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Exaltation (Elevation) of the Precious Cross

The word exposes Hellenic charm

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Now, with the help of Divine help, we have already denounced the Jewish demonism against the Savior Christ, come and the rest, about the soul, we will turn ourselves against the Hellenic wisdom and daring speech; no less than the Jews shoot at blaspheming our great Christian faith. If anyone asks them: for the sake of it, O men, do you really hate the all-honorable Christian faith and will you reproach it with desecration, spitting, annoyance, like a doe, a cross and a dishonorable death, mocking us, reproaching us, as if showing the greatest weakness of our God. Wretched indeed and foolishly, they understand that in their image they are trying to extinguish the glory of His Divine and all-reigning power, and by doing so, even unwillingly, they reveal Him as the one and all-powerful and wise God, the King of all. Even the calico: having endured passions and dishonorable death, as they say, the pride and insolence of the glorious gods and the hedgehog service throughout the entire earth and their magic churches can soon destroy from everywhere to the end not many (m) warriors, below the squires, the armorers, below from the sky with lightning arrows; according to the meek words and smooth teachings of all, from the dark charms of the idols, transpose into the unblemished light of your good faith, not glory on earth, nor food pleasure, below other things from the red lives of this, promising them, most of all, it is opposite to those who foretell His sorrow and all kinds of fierce multitudes, the honor of them and the reward of the Most High Divine the kingdom, for the sake of countless multitudes of all kinds of people throughout the whole earth, seeking and finding them all together, who had renounced their covetousness, or in the deserts who ended this life before the good, or with fire and sword and many torments of those who suffered to leave the light of the sun. Who is your God from all eternity, or a strong king, or a rhetorician and a wise lawgiver, if it is possible to do at least one thing for your fellow tribesmen and exhort them to be negligent of all the red people of this world and to dare even to death and rejoice in sorrows, even about good faith? Not a single one, but by working hard you will find it; It is by no means possible for humanity to achieve strength and wisdom. And soon the wisest and most uneducated men were crucified, and this was accomplished throughout the whole earth, and although it is worthy of great surprise, as the tormentors and the most severe persecutors are persecuted everywhere, likewise we are overwhelmed and slandered by countless troubles of heresies, our faith remains unshakable, equal to the highest stone and immovable mountain, who persecuted most hostilely, who were most wickedly exterminated by God from this life. If you are a true stewards of sacred wisdom and have become wise with a firm and sober mind, if not a single other God-inspired speech exhorts you to retreat, even if you are ill, from the evil debate before 2 from the victory and eternal destruction of the great false gods spoken by you and from the vain 3 translating the tongue from an idol to a hedgehog according to Christ, holy good faith, know the invincible power of the crucified one and put aside all crazy debate, let us accept a chaste mind, do not impute to Christ the diarrhea 4 and shame of dishonest passion, but the all-wise intention of the all-good God, surpassing all understanding and the verb of man. He thought about it prudently, as if by death and even dishonest passions, he had willed them, then he would quickly accomplish great and wondrous divine deeds throughout the whole earth; It was revealed quickly, as if God could, and with a single wave of action this would soon happen throughout the entire earth. Even if there was a guard on the cross, 5 he shook the whole earth and the light of the sun in the middle of the day into deep darkness, and split the stone and raised up the ancient buried dead; Much more could God, with his omnipotent divine wave, transform into the light of God's bright good faith the dark darkness of the atheism of demonic idols and the human soul, mortified by the bitter poison of the evil and soul-destroying serpent, to revive with his Holy Spirit, as if I had removed from the grave from the evil faith of idols, from them for all over the earth soon the greenest and most divine men became small and unlearned, having come to know His omnipotent God, not with burning lightning, nor with armed force, nor with flattering dreams and terrifying intimidation, men who are terrifying or boring, but with sacred meekness and quietness, calling everyone to the light of their good faith. Accept His saving passions humbly and kindly, in the same way and heal the healing healings, even if the worst seems to me, I don’t have much experience, I will die even less, even if I receive health. Show then that you yourself are just as obedient to God as he is to an earthly doctor, and then you will understand that there is great benefit of the cross, as it greatly cheers and illuminates the souls of believers and shows the Most High other celestial ones and is filled with ever-present blessings. Divine power and grace are poured into him from above: in this way, let the soul of the faithful be gladdened and sanctified together; Armed with them, the cathedrals of the desert-loving venerables and the countless regiments of martyrdom, the slaughter of the flesh, leaped together and the malicious trappings of destructive demons, conveniently escaped, and now in the heavenly courts they are installed together with the holy spirits, whose life and life willed on earth, but the ovs, according to good faith, fight against the persecuted, both with fire and sword and We were exhausted by all kinds of torment in our flesh, not being afraid, but spat on by all the rages of the infidels, with our blood informing everyone of the one who was crucified and destined to die for three days, everlasting of the same being of the highest God and perfect man. Moreover, it is not a sign of powerlessness; but the manifestation of God’s omnipotent power is the cross, just as the ability to cure severe diseases with evil past ones is an indication above the natural wisdom of the doctor. If you don’t quarrel with these, you still remain, from immeasurable madness, swearing at our honest secrets, nothing strange: for, hearing the wise teaching, the unlearned one will not accept the Hellenic punishment for you, the lower the cancer will learn to walk upright, the lower the murin will whiten if we wash ourselves: this is not the thought of an idolater, and the lawless the deeds and vile lusts of the one having fun, the inconvenience will never arise from the faithful and righteous law and teaching of sacred piety. Know the Christian faith in the same way, O men, and even about the all-holy teachings on high, strive to fight with a chaste, honest thought, having cast out every curse from your heart; You will find nothing more blasphemous in them, less than unclean, less than reproach and hatred. It is not Zeus who is enraged by lust for fornication and by devoting himself to a swan and a pompous eagle and valuable gold, as if, having hidden himself, he will corrupt other people’s wives; or let the cupbearer delight the beloved youth; Below, giving birth to Pallas, a well-read maiden, from his head, both of them were struck on the head with a sharp ax; He descended below with lightning and burned Semelia 7 and hid the baby in his whip; below Thebes 8 hairy, playing with a youth and killing his lover involuntarily with a disk; below the goddess, dividing the golden apple while cooking; below Aphrodite fornicating with Ares; 9 below the gods fight among themselves and throw a copy at each other; Below, something else that is so godly and disgusting is found in all the holy Christian teachings; but there is one God in three hypostases who is sung in them, neither beginning nor end, the Almighty Lord who contains all, and the Provider of all His creation, visible and invisible; all-wise, most good, most generous, all-pure, light, desire, belly, and insatiable zeal, hating the wicked, the unrighteous covetous, those who live badly, the vile and all the proud, whom he condemns with the fire of hell, which endlessly torments them, and with the ever-debilitating worms. He praises the faithful and all the virtues of the zealots, and especially those who bow to the tears of the poor, who are rewarded for their virtues, after death they are revealed by their heavenly citizens, with the divine light ever illuminated splendidly and filled with His well-spoken blessings, even though the eye has not seen, the ear has heard, or the human heart has not sighed, where divine joy and gladness and an ageless belly and the knowledge of insatiable wisdom. It is not only we, O men, who speak and philosophize, but also these first masters of your wisdom, and about the Lord Himself of all and about His righteous and terrible judgment and hellish torment, and they philosophize greatly and in the books of their writing, even if they have not completely guessed about them; God will not be deprived of the equivalent Word and Spirit and of one essence with Himself, just as the sun is not devoid of warmth and rays, and the verbal soul is deprived of mind and words. Just as it is fitting to believe the One in His essence, so too must one eat Him again according to His hypostases; by His hypostases it is inseparably divided, but by His essence it is still united not by mixture, division and union of both, which surpasses any mind and word of man. The same is the bliss hoped for after death: with the naked souls of acceptance, I wisely eat, below the earth on a flowering vine, as the fabulous Calliopia 10 says, but as the Lord Himself commanded everyone in the very heavenly courts and in the desired place, souls again gloriously copulating with their bodies, erected by the bright ones, incorruptible, by the command of God, when He came down from heaven to judge (to judge) all mankind together. It is appropriate to firmly believe in this with your heart, and boldly preach with your mouth, as the Lord of all is the all-merciful Lord, Who by His sole goodness has brought all things from non-existence into existence, having shown mercy to the poor human race, perishing in the evil of idolatry, and perishing with all kinds of wickedness and countless iniquities, perishing in the likeness of the herd. wordless cattle, His Only Begotten Son, God the Word, is equal to Himself in divine being and countless strength of the ambassador to help the poor human race, so as to leave them 11 of all Godly wickedness, godless idols, and guide them to true reason and the light of good faith. It is truly befitting of God’s innumerable goodness not to despise one’s image, but to help him, who is perishing in poverty through all sorts of flattery of destructive demons. Everything that exists is precious and valuable and suitable for food in sweetness, in decoration and in the treatment of diseases on the earth, in the sea, in the lakes, in the rivers, and the sun and the moon and the stars, the good dissolution of air and rain into the earthly anointing of all His honoring image, create the most kindly humane, elevating it with all of them to your love and reason. Henceforth it was revealed that He had a very honest acquisition, made up of dust and soul. 12 For this reason, the envy of the destructive and malicious demon was seduced by the former and by his countless flatteries crawled into final evil, she could not bear it at all, in vain, we are perishing in vain, but with our wombs we worship our indescribable generosity and mercy as a father, the ole of God’s love! strive Yourself to seek the creation of your own, our vision will be completely perceived, in which we live immaculately and splendidly, and against the evil and destructive enemy, like a man, in the desert, we graciously seize victory, having been tempted three times by him, the first three parents of destructive passions, that is, the delicacy of the belly, glory and the love of gold, especially the people We can catch everything conveniently. And having betrayed the sacraments of unflattering piety and theology with their disciples and having laid down the most divine laws of the most perfect life, armed with them, they will easily overthrow the evil serpent who is always fighting them. Having tasted death by will, like a man, and the faithful who had been shut up in hell, together with Himself with divine power, raised them from the dead; We wish we were going to enter the same place. He himself ascended to heaven with his flesh, the conqueror of death and the captor of hell, sitting at the right hand of the Father on the throne of his glory, from nowhere is the judge to come. This is how it is about men, as briefly stated, as for us Christians, the great knowledge of teaching and wisdom was written down not by book and ordinary sayings, but by the truth and power of the brightest and the sun; God is the source of the mercy and goodness of all Lords, and although everyone, both wise and rude, equally and unflatteringly, receive benefit in their minds, this was written poorly 13 by the wave of God. Do not disparage their badness, as it is not written off by the eloquence of the Athenians, but their solid, unflattering, honest and divine, unfalse and wise, and righteous having prudently known them, glorify the Lord who arranges all things humanely for the benefit of every person. It is not right to abound in red and sophisticated verbs and send sweet messages from your tongue or recite by heart the countless sayings of the glorious ancient men; Is this perfection for the wise? neither; This, together with this life, suddenly disappears, just like other quickly fading red ones, but if you become rich in these things and have an unflattering faith until your end, and have an honest disposition and a praiseworthy life, that is, adorned with chastity and good law, with sacred meekness and humility, this is bliss and blessed perfection; This is the news that our most extreme desire will unite us; 14 It is not possible to receive it in any other way, but through the burning out of love of sacred good faith and the attraction of an honest life and all virtues established on pure faith. Strive to acquire this, O men, having rejected all pride that has arrived in your thoughts from the Hellenic teaching, for which the end is endless death and the underworld. Even though he seems to be kindly instructing about all virtues and good morals, but in his actions he exhorts all kinds of evil to love and learn from his gods, and about boys and about other people’s friends, as he predicted, he shows them enraged, and about brawls and fights, murders of men and flattery and wine-drinking and drinking. having a lot of fun. It’s not the execution of cold, cold stories, O men, who are like you, their own glorious books, if anyone scrapes out the red cunning verbs, cast them away, the vile mud will seem wonderful to the books of your first wise men. Having the same images of all kinds of malice, whoever deigns to live a chaste and reverent life; for he who tortures him, who has lived wickedly, has no regard for him; Therefore, the great gods who did it are sung by all who are wise men like you, pride that is excessive, like wisdom for you, the message will strike in the souls of their hearers and the hedgehog from the evil man 15 glory exhorts to remember this blessed end, and to enjoy it in every way to seek. Let Chrysippus cry out, and your Epicurus and all the men in your ranks, who have sung the sacred virtues with one red speech, are in their writings, in the whirlwind of all kinds of spiritual deeds. Because they themselves were furious and zealous, as if they had been devoured by some who were seeking something from raw-eating dogs; The new one, and taking pains to create beautiful copies, is known to be created by the last generation. Accursed in truth and nonsense; Having previously left the power of the notorious wisdom of yours as the last form of all evil, the image. It would have been better for them if they had passed away without teaching this life, than, having learned much, to be a teacher of all evil to all their listeners; For with their own writings they will tear down countless people into the underworld abyss of destruction. It is good, it is good, O men, to become wise with all intelligence and knowledge and sacred wisdom; But it is appropriate for this to be enriched with the right faith and to be adorned with honest morals, not to please people, below praise for the sake of glory and the desire for acquisitions, as they do with evil and dishonesty, slaves to their belly and vain glory, but for that same glory and insatiable joy of ineffable Divine kindness. This is truly perfection for the cultivator of sacred wisdom, who is united by the most extreme desires, and not by understanding the fables of the whore and the rotten and by the cunning academic arrogance of the Academy, but by diligent keeping of the God-inspired commandments and humble and good-natured wisdom of the soul, by sacred chastity and long-suffering meekness and unfeignedness towards everyone a man of love, created by the hand of God in His image, can soon rise again to his first glory, whose reward is not like from man a short-lived one, but from the Most High, endless praise and the end of the Divine kindness itself will be enjoyed in the very sacred and reverend courts. May we not be madly seduced by the sweetness of the vain good words of the Cecropides and remain in the darkness of wickedness, but let us hate the godless charm hidden in it with all our souls. Let us seek the unflattering truth of the Gospel, through which we have come to know the One, the beginningless, ever-present and all-reigning, all-good God, let us bow our knees to the earth, and pray to Him crying out: have mercy on the King of your servants! This word and the three words following it against the Mogametans were written before 1525. Calliope - epic muse will he leave? i.e. will delete, save You might be interested in:
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