject to final consumption, as fire consumes all the end: “for you have consumed, so to speak, and the sting of sin will burst forth.” You won’t see or understand both the fire and the bogeyman. Because of those for the sake of sins, disorder, hostility, cowardice, destruction, and air decay, pestilence, disorder 3139, barren land, livestock, fruits, destruction, in themselves - illness and death, and after the death of the doer of this such wickedness - the second death, the fire prepared. And John in Revelation [verbs]: “Some of them are in the lake that burns with fire.” If, according to our broadcasting and 3140 punishment [and] law, some will find themselves in previously spoken sins, they will be unworthy of God’s love for mankind, but let them suffer legal torment for their deeds. 3141 We command the eparchs of the city: flatterers, blasphemers, rotniks, homosexuals, murderers, those who corrupt virgins 3142, by force 3143 - to execute according to the law and to put torment in the last days, not to spare those who do evil before God. 3144 The servant of God should be a righteous judge: if they find such things, let them not hide them, but let them show them, otherwise the city and its citizens will be consumed together with the workers of lawlessness. The verb in the Fourth Kings: “Ahab the king of Israel spared king Ared and Asher, and God said to him by the Prophet: You have delivered a man from the hand of your destroyer: your life for his life, and your people for his people.” And King Saul spared Agag, and the kingdom fell away. And so choosing 3145 many, sentences for the sake of the word, and now 3146 we do not verb. If, according to this information of ours, some people find that they are not the same in such evil, they hide and do not declare, and they, too, will be condemned by the Lord God along with the workers of iniquity. This same eparch, either out of laziness, or because of some other thing pleasing to himself, will not inflict legal vengeance; first, let him be guilty of God’s judgment, and then let him accept our indignation. 3147 The point is, there are some from us who have forgotten the fear of the highest, and with oaths and mouths they cover up the poison of the serpent under their lips with flattery. Behold now, children, how can we not punish this terrible thing? Why not obey, disobey for the sake of the holy commandments? Why do we still feel against the calico sound? Countries take pride in us and blaspheme us; we ourselves 3148 disappear, for the sake of the mood and for the sake of each other's discord: we have destroyed the strong, and the river is the hedgehog of God, we have departed from good and followed all the evil of lawless tongues. Which country has its own laws and fatherland, and does not come from friend to friend, but each one maintains its own custom: we have received the true law from God, we have been defiled by various countries of lawlessness, we have received evil customs from them; Moreover, from those countries we are tormented and wasted; Because of our lust for custom, God will execute us. And we took our understanding from God, so that we advise all good things; in it we advise evil. There is no one to blame for the evil that comes upon us, but only our sin and madness. What [and creature] 3149 stands opposite, afflicting us, crying out to us and bearing a sign of the wrath of God? For now, we, taking from her for the needs of the belly, do not need it, neither for the praise of God for what we have done, nor for the remembrance of future blessings, but 3150 for the praise and service of sin we turn. 3151 For this reason, the existing creature, created for our belly, for comfort, stands opposite to us, chilling: stands 3152 opposite to the opposite; for when it brings down rain and gives food, it also sends out fire: and what for we have for everything 3153; every one is bound by his sin in bonds. For this reason, against the enemy I find a foreigner, their fortress is 3154 - like ashes. 3155 And Ezekiel said: “With blood you eat and cannot restrain your eyes, you have created the temptation of evil, and every one of your friend’s wife is a desecrator 3156 and you want to commune the earth: is this what you do, speech 3157, hoping to hold on to your fatherland 3158, but your life is nasty and adulterous, your wives are defiling and Is the girl smoldering and dragging?” Therefore, there are some who do evil, and it is a shame to write and speak. Lies 3159 and flattery in your mouth, and shaking with drunkenness, and want to be overcome by the enemy? Be cursed by sins 3160 and iniquities: once you have destroyed the freedom above, you will not find the freedom below. Micah says: “Oh, fly to my soul! for the one who fears God perishes from the earth, and there is no one who corrects among men, and each one despises his friend, and their hands prepare for evil: the judges eat, the prince robs and eats, the strong crushes the weak, who stands up, but crushes the whole 3161 and destroys, and whoever says peaceful things to a friend, but thinks evil in their hearts. Oh fierce, fierce! Your vengeance has now come, and their lamentations will come. Do not trust in a friend, nor trust in the elders: for a man’s enemies are his own household.” And Ezekiel said: “Turn to me, and I will turn to you.” And again: “Are not your sins separating between you and me?” The conversion of God and approach to him is to retreat from all evil and deify oneself with good deeds. If anyone imagines that he loves God but transgresses His commandments, it is a lie: by observing the commandments, a lover of God is. Let us therefore leave behind us the evil path and its end of destruction, and let us recognize God’s path, which leads us to heaven. In the aforementioned (see legend) short story by Justinian, the same instruction is read: “Because God’s love for mankind does not want destruction, but conversion and salvation (wants), and the one who has sinned and recovered is accepted by God: we command everyone to accept the fear of God in their minds and to call on his mercy,” etc. (Helmsman of the Trinity-Lavra Library No. 207. l. 275). They want it in the original; corrected by Rum. To Laurel. corrected to the field will be burned. The same is true in the short story: “Some people, possessed by the devil’s haste, plunge themselves into grave impurities, and act against nature itself: and hereby we forbid to accept into the mind the fear of God and the future judgment, and to withdraw from such devilish evil impurities, lest such a series of unclean deeds from God’s righteous wrath arise and the cities with those living in them are destroyed.” and crossed out in Miracle, and it is superfluous. In the original and other lists of the death; in the text according to Rum. then kolmi Rum; then the stake is corrected in Miracle. Opposite this on the field is written in cinnabar: Kissing of the Cross. In the short story: “It is impossible to leave unspeakable blasphemy against a person: more than that, he who blasphemes against the divine deserves to endure torment.” Further in the original there is then, crossed out in Miracle. and not at all located in Rum. In all lists there is or - superfluous. Instead of mori (mora), disorder, in Rum. the sea is unstable. In the novella: “For the sake of sins, there are ironies, cowardice, and destruction... If, according to our law, some will find themselves in the same sins, they will create themselves unworthy of God’s love for mankind, and therefore will suffer torment from the law.” In authentic to the haves; to Rum. property In the novella: “We command the glorious eparch of the royal city, who remains in the spoken evils and unclean deeds, and according to our seven statutes, to support and put torment into the last.” In the novella: “And you, the glorious eparch himself, if he finds some who have sinned, and does not bring vengeance on her, according to our law, the first will be guilty of God’s judgment, and therefore will raise our indignation.” and creature is added in accordance with the further flow of speech in the text. In the original; corrected by Rum. I'm lying to Room. and Miracle. (in the last one it was corrected on the field). In the original there is sin; corrected according to Rum. all – in the sense of “everyone”. impose Rum.; This is how it was corrected in Chud. You might be interested in: