Письмо XXXVI. Тому же

Blessed is my master with the Lord, and blessed is the garden of his heart, which the true husbandman Jesus planted and filled with immortal plants of righteousness; and our share was ours from its fruits, and we were filled with its spiritual vegetables, with which the great apostle knew how to nourish (Rom. 14:2) those who did not have enough strength to directly comprehend the Divine, feeding them, as if with vegetables, with the natural contemplation of the visible and through the splendor of the external world leading them to its Creator; 228 imitating him, and our blessed father and teacher showed us love and affection, allegorically in vegetables inviting us to consider creation. However, provide solid food [368] and move our soul, devoid of the thirst for the Divine and weakened by pleasures, limiting its aspirations to a more subtle understanding of Providence and Judgment, so as not to feed your disciples only with vegetables, teaching them the understanding of only things that arise and disappear, but also with bread, and wine, and oil, strengthening them with the understanding of the invisible; and give, like hard bread, the understanding containing virtues, warming up, as if with wine, the word of unforgettable guidance of the hearts of your students into a deifying frenzy, and pour into your charges, like oil, peaceful and unperturbed, nourishing and preserving an unquenchable burning in them. When reading Greek, the reader also first thinks that “him” refers to the “Creator,” and only then discovers that the author means the apostle. – Approx. lane You might be interested in: