A word against the flattering copying off of Nicholas by a German, he was copied about copulation by an Orthodox Christian and a Latin

Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, to his many other saving testaments and commands, in the same image and in them instructs us who believe in Him on the path of every firm and unblemished godly mind, added this, the river: “Give ear to the lying prophets, who come to you in sheep’s skins, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matt. 7, 15). Also, teaching us how we know them and remain unharmed from them, he invites: “By their fruits you will know them” (Matthew 7:20), naming false prophets, false teachers, who are heretics, speaking from their bellies, and not according to the gospel law and theology, and also with exaggerated vanity deceive the hearts of the simple. Their fruits are not precisely their deeds and their words, but also that very depraved teaching hidden under the ink in the depths. According to the Savior, the divine Apostle Paul also speaks about the same things in his second letter to the Corinthians: “But the Sitsevians are lying apostles, converting deceitful workers into apostles of Christ,” and so on (2 Cor. 11:13). This is how I recognize the flattering Nicholas of the Germans, who, even in his last years, was pleased with the pious Russian language, and in every way, trying to deceive them from the Orthodox faith, the fathers devoted to them, who, among others, with their wickedness, made a story about the union of a Rusak and a Latin, trying to show the faith of both, and this confirms that both to speak of Christ, the Son of God and the true God, and to be accomplished by the same baptism in three immersions, and as in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and as in water, and not in another thing, and as one confession of faith and both preach. In the same way, we strive to establish this, as the Latin Church preaches the sacrament of piety in all rights, says, as it was received from the saints themselves by the apostle and the God-inspired father, in the same way and observes the unchangeable theological teachings, that is, the dogmas of the Orthodox faith, and has not changed anything at all. And if, in truth, the Latin Church is wise and governed, as Nicholas the charming sophist asserts, it would be fitting for us to unite with them fraternally, putting aside all debate and quarrels, and love peace and like-mindedness. Because Nicholas is a liar in many, and especially in them he says that the Latin Church observes all the unchangeable things handed down to her from the holy apostles and God-inspired fathers, theological dogmas and sacraments, whose members he will call, come now, with God as an assistant, let us consider and understand with diligence the sophistry of Nicholas’s justification and exposing the gospel true, false being. We do not accept them at all in our thoughts, but having rejected them, as if tempting us from the right and unblest, our faithful fathers, may we not depart from our faith, in which we have learned from the very holy apostles and venerable and God-bearing fathers. But it’s time for me to start competing with him. I’ll start right there and he starts. Hello, about Nikolai! And it is very good and saving that between you and us there is unity and like-mindedness; Apart from this, we cannot have the Savior Christ among us. Bo himself says: “Wherever there are two or three congregations in My name, there I am in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20). But below we can confess the All-Holy Trinity, even if we are not imams, pure and perfect love for each other, as the priest proclaims to us from the divine altar, during the sacred liturgy, who says: “Let us love each other, so that with one mind we confess the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity of one substance and indivisible.” But, oh wise Nicholas! If you really want us to truly unite with you, first of all you yourself will unite with the God-speaking apostles and the seventh Ecumenical Councils gathered in the Holy Dus, including much of the apostolic dogma, I speak about the ever-present origin of the Divine Comforter, the transgressor and appendage in the sacred symbol of the Orthodox faith, saying: “who comes from the Father and the Son, contrary to all together the Eastern God-inspired theologian and the holy apostle himself.” This is wise and teaching, and you do not tremble at the terrible curses of the sacred councils, in which the most blessed bishops of Rome themselves, together with the other four patriarchs, affirmed the Orthodox faith in the Holy Dus. How can you say that the Latin Church diligently observes the Orthodox faith, just as it was received from the beginning by the Apostle and the Holy Fathers? Which apostle or evangelist betrays this? Or which holy fathers, having gathered together, added this in a sacred symbol? Show this in no way; On the contrary, if you find this, you will deny this existence, and those who philosophize this will be anathema. Especially the third Council, whose head was the holy Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria, who fulfilled the theology about the Holy Spirit, and sealed it with the holy Council, which, I do not say, does not order me and you to add anything to the sacred symbol imprinted from him; that in the sacred symbol, which also says with the Holy Council: “If anyone after us dares to say such a thing, let him be anathema, that is, cursed.” What's against these verbiage about Nicholas? Or don’t you believe in this, as if the Holy Council was ill-structured? And even if you don’t have this faith, do I accept that we talk about you differently, as if you were mad? Do you believe, O Nicholas, that by the Holy Spirit, gathered together to bear God, they are lamps and by the Divine Spirit they teach theologians and teach goodness and seal the sacred Symbol of our immaculate Orthodox faith? If you have the faith, give up other Latin disobedience and disobedience, since the Latin Church is ill with you, and confess with all the ancient councils that the All-Holy Spirit essentially comes from the Father alone, just as the Son and the Word, who is co-beginning and co-essential with the Father, taught this in the Holy Gospel, which is from John, said to his disciple: “When the Comforter comes, whom I will send... from the Father, the true Spirit, who comes from the Father,” and so on. (John 15, 26). Accept this secret theology, which came from the very false lips of Christ our God and yours; accept this teaching with all faith and reverence, the kingdom of God is allegorically called, it brings us into the very belly; Accept this secret teaching, just as a child without malice accepts the teachings of his teacher, so that you may be worthy to enter into it. “Unless,” he said, “you will not receive the kingdom of God like children, do not enter into it” (Matthew 18:3). We do not seek anything higher for ourselves, brothers, but let us be satisfied with the Savior Himself and the Ecumenical Councils revealed to us from the Holy Spirit. “There is no,” he said, “a student is higher than his teacher, nor a slave is higher than his master; it is enough,” he said, “for the student to be like his teacher” (Matthew 10:24-25), etc. We from this Master of worship enlighten with parables, and listen to the blessed Apostle Paul, who commands us not to philosophize more than It is appropriate to philosophize, that is, more than those written by the revealed Holy Spirit, but to philosophize, as if to be chaste, that is, to those who recognize the evil of our thoughts, to abide within the charter of humility, so that we may abide within the firmament and inaccessibility of the charter of the pious faith set forth from the holy apostles and holy councils, and further than these we are erected lower, lower we are exalted. You, Latin, are transforming and corrupting inaccurately the confession of the Orthodox faith laid down from them, but also their many sacred church traditions, worthy of being called inaccurately schismatics, but partly heretics, aka criminals of the apostolic and patristic rules and traditions. For the law and the church charter of the pious kings say: a heretic is a heretic and we will execute him, just as heretics are subject to execution, even if he takes even the slightest step away from the Orthodox faith. But you, who advance the great mystery of the Life-Giving and Most Holy Trinity, and preach the two principles of the incomprehensible procession of the All-Holy Spirit, besides all the Eastern God-inspired teachers, also transgress many church statutes and apostolic traditions, and the first and greatest sin of them is to bring unleavened bread to the holy service, I agree wisely to the cursed Apollinaris, I drove away the prosphora and kvass and salt, as if I were forming a soul for the soul, and a mind for the soul, who deprived the accursed Lord of our Jesus Christ, saying that he had become one soulless and insane flesh. By sowing blasphemy, what could be more blasphemous? Even though you are partakers by nature, you bring unleavened bread, like the accursed one, and you are also subject to the same anathema, just as you also do not want it and you preach with your unleavened bread offering. I’ll leave it to you to consider that your other crimes are many and strange, the statutes that you have come up with on your own, besides every law of the church and apostolic tradition: have you not committed the same heretical penances to those guilty of this? How much and how much has it been told to you who are lawless, how will we communicate with you, until you continue in them relentlessly with zeal? There is no righteous message for our souls to communicate to each other. And do not tell us with many insidious tricks, as baptism is the same, faith is the same in Russian and Latin. Hear clearly and understand directly: the heretics, who were also called Navatians by Navat, the former presbyter of Rome, are called Navatians, below about baptism, below about the sacrament of the Orthodox faith, below about some other church law, but precisely the repentance granted by the love of the Savior Christ to a sinner, I deny and do not accept the repentance of those who turn to repentance, even in the persecution of Christ having rejected, for this reason there was one rejection from the entire Council of Orthodox Christians and there were curses. Paul, the divine apostle, writing to Galatians, cries out without hesitation: “If... anyone preaches the gospel to you more than he has received from us, even if there is an angel from heaven preaching the gospel to you, let him be cursed” (Gal. 1:8). They practiced baptism and confession of the Christian faith and the entire church charter and order, but before they had received circumcision and certain other Jewish customs according to the Mosaic tradition, the apostle rejected them, saying: “Be made void of Christ; Do you understand, O Nicholas, since the hedgehog eats diligently about the right faith? He rejected his disciples, Elma heard them as little ones who had deviated from the truth of the Gospel and freedom, saying: “If you are abolished from Christ, you will be justified by the law.” This: “it has been abolished,” which says something else, as if the grace of Christ and sonship had fallen away. You have, inaccurately, corrupted the sacred symbol of the Orthodox faith, but also transgressed many other apostolic and church traditions, attracting us to unite with you with many insidious cunnings and various motley words. The same divine Apostle Paul bequeaths to us the strength to separate ourselves, not from those who teach others, but from every so-called brother, who, according to the apostolic teaching and tradition, does not walk, with such one we can neither speak nor eat. Or is it not Paul who writes to the Corinthians saying: “Now I wrote to you not to be confused; if a certain brother is called a fornicator, or a covetous, or an idolater, ... or a drunkard, or a predator, with such a person below food”; and packs: “You will sweep away the evil one from among you” (1 Cor. 5:11, 13). To this lamp we, Greeks and Russians, Iverians and Bulgarians, and Serbs, and Volokhs and other pagans, repentantly enough, and like children of good-natured obedience, we separate from you Latins, out of divine jealousy and eternal desire life, and not out of the pride of the Pharisees and vain arrogance, like you, slandering us, being this multi-braided and many-witted copying of yours, in which some of your absurd teacher’s stories, unenlightened thoughts of invention will be sustained. How absurd and rejected and disgusting is it for pious ears to say that the divine apostles who were blinded by Luke and Cleopas were going to Emmaus by the satanic action? Where does this reception come from? or some God-inspired paternal interpretation taught you this, as if it were a satanic act, and not a Divine structure that transcends every human mind, having kept their eyes on them, lest they recognize Jesus, just as the eyes of the blessed Mary Magdalene saw Him coming, and not knowing the verb to Him, like to to the helihandler: Lord, if you took Him, tell me where you laid Him. Are you wise about food, Nikolai, as Satan struck it with blindness? Ole of your unpunished mind, more than blasphemous! With a divine look, unknown to us, holding the disciples' eyes, about Nicholas, and not according to a satanic act. Where God's coming and the Master's conversation about Nicholas, from there all satanic actions and intrigues would escape and disappear. Just like this absurd interpretation of yours, you also tell something else that is foreign and unknown to the conciliarities and apostles of the holy Church. Saying that the divine apostles who had assembled had expounded the charter and confession of the Orthodox faith, to one of them I pronounced a certain honor, in which city or country, and when you set it out, or which God-inspired book delivered this to you, you did not explain it to us, being afraid of all sorts of imaginary accusations, hedgehog from pious, nowhere is the written word found among us true believers. This is well known to all true believers everywhere, as the first, like the Holy Council of 318 God-bearing fathers who met in Holy Dus in Nicaea against the evil Arius, created the Word of God who spoke, setting forth the charter of the Orthodox faith, theologizing in brief words the great mystery of the All-Holy and Worshiped Trinity and the vision of the incarnation of God the Word. About the Holy Spirit, he just said: “We also believe in the Holy Spirit.” And after some time, the Doukhobor Macedonian appeared, blaspheming the Holy Spirit, and was created; wisely, the second Ecumenical Council convened out of necessity. 150 God-bearing fathers in Constantine City, under the great Tsar Theodosius, added theology to the sacred symbol about the Holy Dus. The third holy Council, also in Ephesus, under which the holy Cyril Patriarch of Alexandria was its leader, sealed with the most terrible oaths the faith that had been previously set forth by the two Ecumenical Councils, so that no one would dare to implement a single utterance, or add anything to the pre-stated symbol, or lay it down with him 3. We read the Council in the sacred deeds, and we hold it and believe and preach, desiring the heiress to be with the seventh saints of the Council of eternal blessings and blessings, and not with you, criminals, eternal oaths and condemnations. And this is told from you, about Nicholas, below we saw it written in the book of which is more Orthodox, below we heard this from another even before this. Be as you affirm that the holy apostles of the Holy Council of Nicea set forth the charter of the Orthodox faith, why for the sake of you, Nicholas, are you transgressing their sacred theology about the Holy Spirit, and not as they hold the theology? They decided according to your story by Bartholomew the Apostle: we believe in the Holy Spirit, and went no further. Also after them, the sacred Council of Nicaea was expounded in a similar manner to them, adding nothing; The same third Council of Saints, the Father, added in the sacred symbol perfect theology, which is about the Holy Spirit, saying: and in the Holy Spirit the Lord is life-giving, proceeding from the Father, like the only begotten Son of God Jesus Christ himself, theologized in the voice of Saint John the Evangelist. But you, who are the same apostle of the saints, and the holy council of the three, and the Only Begotten himself, ascended higher than the wings of mysterious theology, dared to add to their unblemished theology the verb: “and in the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son,” and here you appear to be a utter lie. By one word, that in the same way the Latin Church received the Apostle from the very saints, and observes the unimplemented sacred symbol of the Orthodox faith, and behold, you are exposed as a liar, having added from yourself and from the Son, having transgressed the apostolic and paternal testaments and oaths, and was subject to the conciliar anathema. Declaring lies to others, preaching two principles of the ever-present and incomprehensible procession of the Holy Spirit, which is blasphemous. If there are two dispensers of the Holy Spirit, the Father and the Son, then there are also two principles of the Divinity of the Holy Paraclete, which is false and contrary to the Gospel and patristic mystical theology. There is one source of the Divinity and the Son and the Holy Spirit; the Father is, according to the graceful God-inspired theologian Dionysius the Areopagite, and according to all the saints, the father. In these ways, a liar is exposed, stop annoying the Russian Orthodox people, saying, not according to the understanding of the truth, to separate yourself from the messages of the Latin, not according to reason, Nicholas, below, according to vain zeal, but according to the obedience of the spoken God-inspired theologian John, who bequeaths us strength and says: everyone transgresses and does not abide in teaching of Christ, “Do not have God; abide in this teaching of Christ, both the Father and the Son” (2 John 1:9). He also quotes the verb: “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home, and do not say to rejoice in him, for if you say to rejoice in him, he is an accomplice with his evil deeds” (2 John 1:9-10). Understand, O Nicholas, the power of the gospel’s speech, and put aside all vain and stubbornness; the heretic speaks of one who transgresses and does not abide in the teachings of Christ, but he also explicitly calls him an atheist. But with Latin verbs, one who transgresses Christ, the teaching about the origin of the Holy Spirit, and adding from himself in the sacred symbol of faith the hedgehog and from the Son, as other Christians are called in Orthodoxy, the theology of the Savior of Christ. transgressor and without fear you say: and in the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son. Mark 4 the unleavened bread offered as a mystical sacrifice according to the heresy Apollinaris, retreat from the destructive Origen heresy, which with purifying fire in walking for many years cleanses the soul with all sorts of sins, and so I send from there; to eternal life. This teaching, inaccurately, leads many to correct their sins by expecting cleansing after death in the purifying fires, but it also corrupts the word about righteous judgment. If all who in the Christian faith have sinned severe sins, having been purified in the fires, pass into endless life, according to Origen and according to you, who stand before the righteous Judge, they will hear the bitter answer: “Depart from Me, cursed, into the outer fire prepared for the devil and his angel,” and so on (Matt. 25, 41). Not because wickedness, like severity and inhumanity and unmercifulness, will be rejected from the righteous Judge: “for if they have sinned lawlessly, they will perish lawlessly” (Rom. 2:12), testifies St. Paul the Apostle. Again, this was revealed from those who spoke on the day of judgment, as if they had justified themselves worthily by the terrible Judge: “Lord, was it not in Your name that we cast out demons, and in Your name we prophesied, and in Your name we did many mighty things?” those who are like them will hear from the righteous Judge: “Depart from Me, workers of iniquity; Amen I say to you: I have never known you again” (Matthew 7:22–23). See how clearly from these gospel speeches it is exposed that there is a lie, like according to Origen and according to you in Latin, a cleansing fire. Even though all Christian sinners were cleansed from their sins in the purifying fires after death, they were in no way aware of the righteous Judge who had created many powers in His name, that is, wondrous miracles, nor the work of lawlessness was named from Him. I would like to expose your other new crimes, how much you have deliberated on your own in the holy sacraments and the priestly rank and other church regulations, and how much you philosophize and create besides the apostolic rules and regulations and the Seven Ecumenical Council; but by the will of these I override them, as they are known to all Orthodox Christians, from whom other ancient writers have exposed them and betrayed them to scripture. Elma, however, also proposed a certain decree that was highly ingenious, indicative of the proper union of all the faithful, and said that for this reason the Savior of all in bread and wine offered His mysterious sacrifice, for bread is made from many grains, and in the same way wine is made from the many grains of a bunch of them. Against this sophisticated wisdom of yours, we answer: like the bread brought to us, that is, according to God, there is a union of Greeks, Russians, Iberians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Volokhs and many other languages - we create from single grains of wheat, that is, from the right apostolic teachings and fatherly rules and traditions - the purest is acceptable to the heavenly Breadmaker who made it and baked extremely sweetly by the immaterial fire of the divine Paraclete. And like you, the Latin bread, that is, according to you, is a combination, not from a single grain of wheat, but from various seeds, I say from barley, millet, rye and oats. Understand and understand the word covered. Do not deceive us with your many cunning words. If Nicholas were to know, because you brought many of the sayings of the Gospels and Apostles in your writings for praise and praise of yours, but for us diarrhea and condemnation, in these the righteous Judge will condemn you especially, since you are contrary to the apostolic rules and patristic traditions, and for the reason that the body of Christ was composed good and pleasing to God, I say, the Catholic Church, split and torn apart by all your strange and absurd new teachings. But even for this reason, the main importance of our answers against the teaching written down on us by you with many insidiousness, being unitive, and even more so, corruption, prevails. Hear to Nicholas and all those like you the priestly account of your pope and the many many teachers and philosophers who are among you, as we obey the Lord our God, commanding: “Unless you are converted and become like children, you cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (Matthew 18:3), and again: unless anyone accepts the kingdom of God, like children, you cannot enter in no, - obeying these two commandments, we keep all the pious secrets and theological dogma of the apostolic and patristic church traditions, the kingdom of God is all together accepted and observed without fail, just as little children receive teachings from their teachers without hesitation, and beyond our weakness we do not torture their mysterious power, obediently bequeathing: Don’t look for a higher one for yourself. For there is only one God, without beginning and without end, the ever-present Holy Trinity, we know and believe, and confess with our hearts and lips, and as from God the Father the Son is born and the Holy Spirit proceeds, and we know and believe. We seek to achieve the image of birth and descent below, but we cannot. This essence is by no means ineffable and incomprehensible to every created nature. Deign then and you will return to the same place from the beginning with us, a right confession of faith and a union pleasing to God, from which evil has fallen away, quickly conquered by the evil spirit of love of glory and self-indulgence. If you do not want to accept this spiritual saving advice brought to you fraternally from us out of love, we will deviate from the apostle and the Ecumenical Council of the Orthodox Faith that was handed down to us from the saints, and we will in no way tolerate agreeing with you, who have gone astray in all your misguided ways. We are the ones who say: “You will go out from among them, and be separated... and not touch uncleanness” (2 Cor. 6:17). Elma is better, a commendable untying of the connection that separates from God. To him be glory forever, amen. Before this word of Maxim the Greek in the manuscripts the following “The Legend of Nicholas the German” is placed. This Nikolai Bulev was in the God-saved city of Moscow for a long time, having washed over thousands in the years, in the days of the pious sovereign, Grand Duke Vasily Ivanovich of All Russia, and from the sovereign he received the great honor of being a doctor for the sake of cunning. And with his insidious plan he himself fashioned the word and filled it with all kinds of deceit, about the union of the Greek and Roman faiths. He praises our Christian faith with the subtlety of his words, but we are separated from them from the Latin heresies, the evil one hid, and wrote nothing from them. Maxim the monk, having taken away his charming copying, armed himself against his wiles with the grace of the Holy Spirit, and wrote this word. You might be interested in: