Дополнение к письмам св. Иоанна Златоуста

I. Chrysostom to Queen Evdokia God, being the creator of all nature, is essentially above all power and dominion, and all men are equal, although one seems to have superiority over another. And (He) gave you the royal scepter, not so that you would consider yourself superior to others, but so that you would show equality before the law and justice to everyone. It is not fame, wealth and worldly eminence that will help us on the terrible day of judgment, but only the fulfillment of the commandments, combined with the preservation of correct dogmas. Do not forget about this yourself and do not drive out the fear of God from your soul, knowing well that the breath of everyone is in His power; He adds years of life to one, and shortens the life of another, according to His will: “I,” He says, “kill and I give life, I smite and I heal, and no one will deliver out of My hand” (ti_s o twn emwn xeirwn e_ksairoúmeno_s) 166 (Deut. 32:39). “It is terrible to fall into the hands of the living God!” (Heb 10:31). Earth and ashes, we are all people, color, grass and dust, shadow, smoke and sleep, and we live without living. From the time that what was said: “you are dust and to dust you will return” (Gen. 3:19) entered into our entire nature, we have been completely clothed in mortality and corruption, and we have all already died, even if one were dying today and another tomorrow. As those who came from the earth, to the earth, after a short time, we will return, kings and citizens, superiors and subordinates. In fact, look at those who reigned before us, and compare what they were and what they have now become. You will see how those who did good live, blissfully even after death, and on the day of retribution they will emerge into the resurrection of life, while those who did evil here are always showered with curses and curses, and will rise in the resurrection not of life, but of condemnation. Therefore, let your God-loving soul imitate those who have remained constant in the faith, who have followed the good path of the commandments, and return the vineyard to the poor wife of Theognostus and her children; The grief that befell them is enough for them: let their misfortunes not increase and their misfortune not increase even more. And I beg you, quickly ease the sorrow and misfortune that burdens them, remembering the Savior, who commands us in the Gospel so that the sun does not set on our anger (Eph 4:26), and again turns to that rich man with the words: “You fool! this night your soul will be taken from you; who will get what you have prepared? ( Luke 12:20 ) “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? or what ransom will a man give for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26) Will the sweetness of the vine, or the sweetness of the figs, or the fat of the oil, or the abundance of wealth and the glory of power, go down with us to hell? Doesn't all human endeavor end in decay? Leaving everything, are we not leaving here naked and defenseless? Keeping all this in mind, try to return the vineyard so that it will be good for you on the day of judgment. It is characteristic of piety to confess that Christ, endued with death, is perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the one only begotten Son, not divided into two sons, bearing, however, not the fused properties of two inseparable natures, not one and the other - let it not be - but one and the same Lord Jesus God the Word, clothed with flesh and, moreover, flesh not soulless and not unreasonable, as the wicked Apollinaris said. If it seems impossible to some that someone should consist of two, and at the same time be preserved and crucified, and one of them be subjected to disgrace, then I will try to show this with examples from human affairs. The royal scarlet was a wave; the snail's blood combined with the latter gave it a crimson color. When it was spun and woven, and it was made into cloth, obviously the wave, and not the dye, was processed: the wave can be likened to a person, the crimson dye - God the Word, Who was united (with man) during suffering and on the cross, but was not subjected to suffering at all. Or: let the tree contain a ray of sunshine; when it is cut down, we see that the blow of the ax is primarily directed against the ray in it, and the ray apparently receives the first blow before the tree is cut down. Just as the light that is there is not cut down or dissected, so the deity could not be separated, could not be subject to dispersion and suffering, but the flesh fell under suffering, could be subject to dissection and suffering, like a tree there. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” Instead, to the Vatican. and other Greek lists with which the glory is consistent. The Bible reads: ouk estin o_s e_kseleitai ek twn xeirwn mou “and there is nothing that I will tear away from my hand.” You might be interested in: