3. Около 1160 г. Грамота константинопольского патриapxa Луки Хрисоверга к великому князю владимирскому Андрею Боголюбскому

It is known in two editions: a short one, which has all the signs of authenticity, and a lengthy one, with various additions to the content and updates to the language. The only, unfortunately, incomplete list of the first was opened and published by the Reverend. Macarius in East. Russian Churches, vol. III, approx. 33, p. 251; ed. I. Lists of the second edition are usually placed in the so-called. Nikon Chronicle. This edition represents the first half of the letter according to the same list that the author East used. Russian Church (precisely - in the collection of the 17th century Cyril-Belozersky Monastery, now St. Petersburg Theological Academy, according to the new catalog No. 1270, l. 219-221), the second - according to the Nikon Chronicle ed. Archaeographer. Commission (Pol. Collection of Chronicles, vol. IX. pp. 220–229). The chronicle text is printed in a special font; its variants for the first half of the letter are indicated only where it was necessary to clarify the meaning or correct obvious errors in the list of the senior editors. Certificate of the Great Patriarch Luke to Prince 542 Andrei Rostovsky 543 Bogolyubsky 544 Beloved in the Lord, spiritual son, most noble prince of Rostov and Suzdal. The letter of your nobility was quickly brought to our humility by your ambassador 545, and was quickly read in the cathedral. Having seen on it, piety in your land is expanded by your reverence 546, as you have created many houses of worship for God in many places, your good reverence is all praised, and your right faith is ready for God. And not only by the letter of your nobility is this known, but also from that very 547 thy bishop: much and this good thing about your nobility 548 testifies before our humility and the pre-divine council and before our sovereign and holy king. 549 Your scripture tells us that you built the city of Volodymer from its foundations as a great man with many things, and in it you created many churches; You don’t want him to be under the truth of the bishoprics of Rostov and Suzdal, but to renew it as a metropolis and install from us a non-metropolitan, who is there with your nobility Theodore. Yes, because of your city [and] the holy churches in it 551, which you have erected for the glory of God, but he will reward your nobility with that multiply; But to take away such a city from the truth, the bishops of Rostov and Suzdal and to be its metropolis, is not powerful. Let your nobility know: because, as we hear, there is no other country in any region 552 such a city: it is not new that it came to love and would now be attached to your reign, but the same land and region exist, in it your great-grandfathers were, and you yourself possess it now, in it there has been one bishopric for a long time and one bishop in all of that land, we establish from time to time the sacred metropolitan of all Rus', even 553 there are saints and great churches from us that we establish and send there. But we cannot do this without actually asking [and] dealing 554 with divine and sacred rules. The rules of the holy Apostles and Divine Fathers each metropolitan and bishopric commanded to keep their justifications intact and inviolable 555, and no one from the saints can transgress the divine and sacred rules unless they want to be strange from God. Your sent letters are also a mistake, and I blame them 556 for incriminating your God-loving bishop. And before 557 I learned from both the holy metropolitan by letter [and] the bishop, and from the very ambassador of our sovereign and holy king, and from [t] 558 many others, such accusations against your bishop were rumored many times in your cathedral there and before the Grand Duke of All Rus', who came about this by a certain man of your nobility, [and] 559 a weak woman appeared, as if to harm the bishop 560, and this bishop was cleared by his council: and it is inappropriate for us to put him in order, even if we were tortured there; as if the sacred rules do not command us to do this: they also command every bishop to be judged by his council. 561 But still the bishop, relying on his truth, prayed earnestly for us to torture us again, so we listened to the prayer 562, and read the letter sent to him by your honor. And since he was justified against his guilt, he responded more strongly according to the rules, but he was justified by us, and he was brought into his service with us, and he served with us. And this is also sent to your nobility, as from God himself, by our humility [and] 563 by the divine and sacred great council, and we know that you will not want to oppose the judgment of all the saint and our humility. And simply: if you want to have a part with God, who mixed the heavenly and the earthly with his descent to us, and the blessings of the great cathedral churches and the prayers of all who have gathered here, the saint and our humility, the spiritual father to the son 564, put it from your heart to everyone who has a complaint and yes in your soul against your God-loving bishop; accept him with joy, with all calmness and love, as by God’s grace he is worthy of being a bishop, as he is venerable in words, and luminous in virtue, and adorned with meaning, and knows the right to shepherd and govern the flock entrusted to him by God. And if you no longer have such a shepherd, then do not ask for anything else, but have him as a saint, and a father, and a teacher, and a shepherd. And receive him again into your land, so that God’s flock may shepherd him, and he may not forget 566 if your nobility were to be in that sin. Let him build his church, as the grace of the Holy Spirit gives him; Behold, it pleases both God and men. If your nobility desperately wants to live in the city you created, and the bishop in it begins to want to be with you, may this God-loving bishop of yours be with you. There is no harm in this because there is such a city under his region. If again, as if you are not the imam of the faith, God forbid, you will be, after his reign, the holy metropolitan of all Rus' and his bishops and our perfect affirmation, and you will not obey him, as befits, you will not begin to obey his teaching and punishment, but you will also begin to persecute this God-given saint and teacher, obeying other teachings through the law, and Be aware, blessed son, that if you fill the whole world with the church, and you will reward the cities 567 more than the number, you will persecute the bishop, the head of the church and people, then not the church, then the stable, and not a single reward and salvation will be 568. It is known that we know about your pious bishop, as we have learned, not only that we are persecuted and dishonored, but for the sake of a certain Theodore, the sister bishop of Manuinlev, who lost his church; I went there and taught him the opposite to the bishop through the commands of the holy Apostles and Holy Fathers to eat meat on Wednesday and on Friday, if the feast of the Lord or the memory of a special saint happens, also on all holy Pentecost on Wednesday and on Friday, and many other rude and senseless creative and frequent things; The life of the wifeless and pure living, and the Lord for the sake of those who monk, and the wisdom of those who study the Lord are indignant and reproachful. In truth, this complete sense has fallen away and the mind has been destroyed; I have no understanding, nor have I learned the truth about the Lord, wisdom and salvation. To see that Sophia is the wisdom of God, there is purity of unspoken virginity, and the wisdom of the humble and saved is true; has bo over the head of Christ. Chapter 569 Wisdom The Son is the Word of God, who spread out into the heavens and descended into the most pure Virgin Mary. And so, as much as they love virginity, they will be like the most pure Mother of God: for this most pure virgin gave birth to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God; But to the one who loves virginity, they give birth to words that are wise and practical; they teach foolish and senseless words. Love this purity, the great Forerunner of the Baptist of Christ, and show the charter of virginity, a cruel and wise life in God; The great Ivan the Theologian loved this purity, and was honored to recline on the Lord’s breast, and become a disciple beloved of Christ God. And the slaughter of the girl’s face is fiery; Fire is a deity, burning bodily passions and enlightening the pure soul: imat and torki 570, like angels; a life without women, pure, with angels is equal (torotsi is the chamber of the Holy Spirit); on the head he has a royal crown, as if humble wisdom reigns over passions; the rank, the girdle on the loins - the image of eldership, and sanctity, and authority; holding a sacred scepter in her hand - she has the rank of ruler and hierarch; on the wing of an eagle, on fire, there are lofty prophecies, which the mind soon reveals (the eagle is a very clear bird; when it sees a fowler, it flies higher and the earth is inconvenient: in the same way, for those who love virginity and wisdom, inconvenience of being caught comes from the devil's catcher); in the shuyets there is a scroll written, in it there are unknown and hidden secrets written, even if there are faithful scriptures it is appropriate to know and read, and to defend from other people’s and illegal squabbles; the garment of light reveals the affirmed seven pillars - the family of the Spirit of gifts; the nose is established on stone; For this reason, says the Lord, I will build my church on rock, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it, and I will give you the key of the kingdom of heaven, and if you bind it on earth, it will be bound in heaven, and if you loose it from earth, it will be loosed in heaven. - For many reasons, it is most honorable to have virginity; For Christ do not harm the seal of virginity; He was born of a Virgin, and may He honor virginity. There is a higher marriage and a much more honest virginity; Since the angels above are men and heaven is far from earth, so much so that the one above who is not married is the one who is married: virginity is angelic life. The Lord said in His Gospel according to Luke: The sons of this age marry and commit violence, but the age that has been granted to him to obtain the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor commit violence, nor die, for anyone can: for they are equal to angels and the sons of God. And in Matthew he says: On the resurrection they neither marry nor commit violence, but as the angels of God are in heaven. About this, John Chrysostom says: “And before the resurrection we will show you spiritual armies; the face of an angel, like Christ’s flesh crucified with passions and lusts, despising the fleeting, holding on to the spiritual, these luminaries of the universe, the angelic face. When the sun rises, much earlier than the sun's rise, having risen from its bed in the fear of the Lord, cheerful, sober, disturbed by the sadness of life and vanity, not by the darkening of the corruptible and fleeting, not by earthly and vain labors, not by sorrow and the desire for real life, nor anything else from such that chills them, but like angels abiding heaven. Having risen from the bed, they are bright and cheerful, and the face is one with a bright conscience, in agreement, everyone, as if from one mouth, sings songs to God, honoring him and repaying grace to him for everyone, both special and general, good deeds, from where 571 Adam is seen to be left behind. Let us ask you: how far is this face from the angels who sing on earth and say: glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men? And their clothes are worthy of courage; not because the weakened and broken are adorned, like the garments that drag, but according to the divine angels Elijah and Elisha and John, according to the apostle, the vestments they built, with the hair of goats, with the hair of cows, and with the skin of the skin, even as this was adorned in ancient times, and they sing songs, and they bow their knees and pray to the glorified God for things that some would not even dream of soon coming; They ask for nothing in the present, namely, forgiveness for sin, and with boldness to become a terrible judge, when the only begotten Son of God comes to judge the living and the dead, and not a single person will hear that terrible voice: we do not know you, go away from me, cursed into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels, and even though with a clear conscience and many corrections it is difficult, and to live a cruel and deplorable life in this vain and charming age, and to cross the fierce abyss with good swimming; these, as if they had erected tabernacles in heaven, dwelling far from the evil ones, militantly against the devil, as if jubilantly, they defend him. Why don’t we spontaneously come to such bliss, don’t we come to these angels, don’t we cohabit with these angels, don’t we accept clean garments and be renewed by this marriage, don’t we think about the marriage of our call, God’s marriage, don’t we heed that it is appropriate to enter into the palace of the called soul through good deeds, the lordship of life? Let us therefore go to these tabernacles, and let us become comfortable with our deeds; In no way are their stays worse than heaven; for the angels descend to them, and the angelic Master himself. Even if you came to Abraham, a husband, having a wife and raising children, you saw that you were already hospitable; When many people are freed and despise flesh in the flesh, many more remain here and rejoice with the rejoicing that is due to them.” Blessed Chrysostom and other saints agree with this, as the life of the wifeless, purely living people is amazing; For virginity is the life of angels, with the angels it composes those who love it. In the same way we teach and charge your nobility and piety to be observed from the false prophets who come in sheep's clothing, and not to believe every spirit, but to submit to the Apostle who says: brothers, submit yourselves to your elders and obey; For you are vigilant about your souls, for you want to repay the word on the day of judgment. Submit yourselves, beloved spiritual son of the Lord, to your God-loving bishop, for if the Lord’s feast of the Nativity of Christ and the Epiphany happens on Wednesday or Friday, the bishop of the world allows the worldly to eat meat and everything, but for others milk, and butter, and cheese, and eggs; on the Nativity of the Most Pure Theotokos, and on the Presentation, and on the Dormition, and on the Transfiguration of Christ on Wednesday and Friday, he allows monks and laymen to buy wood oil, and vegetables, and fish, and wine; on the Annunciation until Palm Week, which day, if it happens, allows for oil, and vegetables, and wine; on Holy Week until Great Friday - for oil and wine, and on Great Friday - for wine. The two feasts of the Baptist, and the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and the beloved John the Theologian, and these other special saints, if it happens on Wednesday or Friday, if the bishop blesses and commands you to eat wood oil, and vegetables, and fish, and wine, do this; for the Exaltation of the Honest Cross - wood oil and wine; in the two-ten days from the Nativity of Christ to Baptism, and the week of the Publican and the Pharisee, and the week of the raw food, and the week of the bright, and the week of Trinity Day, from the bright week even to the Pentecost on Wednesdays and Fridays we do not observe fasting until the ninth hour; but even if we reject the food of cheese, and butter, and meat, we are ashamed of the apostolic rule, but we accept wood and other oils, this and fish, even in these days, even if we create the memory of the Lord’s crucifixion, we sing the troparia befitting the crucifixion; but we will also sing on these Sundays 572, just as we will mix in touching troparia on other days: and if the Lord’s feasts are on Wednesday and Friday, or of some special saint, and until the very feast, ask your head who is your bishop, and whatever he says, do it, believing that the Lord God speaks through the mouth of your bishop; If he does not command, then fast. There is no one of all people: whether a saint, or a presbyter, or an angel, or an angel, or an angel from heaven, has such power to bind and decide whether there is only one God-loving bishop of yours, the Lord God has laid him as the head of all your land and for you. Yes, from now on, keep yourself from the teachings of evil, flattering and sneaky people; For the same reason, Theodore cast him away from himself and forced him to go to his bishop: if he turns and repents, grace to God; If he still learns, while staying there, to confuse the church and say things, and bring reproaches and annoyance on the bishop, creating the opposite of the sacred and divine rules, the sacred and divine great council with our humility has excommunicated him. We instruct this by the command and authority of the Holy Spirit and by the charter and word of the great Archpriest of our Savior Jesus Christ, and if he has not yet corrected himself by doing such things, deceiving people, we are by no means leading him into the cutting off of the Holy Church and into the non-communion of all that is holy, according to the twenty-eighth holy commandment of the Apostle, not only that, but also the same thinkers and followers and all his fellow-partakers listened to his unlawful teachings. The whole sacred and divine great council kisses you with our humility, our most noble spiritual son, who is beyond repentance, as your mentors work in you, teaching and punishing you in the Lord, honor and honor you; Most of all, in love, observe the punishments of the testament, which you received from us and the Lord, as if for the sake of God's love and ours for the sake of punishment and blessing, you fulfilled everything about your bishop, wrote a fatherly chastening letter, so that whoever honors the saint, honors Christ: for he has the image of Christ and sits in the seat of Christ; Don’t be lazy to listen to and honor such people, and you will enjoy and become more glorified in both present and future good things. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Father and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with your nobility, amen. Added: and Suzdal. Added: to the son of Yuri Dolgoruky, grandson Vladimir, about Nester, Bishop of Rostov and Suzdal. Add. Yakov Stanislavich. In authentic follows further and - superfluous. The usual title of Byzantine emperors: κραταιὸς καὶ α҆γιος ήμῶν βασιλεύς. In the original, there was obviously a relative pronoun for wives. kind (ἐνἦ), consistent with πόλις. yes, about your city and about the holy church. ask and argue Letop. IV all. 12; Antiochus. 9; Carthage. 64, 67. I all personal right 5; Chalcis. 17; Carthage. 32, etc. In the Chronicle: “but now the bishop, hoping for his truth, relentlessly, with great prayer and tears, grieved us, so that we may test the knowledge of him by the sacred and divine council; he was exhausted by grief and sadness, having listened to his prayers and tears.” You can read: spiritual father and son. – In the Chronicle it’s simple: spiritual son. It’s not even there in L and shouldn’t be. It should be read: let him not go astray (a flock without a shepherd), as in L. In the original it comes further and - superfluous. 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