86. 1459 г. Его же послание новгородскому архиепископу Ионе об охранении паствы от наветов киевского митрополита Григория

From the collection of the Synodal Library No. 562, l. 101 vol.–105; It was published, according to the same list, in the first volume of Historical Acts under No. 65. Message from Metropolitan Jonah, Jonah, Archbishop of Veliky Novgorod and Pskov, about the parishioners and Gregory Metropolitan from the Roman countries to the Kiev Metropolis Blessing of Jonah, Metropolitan of All Rus', about the Holy Spirit to the beloved son and colleague of our humility Jonah, Archbishop of Veliky Novgorod and Pskov: grace and peace and mercy from the Almighty God and from the Most Pure Mother of God, our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, and from our humility blessing and prayer. We remember this to you, our son, and weigh for yourself how the divine and sacred rules of the holy and supreme Apostles and the holy and God-bearing Fathers command and forbid our humility, the present abbot and nurturer and teacher, established by God for the holy great and cathedral churches of God, and for all of the great Orthodox Christianity that belongs to us. flock, what great care and concern we have for the holy Orthodox and Christian faith, received from the seven holy ecumenical councils, and from the Reigning City, and from our Russian land, the enlightener and teacher, the holy Grand Duke Vladimir, equal to the Apostles, who enlightened the Russian land with holy baptism; How can we observe the holy tradition and have it firmly, immovably, and lay down our souls for it, and not stick to the new thing in any way, according to the great holy Supreme Apostle Paul’s words: “More than that which is betrayed from him, even if an angel preaches the good news, or he himself utters anything else, let him be anathema,” accursed. And that, son, we need great things... 2798 and for that reason we were condemned. I also remind you, son, of what it is like for you, son, to confess and promise God to our humility in your appointment to the priesthood; you yourself know to beware of Latinism: and for this reason I am writing briefly about this to you, even though we ourselves know that you are a sensible man and have weighed the divine scripture. And what, son, the current evil news that is coming, we hope you have long known, that a certain Gregory came from the Roman countries to the Kyiv metropolitanate, and called 2799 the Kyiv metropolitan and the entire Russian land; but he came with all the evil morals and not with our pious former Christian faith, but was appointed, they seem, by the same evil and godless man, a certain patriarch called Gregory, from the same Roman churches, having with him, for evil reinforcement, the damned papal letters there, and 2800 of the accursed apostate from the pious Christian faith of the evil Isidore and that who placed him in the metropolis of the wicked Patriarch Gregory. And that son, Isidore, the evil apostate, from the beginning you know, you know how when he came to our Orthodox Christianity, to our land, like ancient Formos, he wrapped himself in sheep’s skin, and the former meek one appeared, like a sheep, and then changed into an evil and fierce wolf; and as the all-merciful God taught, as sometimes 2801 and now likewise, our great ruler, the pious and noble Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich, about the Holy Spirit of our son, according to the originality of his great nobility from that holy and great Prince Vladimir, about the Orthodox holy Christian faith, he has great care 2802, as if God gave in his fatherland, in the Russian land, indestructible 2803 was nothing until God's will and until the end of the century. And I, our son 2804, not for the sake of my own glory, nor for my own majesty, although, but of the terrible and formidable Judge, the Almighty Lord God, fearing and having care for my soul, as we all await on the terrible day of judgment of our future endless condemnation, according to our own deeds, but I am writing this to you, my son, according to that great one given to us by God [the priesthood]. May we send to the land of Lithuania to your brothers, to the God-loving bishops of the Lithuanian land, and to the Christian princes, and to the lords, and to all Orthodox Christianity of our Orthodox faith, honest people and spiritual people, the Trinity Abbot Vasian of the honest monastery of Sergius Monastery and the Cyril Monastery of the honest elder Abbot Casian, with the blessing of our humility and with speeches and writings 2805, to strengthen Orthodox Christianity, so that they stand strong and strive courageously, [as] God, with his omnipotent help, will enlighten and strengthen them for this great work. And I thank and bless you, my son, for the same thing, so that you, in your own way towards God [the holy duty] and according to the holy rules of law and command, and in scope and confession, in your setting, to the Almighty God and to our humility, according to the holy Orthodox Christian faith, stand and have the care of you firmly, as God will instruct you, with our humility and with your brethren, with the God-loving Russian bishops, from one in total; and your children, Orthodox Christianity, would you instruct and strengthen in this regard, according to your holy duty, with great strength; and about this you are to receive from God a hundredfold and abundant mercy, and here from all Orthodoxy the blessed praise and honor of the saints 2806 from the entire priesthood, conciliarly, from the holy seven ecumenical councils of the holy Fathers... 2807 And having called to ourselves about the Holy Spirit the sons and fellow servants of our humility, the God-loving archbishop and Russian bishops, the honest elders of the holy monks and monks, and we looked at the sacred and divine rules, and on the advice of the great ruler, about the Holy Spirit of our beloved [our son], the blessed Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich, and his son the noble and faithful Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich, and having considered what God taught us... 2808, he did not keep everything uninformed, and if he had, he would have written everything down to us with his letters. And what, son, are the letters and lists that reached us from those countries, or which letters came to us from our children and fellow servants, the bishops of the Lithuanian land: and we copied from all those letters and lists and sent them to you, and you know, son, we ourselves know about everything from them. May you read this letter to your son, and show it to your children, to all Orthodox Christianity, to the people named after Christ, and instruct and strengthen them, as God instructs you. 2809 Further in the manuscript it is written: dem lice. The original could have said: “we must [be afraid, lest we be] condemned for this and that.” In the manuscript a; in the Acts further added from. In manuscript and when; in the Acts and then. Something is missing here that is necessary for completeness of meaning. It is noted in the Acts: the end is missing. 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