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Exaltation (Elevation) of the Precious Cross

A word of praise to the holy apostles Peter and Paul, in the same reproof against the Latin three great heresies

Слово похвальное к святым апостолом Петру и Павлу, в том же обличения и на латинския три большия ереси
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Sing, soul! The Divine Apostle Peter and Paul, in others the supreme and first-throne, worthy stars of the Church of Christ, who from the vile deception of idols and the service of demons, to piety and truth to the light of the tongues, instructing the animalistic radiance of divine teachings. Sing to your true strength! Give in to those worthy of singing with your highest mind, and bring the song to them, drawing from the saving source of divine Israel; of the divine roots of these branches, and the lives and words of divine lordship have risen most gracefully to the glory of it, on them, like on a horse, God incarnate, the Word, mentally poisoned, stirred up many vile waters, that is, the mystery of vile demons, which had previously covered the whole earth with deep darkness the godly idol, and the land, which was previously fruitful, was also transformed into gold, through the malice of its inhabitants, making these wise men divine, I showed packs of the most fragrant fruits to the sweetest joy of my Lord, and was previously empty and did not partake of the moisture, with the divine streams of ever-flowing this source, showing it to the abundant and poured streams of animal waters. These are the essence, from the Divine fire of the Paraclete, lightning flashed and like arrows were emitted, and with the sweetest light of teaching and miracles, burning fire drove away all darkness from the earth with fables of false words invented by demons, and the three-starring of the one God-Superior, the honest sermon in the thoughts of the faithful, was shed and observed ever since with the help of words, mental and abundant, the infusion of the Holy Spirit, the mystery of the source of the filling of living waters, and the foundations of the earth, which were revealed, that is, the divinity of the ruler of the faithful, like all-night prayers and spiritual infusions, the foundations of the earth appeared, and to the divine understandings, the vegetation of vegetation was shown with skill. These are the words spoken mentally by the wise psalmist of God, telling the heavens the glory, like the brilliance of divine teachings and lightning above the mind of miracles, more beautifully adorned, that heavenly star appeared to all creation, their god-huge broadcast roared the entire sunflower, like divine trumpets, the lofty preaching of theology, surpassing the mind and words of everyone, and before sunny thoughts, in the likeness of cattle nailed to the earth, not commendably, uplifting, admonishing negligence and all-heartedly all together with the smoldering red earthly ones, with all the thoughts of desiring the only eternal ones, in heaven always having their own thoughts, and striving to be within the Divine glory, God-pleasing lives and words of morals, diligence is equal to those who create both, does not use the other except the other, but there is laughter and swearing before those who think well, just as the step is not red and unsteady, it happens with one foot, and the face is also not red-shaped, with one eye poorly illuminated. And even though the God-loving life has been dissolved from both, and goodness has reached the end of the general limit, which is death, it has perfectly shown that there is a sheltered person of Christ, who truly desired with all his soul not this decaying, but ever-enduring life; for the nobility of the tree and the fruit it is good to torture, just as this one is tearing off, growing thinner, lower than every Lord, simply speaking Him, but doing, speaking, with the warm zeal of the soul, the will of the Father, who is in heaven, to bring him into the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 7:21). Thus, having entered into marriages with thin clothes, that is, not bothering to acquire clothes worn more splendidly from faithful deeds to the bright bathhouse, he commanded from among the blessed feasts 1 to be taken into the unquenchable fire, not having been cleansed, as the whore heresy prophesies, and then he will partake of the divine feast, but may it be burned in it for endless ages. In the same way, those who were adorned with the kindness of virginity, but did not receive oil in their vessels, that is, with mercy, to the poor, who did not enlighten the kindness of their virginity, shut up, alas! the groom's door, and as soon as they approach it, without first purifying themselves with cleansing fire, the Divine answer does not reproach them, below commands them: go, first be cleansed by the flame of fire, and enter into My palace, but the hedgehog, we do not know you, sends them far away. Alas and alas! Even if the divine and supernatural praise of virginity is sent far away to the mysterious bride-to-be, for not being adorned with the reported oil, then the oil and oil of alms are given to the poor, and also to robbery and lawless usury, by witchcraft and murder and various vile deeds, corrupted throughout his entire life, as in the divine Will they enter the palace without bothering to create the fruits of repentance worthy of their sins before leaving? This is the present age, as the divine preacher says, but the crown is the future. The distinguishing 2 end of the poor and the rich man who enjoyed it is revealed in this demonstration, and the soul of the dead has each reached its place, such as Gehenna, and the bowels of Abraham; and even though in the middle of it a great abyss has been established, preventing them from striving for each other, the same patriarch, deliberately reproaching those who have enjoyed it, and not chilling it with the short-lived hopes of the purifying fire, clearly says that in this life, like in a certain stage, it is prescribed for those who strive to clear away spiritual sins, with all sorts of pleasing God's deeds, and the ultimate patience of sorrowful souls, voluntary and involuntary. This judge spoke with mysterious words. Let us listen to Him: let us retreat from the heretical whores, by the divine voice, which on the same day brings the villain into paradise, in addition to the purification of the purifying fire, we teach that we will open the whores of others to ourselves; With the sighs of labor and drops of tears, before the triumph of life has even broken down, we have washed away our sins, as we teach: wash your bed and bed every night; at that terrible hour of the exodus, speech, there is no such thing as God’s remembrance, below there is one who will confess to him in hell. “Food,” he said, “work miracles for the dead; ... food, who will tell your mercy in the grave and your truth in destruction? Food will your miracles be known in the dark and your truth in the forgotten land?” (Ps. 87:11–13). The psalmody manifests itself most clearly in all of these things: through compassion and righteousness and miracles and the truth of God, those who have sinned about them will appear, commendably showing repentance before their departure from now on. “For the kingdom of heaven is to be eaten and the needy to be despoiled” (Matt. 11, 12), as we hear, and not being satisfied with all the sweetest food and vile and cold carnal lusts, even covering up our own malice with a cleansing flame, before judgment, cleansing ourselves from now on. Sitsa will appear in vain, ending the whole feat of the saving word, that is, the Gospel dogmas and teachings, revealing the Judge with unbearable fire, breathing on those who did not live according to His commandments, and in unquenchable fire condemning those who have not had mercy, the wretched, and not honoring them with the glory of the Divine, purified by a temporary fire before judgment, and more than all, worthy of surprise and fear, those who performed miracles, and drove away the evil spirits from people, and prophesied by His Divine calling, with rebuke, repudiating the Divine judgment of theirs, having come to know them, testifying, having exhausted spiritual grace in the incongruous lusts of their souls, having never tried to glorify the Lord in the lands of their lands, as befitting, will also appear in vain. But be merciful to me, O King and God and Master of all, by embracing yourself as a human being, and setting laws with the most formidable punishments, and suffering an unseemly death on the cross! If, then, righteously and quite afterward, you wanted to impute sins to the earth-born, by the fire of time, before judgment, to be cleansed, since it is fitting for the only sinless person to endure a bit of vexation, the salvation of man is convenient for the being? If the venerable and sinless one, with many and fierce passions, as he clearly speaks about himself, must quickly enter into his glory, lest we be afraid, not exactly according to the God-given commandments, walking the opposite path, which is not a fiery cleansing, but, as we hear, there is eternal death, but also from much madness, and strangely and counterintuitively, we hope to reach the imperishable glory of the suffering Christ. This is the game of children playing, and not the strong wisdom of a solid stone, on which Christ has placed his church, having washed it with his Divine blood. Moreover, whores and great laughter will be forbidden to those who live lawlessly, and if someone, throughout his life, hoping for a fiery cleansing after death, lives lawlessly, indulging himself in all sorts of evil deeds, then became sober, and about them he committed lawlessness, not being sick of his own free will, he sang food 4 below, like bread, below, with tears, dissolve your drink, below he wore sackcloth, below he walked around lamenting all day, his life was filled with reproach about him, below on the most pure top he poured out the valuable ointment of divine zeal, below he wet his most pure feet with warm tears, imitating the ancient harlot, in the same way as robbery and lawless crimes, and other all sorts of godly gains having accumulated countless gold and silver for himself, without imitating the publican, who gave in quadruple, distributing half-stuff to the poor, just like he did, and moreover, in the image written, he left the lawless torment of relatives and strangers, without mercy, in their outcome, the seas are poor and wretched, and it was fitting for him to show mercy and allow the cruel tortures, and he himself will hear a pleasing voice: this day is salvation for this house, about this one dying verb: my culpa, my culpa 5, that is, my sin, and with the tripartite and double-fingered emphasis of my lips and breasts, the Divine glory will be inside, involuntarily cleansed by fire, upon its outcome. It is good and necessary and salutary to eat, and even if someone has sinned from them, look away from them, but if he loses the prayers read above by the psalmist 6, and even if all that terrible Gehenna cleanses for endless centuries, he will escape eternal torment. “Forgive,” he said, “from evil, and do good” (Ps. 33:15), and “having received health,” he said, “let no one sin, lest it be worse for you” (John 5:14), and not by purifying fire, he said, “you will be clean; and a tree that does not produce fruits of good praise is cut off “and is thrown into the fire” (Matthew 3:10), and is not purified; and those who created good, in the resurrection of ageless life, say, will come out of the grave, and not those who created evil; They will not come out of the grave at the resurrection of life, but at the resurrection of judgment, and not from, like you, the purifying fire. From this we understand the word to be mysterious, oh friends! and having understood, let us open every controversy to vain. Those who have done good things, that is, deeds, will receive an incorruptible life, and not those who have done evil, even after their outcome, having been purified by fire for a short time before judgment. How else could there be a manifestation of this Divine voice, in the midst of eternal life and the torments of hell? There is nothing else known to reality, but Abiye calls the righteous into an inheritance of eternal powers, while he condemns the workers of lawless deeds in the unquenchable fire, and does not honor the glory of the Divine with the fire of the temporary before the judgment of those who have been purged. Even though there is a possibility of doing good in the present life, until the soul is united with its body, and good or evil, together with them, they act according to their will; Likewise, not by fiery purification after death, but by the creation of good deeds in this life, the ageless lives of honor will be received by the faithful who came from the grave then. To this, the Savior spoke to his disciple: try to enter the narrow and sorrowful gates, telling your will the need and deeds that we should endure, for the evil lusts and malice that are common to our souls, which we commanded to be washed off here, by the procession of the narrow and sorrowful path, and not by the cleansing one, before judgment, fire. Even though there are so many words, they will not be able to seek the inner being of the divine palace, but striking from the outside at the divine door: the hedgehog, “we do not know you,” from where we come (Matthew 25:12), they will hear, and not having been purified by fire, they will receive it inside. Alas, alas! Even if those who seek the sad and narrow path are not able to follow everything and strive in every possible way, as the divine preacher of Christ teaches, and those who, with unceasing aspirations and whole-heartedly along the vast path, will appear where? Indeed, the preacher cries out (1 Cor. 6:9-10): Do not be flattered; neither the cold nor the predatory, nor the harassers, nor those who are counted according to the ranks of those, will enter into the incorruptible glory. And what about those who, by this fire, and even before the judgment, are contrary to the Divine commandment, which cleanses and leads them into the glory of God, how can they not stray from the truth? River bo: be flattered; I have actually exposed the false wisdom of the Corinthians about those who, in their last breath, are waiting with a cold word to create repentance for their countless sins; In addition, those who have become the Saviors of all, if they have been cleansed by the purifying fire, all those who have created evil will be honored with immortal life. But do you remember the only infidels in this former speech? but oh wisdom! The divine and all-wise preacher of Christ clearly teaches that you will perish without shame, as if you have sinned beyond the law. And those who “sin in the law, by the law,” he says, “will be tortured” (Rom. 2:12), and will not be purified by fire. From this it is revealed that the entire feat of the Judge towards those who have sinned is in the law; “If he puts in a lot,” he said, “then they will take a lot from him” (Luke 12:48). If you then, as the preacher says, perish without cold, but you again, having been purified by fire, are made worthy of immortal life: then no one else will appear as the Savior standing, like a stern and unmerciful person, he will be sent into the unquenchable fire, and the word of judgment will be false to you, according to you. To this, and this Divine saying leads everyone to this, saying: “Walk until you have the light, lest darkness overtake you” (John 12:35). This clearly says that it is unworthy of the light of piety to be covered by those who walk, and not to be purified by fire after their outcome. walking, to do His saving commandments with all diligence, the same thing that covers us, the final separation of the soul and this body, when it is no longer possible to do the soul-beneficial and sanctifying works for us, - as if this body remains motionless, leaving it to the moving spirit, and that, having been separated from that, remains not part of the saving ones deeds, she will be deprived of the tools that assist her to the supplication of the Judge. To this end, the Savior speaks to His mouth: on the day of the last judgment, give man an answer about the idle verb (Matthew 12:36), and how can a multitude of unhealed sins be cleansed before the judgment, and even if the smallest sin is observed in the last judgment? As the Judge commands, it is not desirable for him to philosophize before the previous judgment about the cleansing fire of incurable sins. “For,” he said, “the Son of man desires to come in the glory of his Father..., and then he will reward everyone according to his deeds” (Matthew 16:27). Before that terrible coming of the all-unclean, you brought into the belly a fiery cleansing, were not the whores revealed, returning the Divine statute to the face of madness 8 , to this, calling your sincere fool, guilty of Gehenna, as we hear, and not included in the Divine glory, by the fire of a short time, before the terrible judgment, having been cleansed. The judge endlessly torments those who have sinned without repentance, but will not justify them by cleansing them with fire; and you, as if you were the most merciful Creator, with the fire of the first judgment, cleansing everything that is filthy into the belly. Take care, oh good one! so that you will not find yourself having suffered, as stated in the parable: “If blindness leads the blind, both of them fall into a pit of destruction” (Matthew 15:14), which is like unquenchable fire. But you, my soul! Having retreated from the soul-destroying thoughts of sowing, repent of the truth and hold on to those offered, weaving gracefully praise to the supreme ones. These are the essence of those who possess the power of the age itself, as the hymnist speaks, with eyes looking at tongues, whose sight of lies has driven away the darkness, and the lightness of truth has risen. These are the lips of red kindness more than all the sons of men, Divine grace poured out on the bride, and like a sweet sage moving, a new and beautiful song will soon be heard to the ends of the earth. These are the essence of the unflattering breast of the immaculate bride of Christ, who is perfected for a husband, as it is written, they will educate with spiritual punishments, and according to the age of the fulfillment of Christ, they will vouchsafe the faithful to achieve good things. These are truly hands and fingers, taught to fight and fight from the One, strong and invincible, with whose courage every hostile and soul-destroying storm is easily reflected, and the sweet spring of silence has shone upon the souls. These are the established muscle, like the bow of the copperhead, and the legs, like the fir tree, quickly accomplished by the blessed and divine breaths of the Paraclete 9, quickly driving away all the destructive charms of demons from the whole earth. These are the true essence of the divine rain, filled with clouds, which always sprinkle the beloved grapes with their bountiful, red-fruited ones and show them to their Master. These are the essence of the mighty arrows, sharpened, from the bow of God, fired at the idolatrous and evil scepters of the kingdom, which were planted life-giving in the hearts of those previously hostile to the King, and filled with divine love, people fell under His most pure feet, and the yoke of His life-giving commandments with sitting on your necks with joy. Predict it, my soul! sing according to their dignity, yield to the immaterial forces, and not, trying to glorify them to the highest standards, find yourself annoyed for rudeness, because trying to praise them with dignity is equal to stellar reading. But, about Spasova’s good-praised duo, pillars, always affirming the unshakable sunflower with divine prayers! O Peter, the foundation of the Church of Christ, like the highest treasures of the clergyman, like the fiery theologians at the top, like the first in the judges! And you, Pavle! the whole universe is a God-inspired and loud-voiced trumpet, even with the divinely spoken broadcast of the sermon, and the truth with the light and power of the outer, the sage of cunning, like the thin-looking offspring of Pythic, having terrified you, scattered here and there, casting me into the abysses of oblivion, the ray of the three-sun light, like God You have spread the illumined and all-bright and great sun throughout the entire universe. Either in the flesh, or as you say, besides it, you were marvelously caught up to the third heaven, and there, having studied the mind of the ineffable, the all-golden cup appeared, filled with divine nectar, that is, the Holy Spirit, filling the entire universe with divine drunkenness. Rejoice in being filled with the beauty of Christ; you have been illumined by Him and have received eternal reward through your labor in abundance. Accept this praise with joy, and we pray that you mercifully visit us, with divine love, who honor your all-praised and all-honorable memory. From them, may the remission of sins and the firmness of faith always give us, who have departed from this cursed life, into the most pure and sublime prayers; May our thoughts be richly influenced by the richness of divine writings and enlightenments, and may wisdom be right and reverent, and let us venerate the triscendent and consubstantial power directly, just as you were in the books of the ruler, illuminated by the Divine Paraclete, and just as the councils of the omnipotent and holy ones have flowed for you seven times, by God’s manoveviya. all-wise shepherds, who breathe the Paraclete itself, and who are clothed in Him with the All-Holy Spirit, testing the depths of God, establishing with the strongest rules the divine confession of the Orthodox faith, which is: I believe in one God... to those set forth by God’s inspiration from you and they dare not apply or lay down anything with an impudent mind, as well as malice there are both dares. And under the most terrible oaths, set forth in ancient times and confirmed by the fathers, burning with God's jealousy, and far away he places the divine courts, these transgressions are madly dared. If it is not lawful to eat, the thief and the thief called not the divine door, entering into the sheepfold, escaping from the other side, and saying: “My sheep will hear My voice,” but they will flee from someone else’s voice (John 10:27), and not being with Him, that is, not abiding in His divine teachings, manifestly shown enemy is uncompromising to herself. It is also written in the Gospel: “Whatever is not with Me, is on Me, and... do not gather with me, it will be scattered” (Matthew 12:30), not collecting teachings with him, I agree with everything that I myself have stated, showing by the divine judgment to be scattered, and the least commandment of the one who has ruined, and the human race, not like Him, Having taught the verb, I am given over to the last torments, but alas, I transgress the terrible and higher word of the existing teaching, the hedgehog about the Holy Spirit, Whom he himself uttered with his own lips, that cruelty will not happen from God the Word? And your, Paul, intolerable 10 rule says: if an angel comes from heaven, especially if you have learned from them, let the message of Christ be excommunicated, and let Satan be condemned to the unquenchable fire of Geon, which is interpreted as follows: let him be anathema. Hear in your mind and be horrified with all your soul and, having understood, repent, those who, through the audacity of your mind, through the statute of the God-bearing ones, rush with great bliss: for the angels, outside the message of Christ, excommunicate those who transgress his Divine statutes, will Rome, or Athens, or Byzantium spare the honest statutes of those who transgress? It is not proper for such people to be seduced by vain hopes. No, honest men! neither, I pray. Neither a person nor a city has been forgiven by his rank to transform his thoughts into something ineffable, but it is reasonable to that One All-Blessed and Trisunny Nature, that is, the Holy Trinity, but moreover, it is firmly commanded not to push them away from their rules, but it is immutable to observe them; For Me, keep this speech, which I now command you, the speech is harmless, add nothing to it, below the pack, take away, say to the secret man of old, that is, Moses. If for all the old law, he says, the canopy and images are so severely tormented by such a graceful husband, he will in no way command you to foresee, even in the least perfect man, the entire Orthodox faith set forth, that is, the sacred symbol, the holy councils, and the statutes with strong and formidable oaths already confirmed and concluded by the divine men who have gathered seven times in different cities and times. Insolence and unbearable madness of the soul, which is worthy of judging no more shame than the canopy and images, even if, according to the word of truth, there is more here than Solomon and Jonah swallowed up by a whale. But below, with unwashed robes, let someone approach the divine mountain; Otherwise, he might be stoned. With much fear and great abstinence I prevented this dense enclosure, and brought everything outside the former five-numbered doors 11 into the mysterious darkness. I entered into it not to test boldly, below, as much as the thought relishes 12, incontinently seeking beyond any mind, surpassing, but being covered by the hand of the Divine, that is, illuminated by God's light, looking through the hole from the stone of God's back, that is, prepurified by the firmness of the commandments, the words of creatures to look at the visible and invisible beings more sparingly, - this can be understood mysteriously as God's back, as if they were after, - but do not look at the face of God without coldness, that is, what God is like, do not experience, rejoicing, satisfied with those revealed from divine men, and above them not to experience, but to agree with their sacred words, below to be proud I trust in my wisdom; cruelly, cruelly, there is nowhere to speak of the divine scripture, against the sharp edges of the axles (Acts 26:14) with crazy feet; “No one,” he said, “having seen My face, answered the secret man of old to Moses, and he will live” (Exod. 33, 20), with these turning away the thoughts of those who dare to explore the unexplored, that is, the mysteries of the Divine for this sake, and even without the help of divine enlightenment, they cover the visions of their two wings, because they do not tolerate the Divine Lordship, which is intolerable, and they sign the charters of the vision of God lower rank. Insolence and damage to the mind have been demonstrated, even though the Divine answers and ancient statutes were set out by the mindless to transgress, their well-known test is not acceptable to human thoughts, which, however, can be solved by much carelessness, but usually throw their despoiler into the fire. Curse, says the Psalmist, those who deviate from Thy commandments. What could be worse than a curse? but we are sent straight to Gehenna; there is good in running, but in them there is no loss, but in them there is salvation, in them salvation lives, far better, and to remain firm in the Divine statutes and to love those firm messages, God-wise souls are truly a testimony and akin to everything that boasts and says: I am a beast with you and I will bear with you, for a hedgehog in the likeness of cattle to listen Master, I will not let you stay with him. The Father alone is the beginning of all beings through guilt; from him let us sing the Son and the Spirit, according to the ancient fathers, so that just as there is one special parent to the Son, so also one will appear who gives up the Spirit, so that each hypostasis may know its own nature and remain motionless. The thought that says that the Son and the Father through guilt, the ever-essential Spirit, has been destroyed is a crudely characteristic statute. The property, like the theologians, if it moves forward, has no property to it. To the Father alone both the hedgehog and the hedgehog are of the same essence, the theological thought testifies; The Areopagite theologian and the entire council of the glorious God-speaking Fathers say that there is only one source of the Divine nature; to this end, to call the Son special and true, denies the hedgehog of His deceiver; two names, and by no means opposing themselves, bearing witness to one person; Moreover, he posits these two principles in a three-light being blasphemously and extremely rudely. If, in number, there are two destroyers, why not two sources of the Spirit? Just as God is one being and there are three, so there are also three hypostases. Either in person or in essence, you need to philosophize, unite with the emanator, sometimes they emanate the ever-present Spirit. And even if the faces unite with them, they philosophize, and sometimes give up the ever-present Spirit, the confusion of Savely was revealed, merging both of them into one person. If, by means of an essential connection, the ever-essential Spirit is said to be expelled from them, I leave it to her to examine what is indispensable from here. There is one being and a combination of three; equate each other's hypostases in everything except their being an image. And here the Spirit will be, together with the Father, giving birth to the Son. What could be more wicked than that? If, in all things, the Son will appear equal to the one who smites Him, for the sake of the words of His destroyer, then because I have heard from your wisdom, it is now time to give to the Spirit, for he is equal to both the Father and the Son, and may he, together with the Father, slay the Son, so that the Spirit will appear equal to the Father and the Son. Your wisdom is such that it commands. If, however, your disciple has already breathed in the speech: “Receive the Holy Spirit” (Jn. 20, 22), for this reason and because of this you are wise to waste this, the time has already passed and even in the person of the first created breath, breathed in ancient times, comes from the Father and the Son. If it is blasphemous to think this there, then it is blasphemous here too; put the breath there and there and here the scripture equally. Moreover, if then the breath of the whole is essential, that is to say, the Holy Spirit will be breathed into them, so that you do not command them to leave Jerusalem, but to abide in it, until they are clothed with power from above. It is manifested that from the fulfillment of one’s fulfillment he will give them the gift of sin decisively, and not that entire hypostasis that is natural to him of the Most Holy Spirit. How is it that the indescribable is described by the describable lips, like a certain trumpet was then breathed into the former student? But below, Elma his Spirit is called, it is commendable to philosophize, as if he is expelled, and, less than to rejoice from this speech when, the imams’ sound mind and feeling that gave birth to him, before his Father is called. Moreover, the one who was born said more to himself, and all through the fault, and not according to the word of the Divine being; equally, it is known in three. And even more, and less, it does not accept at all. If, according to you, it is equal to the Father with His words to give up the ever-present Spirit, the verb of the one who gave birth to himself will appear in vain. But, be merciful to all, King and Master! equality of guilt will drive away more of them from among them. Whoever, adorned with good faith, endures, hearing the very truth, shameless and rude blasphemy. If, in essence, as well as in guilt, the one who is born is equal to the one who is born, how is the All-True One greater than the Father of Rivers? Moreover, let human thoughts lie, even as their great, shamelessly vain words dare to squeak against Divine commands. God alone is always true, let him be glorified, and let his Divine commandments be observed with fear and reverence, and let them be worshiped honestly. Do you understand what blasphemous abysses the vain teaching tears apart the words of others? With wisdom, the divine hymn-writer truly prayed to God’s commandments, and not to covetousness, that is, the vain teaching of other people’s words, bow to his heart; It is very difficult to deceive human thoughts and separate the truth by not understanding what is appropriate to it. If, with the bridle of the divine horses, the members of it were firmly tied, and under the yoke you brought the divine quaternity, that is, the Gospel, the horse acquired golden wings, lifting you up unblemishedly to the very sky, and you received the doves on a silver-plated krill, decorating the space between them with gold. If you were intemperately given to yourself by its unrighteous fury, the bloodworm beetle completely appeared, you were always moving wildly, and with them the packs were lying on the bottom, but the spitting donkey was filling the womb and was taken down to the bottom, and the blindness was touching the wall, and the pig was plunging into the filthy mud. But if you listen to those bad words of mine, if you are at all sad about your necessary good praise and common salvation, come, having abandoned the ancient strife, let us again love the God-given world, in which Christ rejoices, and with one mind, as the divine statutes are set forth, we sing the praises of the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father alone, in simplicity of mind, listening to the teacher, and from him Let us accept the kind praise of the faithful servant who appeared as a little one. Enough for yourself, oh friends! Yes, let us impute to those who find themselves equal to the teacher in the sacraments, even more than the mind and the word, because His teaching is not false, as below the student is above the teacher, below the slave of the master. Let us accept, like babies, even in part, about kindness! we understand and prophesy, the kingdom is above intelligent and divine teachings, so that we may enter into God’s glory; otherwise it is impossible to receive, as we hear from a false voice. Below the former time, in the hedgehog of honor we understand that we are boldly seeking perfection: do not philosophize, speaking, moreover, it is not proper to be wise, but philosophize in the hedgehog of chastity. The Divine Paul, having foreseen by the Spirit from afar your falling away, writes to you as a Roman: let us hold fast to the divine teaching, all immutable, so that we may become like the wise man who erected his church on top of the stone, and not the one who created it madly on the fox, who, unable to bear the need of the cloud of winds that suddenly rushed upon us, suffered a great fall. Likewise, the other statutes, showing the Church of Christ on earth as a second heaven, victims of honesty and priests who live blameless lives and honest morals, let us take care to correct them, just as the ancient rules were set down by divinely inspired men, who, by the wave of God, flocked seven times in various cities and years, yea, even though all the glory is within, the princess’s daughters are robed in gold. and brightly adorned with vestments from outside, at the right hand of the one who reigns over all, she will become. It is no small sin to bring unleavened bread to the perfect belly, even though the perfect human nature has been gathered together to eat for oneself, and not received from the Most Pure Maiden, but all this has been united to oneself immutably, that is, together with the soul and mind itself, their image is held by salt and kvass, like the divine Caesarea Saint Basil the Great teaches that the Laodicean Apollinaris will eradicate the malicious heresy, and will drive away those who do not put salt and kvass in the prosphyra from the divine fences, as the wicked and the blasphemer and those who are swept aside, in the image of the lawlessly daring in the prosphyra of the all-perfect incarnation of God the Word. Hence, it is manifested that it was not from the God-inspired Peter and Paul and others that the holy man began to accept unleavened bread, but from the mad Apollinaris, who was mad and soulless in the body of the whore who, before all creation, received God the Word and came from the Pure Maiden, like through a certain pipe, for this purpose and forming the mind and soul, salt and kvass, forbidden from the divine bread, like the salt of the mind, but kvass forms the soul, because the divine prosphyra was new to him to dare in those years and the great Kasarian shepherd, burning with apostolic zeal, denounced his evil dogma, the writings most clearly show how in those years leavened bread was offered everywhere according to the ancient teaching and enlightenment of the all-honorable preacher of God the Word. If heretical thoughts are born, and not of apostolic enlightenment, the existing teaching is ancient and the customs are long-standing, establish such a dogma from among the faithful, so that you may be blameless and unoffending to everyone. Much of the Israeli holiday consists of unleavened eating. How cruel and shameful it is to commune with the wise of others, it is revealed to all the wise, who have great honor and a fair rank of God as a priest, when he is adorned with apostolic gifts, and not when he reeks of unclean stench, as is now seen from the negligence of those who stand before the Church of Christ. It is known to you, even if you are blind by inaccurate will, into what absurdities and outrages the priestly rose up, for which they did not correct their sins according to the ancient laws and rules, whose honest and godly life of care and great care is worthy of being, among them Christ’s law is reverently observed. The Divine commandment manifestly bequeaths, saying: Children of Israel, be reverent. And again: if the salt prevails, the earth will be salted” (Matthew 5:13), God’s voice cries out. And again: “You will not place your pearls before swine” (Matt. 7, 6), the same voice of God bequeaths, they liken it to themselves, and unworthily serve God’s mysteries. But the eye itself, when it is blind, cannot look at the sun’s rays with any power, as it will impose on visiting other fortunes of contrition the goal requiring: you will be healthy, and later you will have chaste thoughts, leave all debate that comes from the evil spirit, and in the simplicity of your mind follow the divine net, like fish of words, in the rational Mori are brought up, so that you will gather with the deliberate, and not with the rotten outcasts, you will be a mysterious vessel. And you will accept this remembrance quietly and peacefully, leaving behind all inappropriate rages, as if you will appear in Christ as a zealously and equally praised ancient divine man, as if you will receive from him honors equal to them. Amen, be this, as Christ pleases, through the prayers of Saints Peter and Paul, wise teachers and common intercessors. Rome is re-armed, which has spread its power throughout the whole earth, with the cunning of war and the courageous strength of its magnanimous citizens, with countless victories and overcoming the brightest to the heights of the aerial heights, and with its kings, the most proud and most unrighteous, a destructive fire has been blown with all its destructive jaws on the heavenly and ever-living King Jesus, two an unskilled husband, having lived through thinness and poverty and infirmity, but having descended into divine power from above, armed with green zeal, be horrified, O ends of the universe, under the most pure feet of Christ your King, such as are kinder than underlayers, instead of any other weapon, having taken up the invincible weapon of the glorious cross, which we are driven away from by him. all the malicious charms of demonic trappings, but Christ the Most High King of the Great God and ever-present being proclaiming to him and the Judge is all unhypocritical, like the noble rams who were killed by the wicked king, a pure sacrifice was quickly brought to Christ, who gave thanks to the glorious and sacred deeds of their deeds, crowned them with crowns unfading glory, the bodies of Rome, the spirits of heaven itself, taking the honor of their labors from Christ the Great King, His Divinity established on the whole earth with His blood. 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