{"slug":"khazarzar-john-chrysostom-de-paenitentia-sermo","id":"greek:khazarzar:khazarzar-john-chrysostom-de-paenitentia-sermo","title":"De paenitentia sermo","title_source":"De paenitentia sermo","author":"John Chrysostom","genre":"homily","date":null,"tradition":"greek","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},"publication":{"status":"machine-draft","reviewed_by":null,"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash:floor","provider":"Baidu","generated":"2026-11-15T17:59:26Z","cost_usd":0.005759},"source":{"registry_id":"greek:khazarzar:khazarzar-john-chrysostom-de-paenitentia-sermo","work_id":"khazarzar-john-chrysostom-de-paenitentia-sermo","edition":"khazarzar","language":"","license":null,"url":null},"stats":{"passages":49,"english_words":13577,"coptic_letters":0,"source_letters":54841,"commentary_units":0,"commentary_kinds":0,"derived_notes":1,"ambiguities":0,"work_notes":0,"external_links":0,"timeline":0},"summary":{},"links":[],"checks":{"work":"khazarzar-john-chrysostom-de-paenitentia-sermo","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":49,"translated":49,"commentary_passages":0,"commentary_units":0,"english_words":13577,"source_letters":54831,"commentary_kinds":0},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[],"derived_work_notes":[{"kind":"coverage","severity":"info","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},{"kind":"limit","severity":"caution","text":"The English is a machine draft produced passage by passage from the transcribed Greek; no human has verified it. The commentary is model-written and cites only keys the pipeline could resolve."},{"kind":"register","severity":"info","text":"Register: homily in ancient Greek; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them."},{"kind":"structure","severity":"info","text":"Passages: 49 narrative."},{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","text":"1 scriptural phrase match(es) noted: John 1:29."},{"kind":"source","severity":"info","text":"Source edition: khazarzar."}],"derived_structure":{"narrative":49},"term_index":[],"citations":{},"segments":[{"i":1,"ref":"p1","source":"Λόγος παραινετικὸς περὶ μετανοίας, ἐν ᾧ ἐμνημόνευσε καὶ ἐστηλίτευσε πάντα τὰ πάθη τῶν ἀνθρώπων. Λόγος Αʹ.\n\nαʹ. Ἀεὶ μὲν μνημονεύειν Θεοῦ καλὸν, καὶ πάνυ καλόν· καὶ τί ἂν γένοιτ' ἂν τούτου κάλλιον; Ἡ γὰρ τῶν κριμάτων αὐτοῦ μνήμη παράκλησιν παρέχει, καθώς φησιν ὁ Προφήτης· Ἐμνήσθην τῶν κριμάτων σου τῶν ἀπ' αἰῶνος, Κύριε, καὶ παρεκλήθην. Πόσην λοιπὸν παράκλησιν καὶ παραμυθίαν εἰκὸς καὶ εὐφροσύνην ὑποδέχεσθαι τὸν ἀεὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ μνημονεύοντα; καθὼς πάλιν ὁ αὐτὸς Προφήτης λέγει· Ἐμνήσθην τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ηὐφράνθην. Καὶ γενόμενος ἐν ἀπολαύσει τῆς ἐκ τῆς μνήμης ταύτης εὐφροσύνης, οὐκ ἔτι ἠνέσχετό τι ἄλλο ἐπὶ μνήμης φέρειν, εἰ μὴ μόνον τοῦ Θεοῦ, λέγων· Κύριε, μνησθήσομαι τῆς δικαιοσύνης σου μόνου· καὶ πάλιν, Μνησθήσομαι τοῦ ὀνόματός σου ἐν πάσῃ γενεᾷ καὶ γενεᾷ. Καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ πάλιν καθολικώτερον λέγει· Μνησθήσονται καὶ ἐπιστραφήσονται πρὸς Κύριον πάντα τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς. Ὁρᾷς ὅσην ὠφέλειαν παρέχει ἡ τοῦ Θεοῦ μνήμη; ὁρᾷς ὅσην ἰσχὺν παρέχει, ὡς καὶ τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης ἑλκύσαι πρὸς ἑαυτήν; Καὶ οὐ μόνον εἰδωλολατρείας ἠλευθέρωσεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτῆς τῆς μνήμης αὐτῶν λήθην ἐνεποίησεν. Ἑλκυσθέντα γὰρ ὑπὸ τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ μνήμης καὶ φωτισθέντα καὶ γνωρίσαντα Θεὸν ἀληθινὸν, λέγουσι περὶ τῶν ματαίων εἰδώλων· Οὐ μὴ μνησθῶ τῶν ὀνομάτων αὐτῶν διὰ χειλέων μου. Εἶδες μνήμης Θεοῦ ἰσχύν; εἶδες ἀλλοίωσιν ἀγαθήν; εἶδες μετοικεσίαν ἐπαινουμένην; Ἀληθῶς Αὕτη ἡ ἀλλοίωσις τῆς δεξιᾶς τοῦ Ὑψίστου, ἤγουν τῆς Χριστοῦ ἐπιδημίας, ὅς ἐστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ Πατρὸς, δι' οὗ τὰ πάντα ἐγένετο.","english":"A hortatory discourse on repentance, in which he mentioned and exposed all the passions of men. Discourse 1.\n\n1. It is always good to remember God, and very good indeed; and what could be better than this? For the remembrance of his judgments provides consolation, as the Prophet says: I remembered your judgments, O Lord, which are from eternity, and I was comforted. How much consolation, then, and comfort and gladness must he receive who always remembers God? As again the same Prophet says: I remembered God, and I was glad. And having come into the enjoyment of the gladness that comes from this remembrance, he could no longer bear to keep anything else in remembrance except God alone, saying: O Lord, I will remember your righteousness only; and again, I will remember your name in every generation and generation. And elsewhere again, more universally, he says: All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord. Do you see how much benefit the remembrance of God provides? Do you see how much strength it provides, so as to draw even the ends of the world to itself? And it not only freed them from idolatry, but also brought about forgetfulness of their very remembrance. For those who have been drawn by the remembrance of God and enlightened and have come to know the true God say concerning vain idols: I will not remember their names with my lips. Did you see the strength of the remembrance of God? Did you see the goodly change? Did you see the praiseworthy migration? Truly this is the change of the right hand of the Most High, that is, of the coming of Christ, who is at the right hand of the Father, through whom all things came to be.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"Λοιπὸν καλῶς ἐν ἀρχῇ τοῦ λόγου εἶπον, ὅτι πάντων τῶν καλῶν κάλλιον τὸ μνημονεύειν Θεοῦ. Ταύτης τῆς μνήμης ἐν πείρᾳ γενόμενος ὁ Προφήτης, καὶ τὴν ἐξ αὐτῆς ὠφέλειαν ἐπιλαβόμενος, πάντων ἡδονῶν τε καὶ τῶν τερπνῶν ὥσπερ ἐπιλαθόμενος, ἕως καὶ τοῦ φαγεῖν τὸν ἄρτον, ἔλεγε· Κύριε, μνησθήσομαι τῆς δικαιοσύνης σου μόνου· καὶ, Οὐ μὴ ἐπιλάθωμαι τῶν δικαιωμάτων σου. Τῆς τοιαύτης μνήμης τὴν ὠφέλειαν καὶ ὁ Ἀπόστολος εὑρὼν καὶ γευσάμενος ἔλεγεν, οὐ πρὸς Τιμόθεον μόνον, ἀλλὰ πρὸς πάντα ἄνθρωπον, Τιμοθέῳ λέγων· Μνημόνευε Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐγηγερμένον ἐκ νεκρῶν. Καὶ ὥσπερ ὁ ἔχων θησαυρὸν ἔν τινι τόπῳ κεκρυμμένον, πᾶσαν ὥραν, ἡμέραν τε καὶ νύκτα ὅλος ὁ νοῦς αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ ἐστι, καὶ ὥσπερ τις σιδηροδέσμιος παραμένει, καὶ οὔτε κἂν βραχὺ τοῦ τόπου ἀφίσταται, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Κύριος εἶπεν, Ὅπου ὁ θησαυρὸς, ἐκεῖ ἐστι καὶ ἡ καρδία ὑμῶν· οὕτω καὶ ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν ἐκείνης τῆς ὡραιότητος καὶ τῆς ἐλεύσεως τοῦ ἐπουρανίου νυμφίου, ἀεὶ αὐτοῦ ἐκείνου μόνου μνημονεύει, ἑλκόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ θείου ἔρωτος καὶ τῆς ἀκορέστου ἐπιθυμίας, ψάλλων ἀεὶ μετὰ τοῦ ἱεροψάλτου Δαυῒδ τὸ, Ἐμνήσθην τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ηὐφράνθην. Τοῦτο καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἐνετείλατο ἡμῖν λέγων· Τοῦτο ποιεῖτε εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν ἀνάμνησιν. Ὁρᾷς πῶς μνημονεύεσθαι θέλει παρ' ἡμῶν αὐτῶν ὁ Κύριος; Μνημονεύσωμεν οὖν φιλόχριστοι τοῦ Θεοῦ πάντοτε, καὶ μὴ ἐπιλαθώμεθα, ἵνα μὴ καὶ ἡμᾶς ὀνειδίσῃ τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, ὅτι Θεὸν τὸν γεννήσαντά σε ἐγκατέλιπες, καὶ ἐπελάθου Θεοῦ τοῦ τρέφοντός σε. Ἀλλὰ τοῦ μὲν μνημονεύειν Θεοῦ μὴ παυσώμεθα, καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μνημονευθῆναι ἡμῶν, αὐτῷ κράζειν μὴ ὀκνήσωμεν·","english":"Furthermore, I said well at the beginning of the discourse that remembering God is better than all good things. The Prophet, having come to experience this remembrance and having grasped the benefit from it, as though forgetting all pleasures and delights—even to the point of eating bread—said: \"Lord, I will remember your righteousness alone\"; and, \"I will not forget your statutes.\" The Apostle also, having found and tasted the benefit of such remembrance, said—not only to Timothy but to every person, speaking to Timothy: \"Remember Christ Jesus, raised from the dead.\" And just as one who has a treasure hidden in some place—every hour, day and night, his whole mind is there, and he remains as though bound in iron chains, and does not depart from the place even a little, as also the Lord said, \"Where your treasure is, there your heart is also\"—so too the one who longs for that beauty and the coming of the heavenly bridegroom always remembers that one alone, drawn by divine love and insatiable desire, always singing with the sacred psalmist David: \"I remembered God, and I was glad.\" This also the Lord commanded us, saying: \"Do this in remembrance of me.\" Do you see how the Lord wishes to be remembered by us? Let us therefore, O lovers of Christ, always remember God, and let us not forget, lest the Holy Spirit also reproach us, saying: \"You abandoned God who begot you, and you forgot God who nourishes you.\" But let us not cease remembering God, and let us not hesitate to cry out to him that we may be remembered:","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":3,"ref":"p3","source":"Μνήσθητι ἡμῶν, Κύριε, ὅταν ἔλθῃς ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ σου. Ὥσπερ δὲ καλὸν μνημονεύειν Θεοῦ διὰ τὴν ἀκόρεστον ἐκείνην εὐφροσύνην, οὕτω πάλιν μέγα κέρδος καὶ ὠφέλειαν ἔχοι ἂν ἡ μνήμη, οὐ μόνον\n\nτῶν τερπνῶν καὶ λοιπῶν χαροποιῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν σκυθρωπῶν καὶ λυπηρῶν. Καὶ γὰρ τῶν τοιούτων ἐννοεῖν βελτιώτερον ἀπεργάζεται τὸν μνήμονα, καὶ σπουδαιότερον γενέσθαι παρασκευάζει. Καὶ ποίων, φησὶ, σκυθρωπῶν; Οὐκ ἀγνοεῖς, ὡς οἶμαι, ἤδη καὶ διδαχθῆναι ζητεῖς; Ἄκουσον ἐκ τῶν πολλῶν ὀλίγα, τοῦ βασανιζομένου πλουσίου οἰκτρὰς φωνὰς πρὸς τὸν φιλόξενον πατριάρχην Ἀβραὰμ γενομένας· ὅστις διὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀσπλαγχνίαν οὐκ ἴσχυσε τὸ δεινὸν ἐκεῖνο καὶ φοβερὸν χάσμα παρελθεῖν, ὅπερ ὤρυξεν αὐτῷ ἡ ἀσπλαγχνία· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῶν πέντε μωρῶν παρθένων, ἅσπερ τὸ ἀνέλεον ὁμοίως ἔξω τοῦ μακαρίου νυμφῶνος ἀποκλεισθῆναι κατεδίκασεν· εἶτα τῶν ἐξ εὐωνύμων πάλιν τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν, τὴν αἰσχύνην, τὴν ἐντροπὴν, καὶ τέλος καὶ ἐπώδυνον ἀπόφασιν, τὸ, Πορεύεσθε ἀπ' ἐμοῦ οἱ κατηραμένοι. Ἐννόει δὲ κἀκεῖνον καὶ μάλιστα τὸν τὰς χεῖρας καὶ πόδας δεσμευθέντα, καὶ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ καὶ ἐνδόξου γάμου μετὰ μεγάλης αἰσχύνης ἐκβληθέντα, καὶ εἰς τὸν ἔκθαμβον καὶ φρικτὸν ἐκεῖνον τόπον ἐξορισθέντα. Ὅπου ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων· οὗ καὶ μόνον ἡ ἀκοὴ βάσανον ἐμποιεῖ. Καὶ γὰρ καὶ τῶν τοιούτων μνημονεύειν, καθὼς προειρήκαμεν, οὐ μικρὸν κέρδος ψυχῆς· τὸ μὲν γὰρ Θεοῦ μνημονεύειν, ὡς ὁ λόγος, εὐφραίνει τὸν μνήμονα, καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ ὑψηλὰ ἕλκει· ἡ δὲ τῶν σκυθρωπῶν μνήμη φόβον ἐπάγει καὶ κατάνυξιν, καὶ ἐναγώνιον καὶ σπουδαῖον καθιστᾷ τὸν ἄνθρωπον.","english":"Remember us, O Lord, when you come in your kingdom. And just as it is good to remember God because of that insatiable gladness, so too the remembrance would bring great gain and benefit, not only of pleasant and other joyful things, but also of gloomy and painful things. For it makes the one who remembers better by thinking on such things, and prepares him to become more earnest. And of what gloomy things, he says? Do you not know, as I think, and do you now seek to be taught? Hear a few out of many: the pitiful cries of the rich man who was tormented, made to the hospitable patriarch Abraham; who through his own mercilessness could not pass over that dread and fearful chasm, which his mercilessness dug for him; and likewise those of the five foolish virgins, whom mercilessness likewise condemned to be shut out of the blessed bridal chamber; then again the reproach of those on the left, the shame, the confusion, and finally the painful sentence, Go from me, you cursed. Consider also that one especially, who was bound hand and foot, and cast out of the royal and glorious marriage with great shame, and exiled to that stupefying and dreadful place. Where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth; the mere hearing of which produces torment. For to remember such things also, as we have said before, is no small gain for the soul; for to remember God, as the discourse says, gladdens the one who remembers and draws him to lofty things; but the remembrance of gloomy things brings fear and compunction, and makes a man earnest and zealous.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":4,"ref":"p4","source":"Τίς γὰρ ἐπὶ μνήμης φέρων τὴν ἀπαραμύθητον ἐκείνην ἀποτυχίαν, οὐ κατανύγεται καὶ ὀδύρεται καὶ συντρίβει τὴν ἑαυτοῦ καρδίαν; τίς οὐ βρέχει δάκρυσι καὶ τὴν κλίνην καὶ τὸ στῆθος καὶ ὅλον τὸ σῶμα, ἐννοῶν τὴν τοσαύτην ζημίαν, καὶ μάλιστα μὴ ἔχουσαν παντελῶς παρηγορίαν ἢ παράκλησιν; Πᾶσα γὰρ ἀστοχία ἢ ναυάγιον πρὸ τελευτῆς ἔχει διόρθωσιν καὶ παραμυθίαν. Εὑρίσκει γὰρ ἕκαστος ἀντὶ ὧν ἀπώλεσεν ἕτερα τῆς πανηγύρεως τέως ἱσταμένης, καὶ παραμυθεῖται τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θλῖψιν. Ἡ δὲ μετὰ τὴν ἔξοδον ἀποτυχία ἀπαραμύθητον ἔχει πένθος· ἀνακαλέσασθαι γὰρ ὃ ἀπώλεσεν οὐ δύναται. Κἂν γὰρ ταράσσηται, κἂν στενάζῃ, κἂν ὀδύρηται, ἢ καὶ δάκρυα ἐκχέῃ, κἂν φωνὰς ὑψηλὰς ἐπαφίῃ, πάντα ἀπρόσδεκτα. Διὰ τοῦτο πᾶσα Γραφὴ βοᾷ, διὰ τοῦτο πᾶσα σπουδὴ ἐνομοθετήθη, διὰ τοῦτο ἀγῶνες, διὰ τοῦτο προσευχαὶ καὶ δεήσεις, διὰ τοῦτο κλαυθμοὶ καὶ ἀγρυπνίαι, διὰ τοῦτο χαμευνίαι, τῆξις σώματος, ξηροφαγίαι, ἀποταγαὶ, παρθενία, πτωχεία πνεύματος, διακονίαι, ἐλεημοσύναι, ἀναχώρησις κόσμου· διὰ τοῦτο ὑπομονὴ τῶν ἐπερχομένων, καὶ ἀνοχὴ ἀτιμίας καὶ μίσους καὶ διωγμῶν καὶ ἐμπτυσμάτων καὶ ῥαπισμάτων καὶ πάντων τῶν πειρασμῶν, κατὰ μίμησιν τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ Στεφάνου καὶ λοιπῶν ἁγίων, ἵνα μὴ ἐν τῇ ὥρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἀστοχήσωμεν τὴν δεινὴν ἀστοχίαν, καὶ μάλιστα ἔχοντες ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν πόλιν καὶ πᾶν ὀχύρωμα τὰς τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν ἐντολάς. Ποίας; Τὸ, Ἐγὼ μεθ' ὑμῶν εἰμι· τὸ, Οὐκ ἀφήσω ὑμᾶς ὀρφανούς· καὶ, Μὴ φοβεῖσθε ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποκτενόντων τὸ σῶμα· Τηρεῖτε τὴν κεφαλήν· Παντὸς γὰρ ἀνδρὸς ἡ κεφαλὴ ἐγώ εἰμι· Τηρεῖτε τὴν κεφαλήν· Μὴ ἐπιλάθησθε Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ·","english":"For who, calling to mind that inconsolable failure, is not pierced with compunction and laments and crushes his own heart? Who does not drench with tears both his bed and his breast and his whole body, as he considers so great a loss, and especially one that has no consolation or comfort at all? For every failure or shipwreck before death has correction and consolation. For each person finds, in place of what he lost, other things, while the festival still stands, and consoles his own affliction. But the failure after the departure has inconsolable mourning; for he cannot call back what he lost. For even if he is disturbed, even if he groans, even if he laments, or even pours out tears, even if he sends up loud cries, all is unacceptable. For this reason all Scripture cries out, for this reason all earnestness was established by law, for this reason struggles, for this reason prayers and supplications, for this reason weepings and vigils, for this reason sleeping on the ground, wasting of the body, dry foods, renunciations, virginity, poverty of spirit, ministries, almsgivings, withdrawal from the world; for this reason endurance of what comes upon us, and tolerance of dishonor and hatred and persecutions and spittings and blows and all temptations, in imitation of the Lord and Stephen and the rest of the saints, so that in that hour we may not fail with that dreadful failure, and especially since we have the commandments of our Lord as stronger than every city and every fortress. Which ones? \"I am with you\"; \"I will not leave you orphans\"; and, \"Do not fear those who kill the body\"; \"Guard the head\"; for \"the head of every man is I\"; \"Guard the head\"; \"Do not forget the Lord God.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":5,"ref":"p5","source":"Ἔχοντες τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν ἐν τῷ σώματι καὶ αἵματί μου· Τοῦτο ποιεῖτε εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν ἀνάμνησιν καὶ ὑμῶν σωτηρίαν. Ὁρᾷς πῶς ἐντέλλεται μὴ ἐπιλανθάνεσθαι αὐτοῦ, καὶ πῶς προτρέπεται ἀεὶ μνημονεύειν αὐτοῦ, καθὼς καὶ προείρηται; Διὰ τοῦτο λέγω πρὸς πάντα ἄνθρωπον, καθάπερ καὶ Παῦλος Τιμοθέῳ γράφων· Τέκνον Τιμόθεε, ἀεὶ μνημόνευε καὶ μηδέποτε ἐπιλάθῃ Θεοῦ τοῦ τρέφοντός σε, μηδὲ ἐπιλανθάνου πάσας τὰς ἀνταποδόσεις αὐτοῦ. Μνημόνευε δὲ συνεχῶς μάλιστα τὰς φοβερὰς ἐκείνας τοῦ δικαστοῦ φωνὰς, ἃς πρὸς τοὺς ἐξ εὐωνύμων ἀσπλάγχνους ἐφθέγξατο, ἔτι δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὰς μωρὰς πέντε παρθένους· ὁμοίως καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἀνηλεῆ ἐκεῖνον πλούσιον διὰ τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἀβραὰμ διελέχθη· πρὸς τούτοις δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἄλλον πλούσιον καὶ πλεονέκτην τὸν τὰς\n\nἀποθήκας πλατύναντα εἰς ἄμετρον ἔκτασιν. Ἆρα ἐπίστασαι ὁποία πρὸς ἀμφοτέρους αὐτῶν ἀπόφασις δέδοται; ἆρα μνημονεύεις τὰς τοιαύτας σκυθρωπὰς φωνάς; ἆρα κατέχεις κἂν βραχύ τι ῥῆμα ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου ἐκ τῶν ἀναγνωσθέντων θείων ῥημάτων; Καὶ εἰ ταῦτα οὐ γινώσκεις, τί λοιπὸν συνάγῃ εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, εἰπέ μοι; οὐχὶ ἵνα ἀκούσῃς τὰς φωνὰς, σπεύδεις συνάγεσθαι καὶ ὠφεληθῆναι; Εἰ μὲν οὖν διὰ τοῦτο συνάγῃ ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ, ἡ σπουδή σου ἐπαινετὴ, καὶ πληροῦται ἐπὶ σὲ τὸ τοῦ Κυρίου λόγιον· Τὰ ἐμὰ πρόβατα τῆς φωνῆς μου ἀκούει. Οἶδα γὰρ πολλοὺς συνερχομένους, οὐ διὰ Θεὸν, οὐδὲ δι' ἀκρόασιν τῶν ἁγίων αὐτοῦ ῥημάτων. Τοὺς μὲν γὰρ ὁρῶ νυστάζοντας, τοὺς δὲ ὧδε κἀκεῖσε μετεωριζομένους, ἄλλους πρὸς φίλους διαλεγομένους·","english":"Having the redemption of your souls in my body and blood: Do this in remembrance of me and for your salvation. Do you see how he commands that he not be forgotten, and how he urges us always to remember him, just as it was also foretold? Therefore I say to every man, just as Paul also, writing to Timothy: Timothy, my child, always remember and never forget God who nourishes you, nor forget all his recompenses. And remember continually, above all, those fearful utterances of the Judge, which he spoke to the merciless on his left, and further also to the five foolish virgins; likewise also he conversed through the patriarch Abraham with that pitiless rich man; and in addition to these, also with the other rich man and covetous man who\n\nwidened his storehouses into immeasurable extent. Do you know what sentence was given against both of them? Do you remember such gloomy utterances? Do you hold even a small word in your heart from the divine words that have been read? And if you do not know these things, tell me, what do you gather in the church for the rest? Is it not to hear the utterances that you hasten to assemble and to be benefited? If then you gather in the church for this reason, your zeal is praiseworthy, and the Lord's saying is fulfilled upon you: My sheep hear my voice. For I know many who come together, not for God's sake, nor for the hearing of his holy words. For I see some nodding off, others lifted up here and there, others conversing with friends;","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":6,"ref":"p6","source":"καὶ ὁ μὲν Κύριος ἡμῶν πρὸς ἡμᾶς διαλέγεται εὐσπλάγχνῳ φωνῇ λέγων, Ὑμεῖς φίλοι μού ἐστε· ἡμεῖς δὲ ἐκεῖνον καταλιπόντες λαλοῦντα, τοὺς φίλους ἐντιμοτέρους ἐποιησάμεθα. Ἑτέρους ὁρῶ ἀτάκτως θορυβοῦντας, καὶ ταῦτα τολμῶσιν ἔτι τοῦ Θεοῦ λαλοῦντος πρὸς ἡμᾶς. Ὢ τῆς βαθείας ἀφροσύνης, ὢ τῆς ἀνιάτου ἀναισχυντίας, ὢ τῆς χαλεπῆς παραφρονήσεως. Βασιλεὺς ὁμοιοπαθὴς ἡμῖν πολλάκις διαλέγεται πρὸς τὸν λαὸν, καὶ πάντες ὥσπερ ἄψυχοι στῆλαι ἄφθογγοι μένουσιν, ἄχρις ἂν καταπαύσῃ ὁ λαλῶν. Καὶ οὐ μόνον τοῦτο, ἀλλὰ καὶ γράμματα αὐτοῦ πολλάκις ἀναγινωσκόμενα, ἐν τόπῳ πολλὴν ἡσυχίαν ποιοῦσι τοῖς περιεστῶσιν ἀκροαταῖς, ὡς δοκεῖν μὴ εἶναι ἐκεῖσέ τινα, ἀλλ' ἢ μόνον τὸν ἀναγινώσκοντα τὰ τοῦ βασιλέως γράμματα. Ἐνταῦθα δὲ προφῆται καὶ ἀπόστολοι καὶ πατριάρχαι, οἱ πάντων βασιλέων ὑψηλότεροι, διαλέγονται, τί βούλεται Θεὸς καὶ πῶς θεραπεύεται, καὶ ποίῳ τρόπῳ δυνησόμεθα διαπερᾶσαι τὴν χαλεπὴν θάλασσαν τοῦ βίου· ἡμεῖς δὲ λῆρον τὰ ῥήματα ἡγούμεθα, καὶ μᾶλλον ἀργοῖς ῥήμασι προσκαρτεροῦντες, ἀνάπαυσιν λογιζόμεθα. Ἆρα θεραπεύεται ἐπὶ τούτοις ὁ Κύριος, ὁ εἰπὼν πρὸς τοὺς ὁμιλοῦντας πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἁγίους, Ὑμεῖς ἐστε τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσμου; Καὶ τί λέγω περὶ λειτουργῶν καὶ δούλων;","english":"And our Lord speaks to us with a compassionate voice, saying, You are my friends; but we, leaving him while he speaks, have made our friends more honored. I see others disorderly clamoring, and they dare these things while God is still speaking to us. O the deep foolishness, O the incurable shamelessness, O the grievous madness. A king, subject to the same passions as we are, often converses with the people, and all remain like lifeless pillars, voiceless, until the speaker stops. And not only this, but his letters too, often read aloud, produce great silence among the hearers standing around, so that it seems there is no one there except the one reading the king's letters. But here prophets and apostles and patriarchs, who are higher than all kings, converse—what God wills and how he is served, and in what manner we shall be able to cross the grievous sea of this life; but we consider their words nonsense, and rather, clinging to idle words, we reckon it rest. Is the Lord then served by these things, he who said to the saints who converse with us, You are the light of the world? And why do I speak about ministers and servants?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":7,"ref":"p7","source":"Αὐτοῦ τοῦ πάντων Δεσπότου καὶ βασιλέως τῆς δόξης, ὃν φρίττει πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις, καὶ ὑμνεῖ πᾶσα πνοὴ, διὰ τῶν ἀχράντων Εὐαγγελίων διαλεγομένου πρὸς ἡμᾶς, νουθετοῦντος, ἀπειλοῦντος, παρακαλοῦντος, προσκαλουμένου, τὴν ἀπλήρωτον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀκήρατον βασιλείαν δωρουμένου, οὕτως αὐτῷ προσέχομεν, ὡς ὅτε ἀσθενὴς ἢ πτωχὸς ἄνθρωπος πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀδολεσχεῖ διαλεγόμενος, καὶ οὐδὲ κἂν ὡς φίλου τινὸς προσέχομεν. Ὄντως Μάταιοι υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ὄντως εὔκαιρον πρὸς τοὺς τοιούτους εἰπεῖν, Μωροὶ, πότε φρονήσετε; Ἁρμόσει δὲ πρὸς αὐτοὺς καὶ ἕτερος τοῦ προφήτου στίχος ὁ λέγων, Ἐξέλειπον ἐν ματαιότητι αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτῶν· τὸν γὰρ ἀγγελικὸν ὕμνον καὶ τὰ θεῖα ῥήματα ἀποβαλόντες καὶ λῆρον ἡγησάμενοι, ἠγάπησαν ἀργολογίαν, καὶ προσελάβοντο ὕπνον. Ὕπνος δὲ τῶν τοιούτων οὐχ ὁ ὕπνος οὗτος, ἀλλ' ἡ ῥᾳθυμία ὁ χαλεπὸς ὕπνος τῆς ψυχῆς, ὁ ζημιωτὴς τῶν χαυνοτέρων, ἡ τυφλότης τῆς καρδίας, ἡ συλήτρια τῶν θησαυρῶν τοῦ Πνεύματος· περὶ οὗ ὁ Προφήτης ἐδέετο τοῦ Θεοῦ λέγων· Φώτισον τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου, μή ποτε ὑπνώσω εἰς θάνατον· περὶ οὗ καὶ Σολομὼν ἐντρεπτικώτερον ἔγραψε λέγων, Πότε ἐξ ὕπνου ἐγερθήσῃ; οἳ καὶ ἀκούσονται τὸ, Τί ἑστήκατε ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, ἤγουν ὅλον τὸν βίον ἀργοί; Οἱ τοιοῦτοι καὶ ἐν ταῖς συνάξεσιν ἀσύντακτοι, καὶ ἐν ἑορταῖς ἀνέορτοι, καὶ ἐν ταῖς εὐχαῖς ἀνευλόγητοι, ἐν τῇ μνήμῃ τῶν ἁγίων ἀμνημόνευτοι, ἐν τῷ τὴν εἰρήνην διδόναι ἀδόκιμοι, ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἀνέτοιμοι, ἐν τῇ μεταλήψει ἀνάξιοι, ἐν τῇ κοιμήσει τῆς ἐξόδου τεταραγμένοι καὶ ἔμφοβοι καὶ κατηφεῖς καὶ σκοτεινοὶ καὶ ἀπεγνωσμένοι·","english":"When the very Master of all and King of glory, whom all creation trembles before and every breath praises, speaks to us through the undefiled Gospels, admonishing, threatening, exhorting, calling us, granting his kingdom that cannot be filled and is undefiled, we attend to him as when a weak or poor man prattles on conversing with us, and we do not attend even as to a friend. Truly the sons of men are vain; truly it is fitting to say to such people, Fools, when will you understand? Another line of the prophet will also fit them, the one that says, Their days failed in vanity; for having cast off the angelic hymn and the divine words and reckoned them nonsense, they loved idle talk and took up sleep. But the sleep of such people is not this sleep, but rather slackness, the grievous sleep of the soul, the plunderer of the more relaxed, the blindness of the heart, the despoiler of the treasures of the Spirit; concerning which the Prophet pleaded with God, saying, Enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep unto death; concerning which Solomon also wrote more shamefully, saying, When will you arise from sleep? They too will hear, Why have you stood all the day, that is, all your life, idle? Such people are also disorderly in the assemblies, unfeastly at feasts, unblessed in prayers, unmindful in the commemoration of the saints, unapproved in giving the peace, unprepared in the church, unworthy in partaking, and at the sleep of departure troubled and fearful and downcast and dark and despairing.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":8,"ref":"p8","source":"περὶ ὧν ὁ Προφήτης προεκήρυξεν, ὅτι Ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἀπολοῦνται πάντες οἱ διαλογισμοὶ αὐτῶν.\n\nβʹ. Εἶδες πόσην ζημίαν περιέχει ἡ ῥᾳθυμία; Ὁ πικρὸς ὕπνος, καὶ τῶν ψυχῶν\n\nλάκκος, καὶ τῶν χαυνοτέρων συνόμιλος καὶ σύσκηνος καὶ διδάσκαλος. Διὸ καὶ ὁ Παῦλος διὰ τὴν πολλὴν χαυνότητα καὶ μαλακίαν γυναῖκας ὀνομάζει, καὶ οὐδὲ γυναῖκας ἁπλῶς, ἀλλὰ γυναικάρια σεσωρευμένα· ἔθος γὰρ ταῖς τοιαύταις γυναιξὶ συγκουστουδιάζειν καὶ συνεδριάζειν καὶ φλυαρεῖν τὰ μὴ δέοντα αὐταῖς, ἃς οὐ ποιμαίνει ὁ Θεός· Οὐ γὰρ προέθεντο τὸν Θεὸν ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν· Πάντοτε μανθάνοντα, καὶ μηδέποτε εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἀληθείας ἐλθεῖν δυνάμενα. Ὁ δὲ ἀγαπῶν τὸν Κύριον ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ, καὶ ἔχων τὴν αὐτοῦ μνήμην ἀλάθητον, ἅμα ἀκούσει τοῦ κήρυκος ἐπὶ τὴν φοβερὰν ἐκείνην προσκαλουμένου ζωοποιὸν θεοσφαγίαν, σπουδαίως ἀνίσταται· καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ἐννοεῖ μή που κατά τινος ἔχει, ἣ ἄλλος κατ' αὐτοῦ· καὶ τοῦτο κατορθώσας τὸ ἐμπόδιον τῆς σωτηρίας, καὶ ἑαυτὸν ἐλευθερώσας καὶ λύσας ἀπὸ τοῦ τοιούτου χαλεποῦ δεσμοῦ, τρέχει πρὸς τὴν τῶν θείων λογίων ἀκρόασιν· ὃν τρόπον ἔλαφος ἐπὶ τὰς πηγὰς τῶν ὑδάτων, οὕτως ἐν πίστει καὶ πόθῳ τρέχων καταλαμβάνει τὸν πνευματικὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ λιμένα. Καὶ συσφίγξας ἑαυτὸν καὶ συναγαγὼν ἑαυτοῦ τὴν διάνοιαν, καὶ πᾶσαν βιωτικὴν τέως ἀποῤῥιψάμενος μέριμναν, ἑτοιμάζει τὰς ἀκοὰς πρὸς ἀκρόασιν τῆς ἀγγελικῆς μελῳδίας· εἶτα τοῦ ἱεροψάλτου Δαυῒδ βοῶντος, Δεῦτε καὶ ἴδετε τὰ ἔργα τοῦ Θεοῦ. Δεῦτε, τέκνα, ἀκούσατέ μου, φόβον Κυρίου διδάξω ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἀγαλλίασιν, θυσίαν δικαιοσύνης καὶ ἀναφοράν·","english":"concerning which the Prophet foretold: In that day all their thoughts shall perish.\n\n2. Do you see how great a loss sloth entails? Bitter sleep, and the pit of souls, and the companion, messmate, and teacher of the more relaxed. Therefore Paul also, because of their great slackness and softness, calls them women, and not simply women, but silly women laden; for it is the habit of such women to lie down together and sit together and prattle about things that are not fitting for them, whom God does not shepherd: For they did not set God before them: Always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. But the one who loves the Lord with his whole heart, and keeps his remembrance unerring, as soon as he hears the herald summoning to that fearful life-giving sacrifice of God, rises eagerly; and first he considers whether he holds anything against anyone, or another against him; and having set right this obstacle to salvation, and freed and loosed himself from such a grievous bond, he runs to the hearing of the divine oracles; as a deer runs to the springs of waters, so running in faith and longing he reaches the spiritual harbor of God. And having gathered himself together and collected his mind, and for the time having cast off every worldly care, he prepares his ears for the hearing of the angelic melody; then, when the sacred psalmist David cries out, Come and see the works of God. Come, children, hear me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord, and exultation, a sacrifice of righteousness and an offering.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":9,"ref":"p9","source":"δεῦτε ἴδετε ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τὸν σιτευτὸν μόσχον, καὶ τὸν ἀμνὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ θυόμενον, καὶ μὴ θανατούμενον· Μεγαλύνατε τὸν Κύριον, καὶ ὑψώσωμεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό. Γεύσασθε καὶ ἴδετε, ὅτι χρηστὸς ὁ Κύριος. Εἶτα Ἡσαΐας, ἡ χελιδὼν τῆς Ἐκκλησίας, μεγάλῃ τῇφωνῇ κράζει· Ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη. Εὐφραίνεσθε οἱ οὐρανοὶ, καὶ ἀγαλλιάσθω ἡ γῆ, ὅτι ἠλέησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ. Βάδιζε, λαός μου, εἰς τὸ ἀκροατήριον, ἀκούσατε τί ὁ Κύριος διὰ τοῦ στόματός μου προστάσσει· Εἴπατε, ἀδελφοὶ, τοῖς μισοῦσιν ὑμᾶς καὶ τοῖς βδελυσσομένοις, ἵνα τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου δοξασθῇ. Εἶτα ὁ διάδοχος Ἡσαΐου Παῦλος, ἡ λύρα τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, ὁ τέττιξ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας, τὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ κατοικητήριον ἀνυψούμενος ἐπὶ τοῦ ἄμβωνος λαμπρᾷ τῇ φωνῇ κράζει ἐν παῤῥησίᾳ· Τὸ Πάσχα ἡμῶν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἐτύθη Χριστός. Ὃς ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν σοφία ἀπὸ Θεοῦ, δικαιοσύνη καὶ ἁγιασμὸς καὶ ἀπολύτρωσις. Διὰ τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἐλάβομεν. Δοκιμαζέτω δὲ ἄνθρωπος ἑαυτὸν, καὶ οὕτως ἐκ τοῦ ἄρτου ἐσθιέτω, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ποτηρίου πινέτω. Τί δέ ἐστι, Δοκιμαζέτω τις ἑαυτόν; Τουτέστιν, ἐννοείτω τὰ γεγραμμένα, καὶ ἐρευνάτω ἑαυτὸν, μήποτε ἀνέτοιμός ἐστι τῆς ὑποδοχῆς τοῦ σώματος καὶ αἵματος τοῦ Κυρίου, καὶ οὐχ ἡτοίμασεν ἑαυτὸν ὥσπερ ὁ Συμεὼν, καὶ ὥσπερ Ἄννα ἡ προφῆτις, καὶ ὥσπερ ἐν σινδόνι καθαρᾷ ὁ Ἰωσήφ. Ἐὰν οὕτως ἑαυτὸν ἡτοίμασας, αὐτῷ θαῤῥῶν, πίστει καὶ φόβῳ πρόσελθε βοῶν καὶ λέγων, Σὺ εἶ ὁ Χριστὸς ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ζῶντος· καὶ οὐ κατακριθήσῃ ὁ σπουδάσας ποιῆσαι ἑαυτὸν ἄξιον.","english":"Come, see upon the altar the fatted calf, and the Lamb of God being sacrificed and not put to death. Magnify the Lord, and let us exalt his name together. Taste and see that the Lord is good. Then Isaiah, the swallow of the Church, cries out with a loud voice: As a sheep he was led to the slaughter. Rejoice, you heavens, and let the earth be glad, for God has had mercy on his people. Walk, my people, into the hearing-place; hear what the Lord commands through my mouth: Say, brothers, to those who hate you and to those who abhor you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified. Then Paul, the successor of Isaiah, the lyre of the Holy Spirit, the cicada of the Church, being lifted up as the dwelling-place of Christ upon the ambo, cries out with a bright voice in boldness: Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. He who became for us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Through his blood we received the forgiveness of sins. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. And what is this, Let a man examine himself? That is, let him consider what has been written, and let him search himself, lest he be unprepared for the reception of the body and blood of the Lord, and has not prepared himself like Simeon, and like Anna the prophetess, and like Joseph in a clean linen shroud. If you have so prepared yourself, trusting in him, come near with faith and fear, crying out and saying, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God; and you will not be condemned, you who have taken care to make yourself worthy.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","ref":"John 1:29","text":"The English carries the scriptural phrase “the lamb of god”, which matches John 1:29. The match is on the English draft; check the Coptic before quoting the verse."}]},{"i":10,"ref":"p10","source":"Ὁ γὰρ ἐσθίων καὶ πίνων ἀναξίως, κρῖμα ἑαυτῷ ἐσθίει καὶ πίνει. Ὁρᾶτε, ἀδελφοὶ, μή τις κακὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ ἀποδώσῃ. Ὁ ἥλιος μὴ ἐπιδυέτω ἐπὶ τῷ παροργισμῷ ὑμῶν. Βλέπετε πῶς περιπατεῖτε. Ὁρᾷς πόσα ἀγαθὰ καὶ ὁποίαν χαρὰν δέχεται ὁ ἀγαπῶν τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ δι' αὐτὸν συναγόμενος; Ἄκουε πάλιν Ἰωάννου κράζοντος· Παιδία, ἐσχάτη ὥρα ἐστὶ, καὶ ὁ ἀντίχριστος ἔρχεται· καὶ νῦν ἀντίχριστοι πολλοὶ γεγόνασιν. Ἀλλὰ Μὴ παντὶ πνεύματι πιστεύετε, ὅτι πολλοὶ πλάνοι ἐξῆλθον εἰς τὸν κόσμον. Εἶτα ὁ ἀδελφόθεος Ἰάκωβος παρελθὼν εἰς μέσον λέγει· Πᾶσαν χαρὰν ἡγήσασθε, ἀδελφοί μου, ὅταν πειρασμοῖς περιπέσητε ποικίλοις. Μακάριος ἀνὴρ, ὃς ὑπομενεῖ πειρασμὸν, ὅτι δόκιμος γενόμενος λήψεται τὸν ἀμαράντινον στέφανον τῆς ζωῆς, ὃν ἐπηγγείλατο ὁ Κύριος τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν. Μετὰ τούτων Πέτρος ὁ ὑψηλὸς ἀναδραμὼν κράζει· Ἀγαπητοὶ, πάντων τὸ τέλος ἤγγικε· γρηγορήσατε καὶ νήψατε εἰς\n\nπροσευχάς. Ἀποθέμενοι οὖν πᾶσαν κακίαν καὶ πάντα δόλον καὶ ὑποκρίσεις καὶ φθόνους καὶ πάσας καταλαλιὰς, ὡς ἀρτιγένητα βρέφη, τὸ λογικὸν ἄδολον γάλα ἐπιποθήσατε. Εἶτα τοῖς ἀναγνώσμασι διαδέχεται ἡ οὐράνιος λαλιὰ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ αἶνος, τῶν ἄνω δυνάμεων ἡ τραγῳδία· καθὼς ὁ μακάριος Ἰωάννης ἑώρακέ τε καὶ ἔγραψε λέγων· Ἤκουσα τῶν ἄνω δυνάμεων ὡς φωνὴν ὄχλων πολλῶν, καὶ ὡς φωνὴν βροντῶν ἰσχυρῶν λεγόντων, Ἀλληλούϊα.","english":"For whoever eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks judgment upon himself. Take heed, brothers, that no one repays evil for evil. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. See how you walk. Do you see how many good things and what joy the one who loves God receives, and is gathered together for his sake? Hear again John crying out: Little children, it is the last hour, and the antichrist is coming; and even now many antichrists have arisen. But do not believe every spirit, because many deceivers have gone out into the world. Then James, the brother of the Lord, coming into the midst, says: Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations. Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having become approved he will receive the unfading crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. With these, Peter the exalted, running up, cries out: Beloved, the end of all things has drawn near; be watchful and sober for prayers. Having therefore laid aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all slanders, as newborn infants, long for the rational, guileless milk. Then, after the readings, the heavenly speech of the angels succeeds, the praise of God, the tragedy of the powers above; just as the blessed John saw and wrote, saying: I heard the powers above as the voice of many crowds, and as the voice of mighty thunders saying, Alleluia.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":11,"ref":"p11","source":"Μετὰ τοῦτο ὅτε λοιπὸν προκηρυχθῇ πάντα, καὶ καταπαύσουσιν οἱ πρόδρομοι καὶ λειτουργοὶ κηρύσσειν καὶ μηνύειν τοῦ Δεσπότου τὴν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἄμβωνος ἄνοδον, τῶν ἱερέων τέως καθεζομένων, καὶ τῶν λειτουργῶν σιωπησάντων, καὶ τῆς ὥρας καταφθανούσης τοῦ ἀναφανῆναι ἐφ' ὑψηλοῦ τόπου τὸν ἀκόρεστον Δεσπότην καὶ Κύριον τῆς δόξης, καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ τὰς ἀκοὰς ἑτοιμάζοντος πρὸς ἀκρόασιν τῶν θεολέκτων καὶ ζωοποιῶν ῥημάτων, καὶ ὠθούντων ἑαυτοὺς, καὶ τῷ ἄμβωνι πλησιαζόντων, καὶ σιγῆς πολλῆς γενομένης, ὅτε λοιπὸν οὐκ ἔξεστί τινα καθέζεσθαι, οὐκ ἀρχιερέα, οὐχ ἱερέα, οὐ βασιλέα ἕνεκεν τῆς ὑπερβαλλούσης δόξης τοῦ ἀναφαινομένου, κράζουσιν ἐν δυνάμει οἱ τὴν τῶν ἀγγέλων ἐπέχοντες τάξιν, λέγοντες πρὸς πάντας μικρούς τε καὶ μεγάλους· Ὀρθοὶ πάντες ἀκούσωμεν τί λαλήσει Κύριος ὁ Θεός· ὀρθοὶ ἀκούσωμεν τί κελεύσει, καὶ τί βούλεται ὁ Βασιλεὺς τῶν βασιλέων· ὀρθοὶ ἀκούσωμεν ῥήματα καὶ ἐντολὰς ζωῆς αἰωνίου· ἡ γὰρ ἐντολὴ αὐτοῦ ζωὴ αἰώνιός ἐστι. Τὸ δὲ, Ὀρθοὶ, τί ἄρα σημαίνει ἢ καταδέχεται; Οἶδα γὰρ, ὅτι πολλοὶ τὴν ἐκ τῶν θρόνων ἔγερσιν νοοῦσι καὶ μόνον· ἐγὼ δὲ πλεῖόν τι ὑπονοῶ ἔχειν βάθος τὸ ῥῆμα, καὶ οὐ μόνον τὴν ἐκ τῶν θρόνων ἀνόρθωσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ μυστικώτερόν τι σημαίνειν νόημα· τουτέστιν, ὀρθοὶ τῇ πίστει, ὀρθοὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ, ὀρθοὶ τοῖς λογισμοῖς, τῇ ἀγάπῃ, τῇ ὁμολογίᾳ, ὀρθοὶ πρὸς πᾶσαν ἐντολὴν τοῦ Κυρίου, ὀρθοὶ ἄνω πρὸς τὸν οὐρανόν. Ὡς λογικοὶ τὰ ἄνω φρονεῖτε, καὶ μὴ ὡς τὰ κτήνη κάτω νεύοντες.","english":"After this, when everything has been proclaimed beforehand, and the forerunners and ministers have ceased to proclaim and announce the Master's ascent to the ambo, while the priests for the time being sit, and the ministers have fallen silent, and the hour has arrived for the insatiable Master and Lord of glory to appear in a high place, and the people prepare their ears for hearing the God-spoken and life-giving words, and push themselves forward and draw near to the ambo, and great silence falls, when at last no one is permitted to sit—not high priest, not priest, not king—because of the surpassing glory of the one who appears, those who hold the rank of angels cry out with power, saying to all, small and great: Stand upright, all of us, and let us hear what the Lord God will speak; stand upright and let us hear what he will command, and what the King of kings wills; stand upright and let us hear words and commandments of eternal life; for his commandment is eternal life. But what then does \"stand upright\" signify or admit? For I know that many understand it only as rising from their seats; but I suspect the word has some deeper meaning, and signifies not only rising up from seats but also something more mystical: that is, upright in faith, upright in heart, upright in thoughts, in love, in confession, upright toward every commandment of the Lord, upright upward toward heaven. As rational beings, set your minds on things above, and do not, like cattle, bend downward.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":12,"ref":"p12","source":"Εἶτα πάντων ἀναστάντων καὶ ἐν φόβῳ ἱσταμένων, ἄκουσαι τί ἄρα Κύριος διηγήσεται ἡμῖν ἐν Γραφῄ, καθὼς προεσήμανεν ὁ προφήτης Δαυῒδ, τί κελεύσει, τί ἐντέλλεται, τί βούλεται ὁ φοβερὸς ἐν βουλαῖς. Εἶτα ἀνυψοῦται καὶ ὁ πολυτίμητος μαργαρίτης καὶ προσδοκία τῶν ἐθνῶν, ἡ φωταγωγία τοῦ κόσμου, ἡ χάρις ἡ ἐκ τῶν χειλέων χυθεῖσα τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Θεοῦ, ἡ ἄνεσις τῶν θλιβομένων, ἡ λύσις τῶν δεδεμένων, ἡ λύτρωσις τῶν ἁμαρτίων, ἡ ἀνόρθωσις τῶν πεπτωκότων, τὸ ἰατρεῖον τῶν νοσούντων, ἡ ἐλπὶς τῶν ἀπηλπισμένων, ἡ βοήθεια τῶν καταπονουμένων, ἡ χαρὰ τῶν μετανοούντων, ἡ καταφυγὴ τῶν διωκομένων, ὁ νόμος τῆς ἐλευθερίας τῶν καταδυναστευομένων ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου, ἡ σαγήνη ἡ μὴ θανατῶσα, ἀλλὰ ζωοποιοῦσα τοὺς ἐν τῇ ἁλμυρᾷ τοῦ κόσμου θαλάσσῃ βυθιζομένους, αἱ πηγαὶ τῶν ὑδάτων, τὰ θεμέλια τῆς οἰκουμένης, οἱ ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσου τοῦ ἁγίου στόματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐκπορευόμενοι τέσσαρες ποταμοί. Καὶ ἀνοιχθέντων τῶν θείων καὶ σεπτῶν καὶ ἀχράντων Εὐαγγελίων, κράζουσι πάλιν μετὰ φόβου οἱ ἐπίγειοι ἄγγελοι, οἱ ἱερεῖς, φημὶ, πρὸς τὸν λαὸν, Προσχῶμεν· τουτέστιν, Ὧδε ὁ νοῦς ἑκάστου, ὧδε αἱ καρδίαι πάντων, μηδεὶς μετεωριζέσθω, μηδεὶς περιβλεπέσθω, μηδεὶς ψιθυριζέσθω. Προσχῶμεν, Θεὸς ὁ λαλῶν· προσχῶμεν, οὐρανοῦ γὰρ καὶ γῆς καὶ πάσης κτίσεως ὁ Βασιλεὺς πρὸς ἡμᾶς διαλέγεται· προσχῶμεν, ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ μέγας τροφὴν ζωῆς ψυχῶν διανέμει· προσχῶμεν, ὁ τὸν θάνατον φονεύσας, καὶ τὸν κόσμον νικήσας, χαρὰν ἀπλήρωτον καὶ βασιλείαν μὴ ἔχουσαν τέλος ἐπαγγέλλεται ἡμῖν τοῖς ἀναξίοις. Ὢ τῆς ἀνεικάστου φιλανθρωπίας! ὢ τῆς ἀνεκδιηγήτου ἀγαθότητος!","english":"Then, when all have risen and stand in fear, hear what the Lord will declare to us in Scripture, as the prophet David foretold, what he will command, what he will enjoin, what the one who is fearful in counsels wills. Then is lifted up also the precious pearl and the expectation of the nations, the light-bringer of the world, the grace poured out from the lips of our Savior God, the relief of the afflicted, the release of the bound, the redemption of sins, the raising up of the fallen, the healing-place of the sick, the hope of those in despair, the help of the oppressed, the joy of those who repent, the refuge of the persecuted, the law of freedom of those tyrannized by the stranger, the net that does not put to death but gives life to those sunk in the salt sea of the world, the fountains of waters, the foundations of the inhabited world, the four rivers flowing from Paradise out of the holy mouth of Christ. And when the divine and venerable and undefiled Gospels have been opened, again the earthly angels, the priests, I say, cry out with fear to the people, Let us attend: that is, Here be the mind of each, here the hearts of all; let no one be lifted up, let no one look about, let no one whisper. Let us attend: God is speaking; let us attend: for the King of heaven and earth and all creation is conversing with us; let us attend: the great Shepherd is distributing the food of life for souls; let us attend: the one who has slain death and conquered the world promises to us who are unworthy a joy that cannot be filled and a kingdom that has no end. O the incomparable love for humanity! O the goodness that cannot be told!","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":13,"ref":"p13","source":"Ὅτι αὐτὸς ὁ ἀόρατος, ὁ ἀχώρητος, ὁ πάντων Δημιουργὸς καὶ Δεσπότης, ὃν φρίσσει ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ καὶ ἡ θάλασσα, ᾧ κάμπτει πᾶν γόνυ ἐπουρανίων καὶ ἐπιγείων καὶ καταχθονίων, οὐ δι' ἀγγέλου ἢ διὰ τῶν Σεραφεὶμ ἢ δι'\n\nἄλλου τινὸς λειτουργοῦ, ἀλλ' αὐτὸς δι' ἑαυτοῦ διαλέγεται πρὸς ἡμᾶς τοὺς ἀναξίους, πληρῶν τὴν προφητείαν Ἡσαΐου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος· Οὐ πρέσβυς, οὐκ ἄγγελος, ἀλλ' αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος ἥξει καὶ σώσει ἡμᾶς. Ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Δαυῒδ περὶ τούτου προεκήρυξε λέγων, ὅτι Αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος διηγήσεται ἐν γραφῇ λαῶν. Ὅθεν ὁ ἱερὸς ἀπόστολος καθαπτόμενος ἡμῶν ἐντρεπτικώτερον ἔγραψε, λέγων· Διὰ τοῦτο δεῖ περισσοτέρως ἡμᾶς προσέχειν διὰ τὸν λαλοῦντα Κύριον. Εἰ γὰρ ὁ δι' ἀγγέλου λαληθεὶς λόγος ἐγένετο βέβαιος, καὶ πᾶσα παράβασις καὶ παρακοὴ ἔλαβεν ἔνδικον μισθαποδοσίαν, πῶς ἡμεῖς ἐκφευξόμεθα τηλικαύτης ἀμελήσαντες σωτηρίας, ἥτις ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα λαλεῖσθαι διὰ τοῦ Κυρίου, ὑπὸ τῶν ἀκουσάντων εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐβεβαιώθη. Διὰ τοῦτο δεῖ περισσοτέρως ἡμᾶς προσέχειν. Διὰ τί ἄρα, εἰπὲ, Παῦλε; Διότι οὐ δι' ἀγγέλου οὐδὲ δι' ἄλλων τινῶν δυνάμεων διαλέγεται πρὸς ἡμᾶς, καθὼς καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἀρχαίους, ἀλλ' αὐτὸς ὁ τῶν ἀγγέλων καὶ πάσης πνοῆς Κύριος διαλέγεται καὶ διηγεῖται καὶ διαγγέλλει τὸ πρόσταγμα τοῦ Πατρὸς, ὥσπερ τις πένης. Τίς οὐ φρίξει; τίς οὐ θαυμάσει; τίς δὲ οὐ κατανυγῇ ἐν τῇ τοσαύτῃ ἀγαθότητι καὶ συγκαταβάσει τοῦ φιλανθρώπου;","english":"For he himself, the invisible, the uncontainable, the Creator and Master of all things, whom heaven and earth and sea tremble before, to whom every knee bends of things in heaven and on earth and under the earth, not through an angel or through the Seraphim or through any other minister, but himself through himself converses with us who are unworthy, fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah the prophet who says: Not an elder, not an angel, but the Lord himself will come and save us. Likewise David also proclaimed this beforehand, saying: The Lord himself will declare in the writing of the peoples. Therefore the holy apostle, rebuking us more sharply, wrote, saying: For this reason we must pay closer attention, because of the Lord who speaks. For if the word spoken through an angel proved firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which, having begun to be spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard. For this reason we must pay closer attention. Why then, tell me, Paul? Because it is not through an angel nor through any other powers that he converses with us, as he did with those of old, but the Lord himself of the angels and of every breath converses and declares and announces the Father's command, like some poor man. Who will not tremble? Who will not marvel? And who will not be pierced with compunction at such great goodness and condescension of the lover of mankind?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":14,"ref":"p14","source":"γʹ. Ἆρα ταῦτα λέγοντες πείσομεν ὑμᾶς, ἢ κἄν τινας ἐκ τοῦ πλήθους, περισσοτέρως προσέχειν τῷ λαλοῦντι Θεῷ; Πιστεύω εἶναι πολλοὺς ἐξ ὑμῶν προσέχοντας ἐμπόνως καὶ ἀμετεωρίστως· οἵτινες καὶ ἀκούσονται τοῦ Κυρίου πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα λέγοντος, ὅτι Καὶ οὗτοι ἐπίστευσαν, ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας· Πάτερ, τήρησον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί σου.\n\nΟἱ δὲ μὴ πιστεύσαντες ἀκούσουσιν, Ὑμεῖς οὐκ ἐστὲ ἐκ τῶν προβάτων τῶν ἐμῶν· τὰ γὰρ ἐμὰ πρόβατα τῆς φωνῆς ἀκούει τῆς ἐμῆς. Ἆρα οὐκ ἐφρίξατε τοιαῦτα ἀκούοντες; ἕως πότε βαρυκάρδιοι; ἕως πότε νήπιοι ταῖς φρεσίν; ἕως πότε οὐ προσέχετε τῷ λαλοῦντι, καὶ στήκετε ὡς πρέπει Χριστιανοῖς, ἄνω τὰς καρδίας ἔχοντες, ἀλλ' ἐποιήσατε βουστάσιον καὶ πραιτώριον καὶ καπηλεῖον τὴν ἐκκλησίαν; Βλέπετε μή πως ἐφ' ὑμᾶς πληρωθῇ τὸ φοβερὸν τοῦ Ἀποστόλου ῥητὸν τὸ λέγον· Καὶ καθὼς οὐκ ἐδοκίμασαν τὸν Θεὸν ἔχειν ἐν ἐπιγνώσει, παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς εἰς ἀκαθαρσίαν. Ἡμεῖς δὲ καταλιπόντες τοὺς τὴν καρδίαν ἀπολωλεκότας, περὶ ὧν ὁ Σολομὼν ὡς ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ Κυρίου ἔλεγεν, ὅτι Ἐλάλουν, καὶ οὐκ ἠκούετε, ἐξέτεινον λόγους, καὶ οὐ προσείχετε, ἐπὶ τὸ προκείμενον ἐπανέλθωμεν, καὶ τῷ ἄμβωνι προσπελάσωμεν, καὶ ἀκούσωμεν τί λαλήσει ἐν ἡμῖν Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς, ὁ μέγας εὐαγγελιστὴς, ὁ τὸ οὐράνιον τοῦ Πατρὸς πρόσταγμα διαγγέλλων ἡμῖν ἐπὶ γῆς. Δῆλον δὲ, ὅτι λαλήσει εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, ὡς Θεὸς εἰρήνης·","english":"3. Will we persuade you by saying these things, or even some from the multitude, to pay closer attention to God who speaks? I believe there are many of you paying attention earnestly and without distraction; who will also hear the Lord saying to the Father, that These also believed that you sent me: Father, keep them in your name.\n\nBut those who did not believe will hear, You are not of my sheep; for my sheep hear my voice. Were you not seized with trembling on hearing such things? How long, hard-hearted? How long, infants in mind? How long do you not pay attention to the one speaking, and stand as befits Christians, having your hearts on high, but you have made the church a cattle-stall and a praetorium and a tavern? See lest the fearful saying of the Apostle be fulfilled upon you, which says: And just as they did not see fit to have God in knowledge, he gave them over to uncleanness. But let us, leaving behind those who have lost their heart, concerning whom Solomon spoke as in the person of the Lord, that I spoke, and you did not listen, I stretched out words, and you did not pay attention, let us return to what lies before us, and let us approach the ambo, and let us hear what the Lord God will speak in us, the great evangelist, who proclaims to us on earth the heavenly command of the Father. And it is clear that he will speak peace upon his people, as the God of peace.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":15,"ref":"p15","source":"ἢ προσκαλεῖται πρὸς αὐτὸν ὡς ἀγαθὸς τοὺς καταπονουμένους, καὶ ἀντιλαμβάνεται ὡς βασιλεὺς δίκαιος τοὺς κλαίοντας εἰς μετάνοιαν μακαρίζει, ταλανίζει τοὺς ἐν ὑποκρίσει βιοῦντας, μακαρίζει τοὺς γρηγοροῦντας, καὶ ταλανίζει τοὺς ῥᾳθύμους· δοξάζει τοὺς εὐσπλάγχνους ὡς εὔσπλαγχνος, καὶ μακαρίζει τοὺς ἐλεήμονας ὡς ἐλεήμων Μακάριοι οἱ ἐλεήμονες, ὅτι αὐτοὶ ἐλεηθή60.687 σονται Ὡς δὲ ἀλλότριος τῆς ἀσπλαγχνίας καὶ ξένος τῆς ἀπηνείας, καὶ ἀμέτοχος πάσης κακίας, τὴν ἀσπλαγχνίαν ἀπωθεῖται καὶ ἐξορίζει, καὶ ἀποστρέφεται τοὺς ἀπηνεῖς καὶ ἀνελεήμονας καὶ ἀμεταδότους· καὶ συνερεῖ λόγον μετ' αὐτῶν, ποτὲ μὲν δι' ἑαυτοῦ, ποτὲ δὲ διὰ τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἀβραὰμ ἢ καὶ δι' ἑτέρων ἁγίων. Τοὺς μέλλοντας τότε ἐξ εὐωνύμων εὑρίσκεσθαι αὐτὸς ἐγκαλεῖ καὶ ὀνειδίζει, ὡς δυναμένους ἐλεῆσαι, καὶ μὴ ἐλεήσαντας. Οὐ γὰρ παρὰ ἀδυνάτων ἀπαιτεῖ ὁ κριτὴς τὸ χρέος τοῦ ἐλέους· οἱ γὰρ τοιοῦτοι ἄλλων ἐνδεεῖς τυγχάνουσιν· ἀλλὰ παρὰ τῶν ἀφθόνως τὰς τοῦ Θεοῦ δωρεὰς εἰληφότων, καὶ τοῦ δεδωκότος ἐπιλαθομένων, καὶ καυχωμένων ὡς μὴ λαβόντων, πρὸς τούτους","english":"Or does he call to himself, as one who is good, those who are worn down, and does he, as a righteous king, take up those who weep? He blesses those who repent, he pronounces woe upon those who live in hypocrisy, he blesses those who are watchful, and he pronounces woe upon the slack. He glorifies the compassionate as one who is compassionate, and he blesses the merciful as one who is merciful: \"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.\" And as one who is a stranger to mercilessness and alien to cruelty, and a partaker of no evil, he thrusts away and banishes mercilessness, and he turns away from the cruel and unmerciful and those who do not give a share; and he will reason a word with them, sometimes through himself, sometimes through the patriarch Abraham or also through other saints. Those who are then to be found on the left he himself accuses and reproaches, as those who were able to show mercy and did not show mercy. For the judge does not demand the debt of mercy from those who are unable; for such people are themselves in need of others; but from those who have received the gifts of God without grudging, and have forgotten the one who gave, and boast as though they had not received—against these","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":16,"ref":"p16","source":"ὀνειδίζει καὶ ἐγκαλεῖ λέγων· Ὢ ἀνόητοι καὶ ἄσπλαγχνοι, οὐκ ἐγὼ ὑμῖν δέδωκα τὰ ὑμῶν πάντα; τί γὰρ εἰσηνέγκατε εἰς τὸν κόσμον; οὐ γυμνοὶ ἐγεννήθητε, καὶ πάλιν γυμνοὶ ἐξέρχεσθε; οὐκ ἠκούσατε τοῦ Ἀποστόλου κράζοντος, ὅτι Οὐδὲν εἰσηνέγκαμεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον, δῆλον ὅτι οὐδὲ ἐξενεγκεῖν τι δυνάμεθα; Ἐννόησον, ἄφρον, ὅτι οὐδὲν ἴδιον κέκτησαι, εἰ μὴ τὴν προαίρεσιν, εἴτε ἀγαθὴν, ὡς ὁ Θεὸς εἶπεν, εἴτε ἀπηνῆ, ὡς σὺ ἠθέλησας.\n\nΤὸ ἀργύριον καὶ τὸ χρυσίον ἐμόν ἐστιν. Ὁ οὐρανὸς θρόνος ἐμὸς, ἡ γῆ ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν μου· τὰ πέρατα ἐν τῇ χειρί μου, τὰ σύμπαντα ἐμοὶ δουλεύει· ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ πᾶσαι τῶν ἀγγέλων στρατιαὶ, ἡ γῆ καὶ ἡ θάλασσα, καὶ πᾶσα κτίσις καὶ πᾶσα πνοὴ ἐμή ἐστι, καὶ ἐμοὶ πείθεται καὶ ὑπακούει καὶ δουλεύει. Σὺ μόνος ὁ ἄσπλαγχνος ἀλλότριος εὑρέθης τῆς ἐμῆς φιλανθρωπίας. Εἰπέ μοι, ἄφρον, τίς τὴν γῆν σοι ἐφήπλωσε; τίς τὰ φυτὰ κατεπύκνωσε; τίς τοῖς σπέρμασι παρέχει τὴν αὔξησιν; τίς δίδωσι τῇ γῇ ὑετὸν ἐν καιρῷ τοῦ ἀλοητοῦ, καὶ ἀνέμους ἐπιτηδείους τῷ λικμητῇ; τίς τὰ τοιαῦτα μεγέθη τῶν βοῶν ὑπέταξε, καὶ ἔπεισεν αὔλακας ἑλκῦσαι, καὶ ἅλωνα συνθλᾶσαι, καὶ ἁμάξας περιφέρειν; οὐ ταῦτα πάντα ἀφθόνως παρέσχον, καθὼς τοῖς ἀξίοις, καὶ ὑμῖν, βουλόμενος ἔχειν ὑμᾶς χορηγούς μου καὶ οἰκονόμους ἐκ τῶν ἐμῶν δωρεῶν, ἵνα ἐν καιρῷ πονηρῷ καὶ ἐν ἡμέραις λιμοῦ οἰκονομήσητέ με; Καὶ ἐπείνασα, καὶ οὐκ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν. Ἐγὼ δέδωκα, καὶ ἐγὼ ἐπείνασα· ἐκ τῶν ἐμῶν ἐζήτησα, καὶ οὐκ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν. Καὶ οὐκ ᾔτησα περισσοτέρας δαπάνας οὐδὲ τρυφὴν οὐδὲ ἐφόδια, ἀλλὰ φαγεῖν διὰ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἀνάγκην·","english":"He reproaches and accuses them, saying: O foolish and pitiless ones, did I not give you all that is yours? For what did you bring into the world? Were you not born naked, and again do you not depart naked? Have you not heard the Apostle crying out, that we brought nothing into the world, and it is clear that neither can we carry anything out? Consider, fool, that you possess nothing of your own except your free choice—whether good, as God said, or harsh, as you yourself willed.\n\nThe silver and the gold are mine. Heaven is my throne, the earth the footstool of my feet; the ends of the earth are in my hand, all things serve me; heaven and all the hosts of the angels, the earth and the sea, and every creature and every breath are mine, and they obey me and submit to me and serve me. You alone, pitiless one, have been found a stranger to my love for humanity. Tell me, fool, who spread out the earth for you? Who made the plants grow thick? Who gives the seeds their increase? Who gives the earth rain in the season of threshing, and winds suited to the winnower? Who subjected such great herds of oxen, and persuaded them to draw furrows, and to tread the threshing floor, and to haul wagons? Did I not provide all these things abundantly, as to the worthy, and to you also, wishing to have you as my providers and stewards from my own gifts, so that in an evil time and in days of famine you might minister to me? And I was hungry, and you did not give me to eat. I gave, and I was hungry; I sought from what was mine, and you did not give me to eat. And I did not ask for excessive expenses, nor for luxury, nor for provisions, but only to eat, because of the pressing necessity.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":17,"ref":"p17","source":"καὶ οὐκ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν. Καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἐμαῖς δωρεαῖς πολλάκις τρυφώντων ὑμῶν, καὶ θορυβούντων καὶ εὐφραινομένων ἐν μαλακοῖς ἐνδύμασιν, ἐπέστην τῇ θύρᾳ ῥάκη περιβεβλημένος, παγετῷ συνεχόμενος, λιμῷ τηκόμενος, οὔτε κράζειν ἰσχύων ἐκ τῆς βίας τοῦ λιμοῦ· καὶ οὐκ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν. Καὶ οὐκ ᾔτησα οἶνον, οὐ κρέα, οὐ σίκερα, εἰ μὴ ἄρτον ψιλόν· καὶ οὐκ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν. Ὢ ἀπήνεια καὶ ὠμότης χαλεπὴ καὶ σκότος βαθύ· πῶς οὐκ ἐμνημονεύσατε τὸν δεδωκότα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα; πῶς οὐκ ἐνεθυμήθητε τοῦ δικαίου Ἰὼβ κράζοντος, Γυμνὸς ἐξῆλθον ἐκ κοιλίας μητρός μου, γυμνὸς καὶ ἀπελεύσομαι; Οὐδέποτε ἠκούσατε τοῦ ἱερέως ἐπὶ τῆς μυστικῆς τραπέζης βοῶντος πρός με, καὶ εὐχαριστοῦντός μοι καὶ λέγοντος, Τὰ σὰ ἐκ τῶν σῶν σοι προσφέρομεν; Ὑμεῖς δὲ καυχᾶσθε, ὡς μὴ λαβόντες· ἐβούλεσθε ἐν τῇ εὐθηνίᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἀσάλευτοι διαμεῖναι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Καλῶς ὁ προφήτης τῶν τοιούτων πρόσωπον ἀναλαβὼν ἐθριάμβευσεν αὐτῶν τὴν νόσον λέγων· Ἐγὼ δὲ εἶπα ἐν τῇ εὐθηνίᾳ μου, Οὐ μὴ σαλευθῶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Ναὶ, ἄρτον οὐκ ἔδωκας διὰ τὸ μὴ γνωρίσαι σε τὸν δεδωκότα Θεόν· κἂν ὑπὸ στέγην διὰ τί μὴ ὑπεδέχου; καὶ τοῦτο γὰρ μισθὸς μέγας ἐστίν· ἢ ἀσθενοῦντα μὴ ἐπεσκέψου; οὐ γὰρ μὴ παρεῖδον τὰ βήματά σου· ἢ ἐν φυλακῇ με ὄντα, οὐ παρεγένου, καὶ ἐχαρίσω λόγον τῶν παρακλήσεων; καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀπώλεσας τὸν μισθόν σου· ἢ καὶ περιέβαλές με γυμνητεύοντα· ἢ διψῶντα ἐπότισας ποτήριον ὕδατος; πόσην ἀνταπόδοσιν ἀνελήψω παρ' ἐμοῦ;","english":"And you did not give me anything to eat. And often, while you were reveling in my gifts, and making a din and rejoicing in soft garments, I stood at the door clothed in rags, gripped by frost, wasting away with hunger, not even able to cry out because of the violence of the famine; and you did not give me anything to eat. And I did not ask for wine, nor meat, nor strong drink, but only plain bread; and you did not give me anything to eat. O harshness and cruel savagery and deep darkness! How did you not remember the one who gave you your possessions? How did you not call to mind righteous Job crying out, Naked I came out from my mother's womb, and naked shall I depart? Did you never hear the priest at the mystical table crying out to me, and giving thanks to me and saying, We offer to you your own from your own? But you boast as though you had not received; you wished to remain unshaken in that prosperity forever. Well did the prophet, taking up the person of such people, triumph over their disease, saying: But I said in my prosperity, I shall never be shaken. Yes, you did not give bread because you did not recognize God as the giver; and why did you not receive me under your roof? For this too is a great reward; or why did you not visit me when I was sick? For I will certainly not overlook your steps; or when I was in prison, did you not come and grant me a word of comfort? And you will certainly not lose your reward; or did you clothe me when I was naked? Or did you give me a cup of water when I was thirsty? How great a recompense will you receive from me?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":18,"ref":"p18","source":"Ὑμεῖς δὲ ταῦτα πάντα δυνάμενοι ποιῆσαι, οὐκ ἐποιήσατε, Ἀλλ' ἐματαιώθητε ἐν διαλογισμοῖς, καὶ ἐσκοτίσθη ἡ ἀσύνετος ὑμῶν καρδία, καὶ ἐστερήσατε ἑαυτοὺς τὴν ζωὴν τὴν αἰώνιον, καὶ ἐναυαγήσατε ναυάγιον μὴ ἔχον διόρθωσιν.\n\nΤί λοιπὸν εἴπω πρὸς ὑμᾶς; ἆρα τὸ, Δεῦτε; Ἀλλὰ τῇ ἀπηνείᾳ οὐ προσαρμόζει τοιαύτη φωνή· τὸ γὰρ, Δεῦτε οἱ εὐλογημένοι, ἄλλοις ἐδόθη. Πάντες οὖν οἱ ἐκ δεξιῶν μου παριστάμενοι ταύτης τῆς φωνῆς ἠξιώθησαν, ταύτην τὴν δόξαν ἐκληρονόμησαν, ταύτην τὴν εὐφροσύνην ἐκέρδησαν, ταύτην τὴν βασιλείαν ἥρπασαν οἱ ἐλεήμονες, οἱ εὔσπλαγχνοι. Εἰς τὰς αἰωνίους γὰρ μονὰς ἀπηνεῖς κληρονομίαν οὐκ\n\nἔχουσιν, εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν παλάτιον ἄσπλαγχνος οὐκ εἰσέρχεται, εἰς τὸν οὐράνιον παστὸν ἀνελεήμων οὐκ ἀξιοῦται, εἰς τὰς ἄνω μονὰς ἀμετάδοτος οὐ κατοικεῖ· ἀλλὰ μόνοι οἱ ἐλεήμονες, μόνοι οἱ εὔσπλαγχνοι, οἱ ξενοδόχοι, οἱ ὀρφανοτρόφοι, χηρῶν καὶ ἀδυνάτων οἱ ἐπισκεπτηταὶ, οἱ τῶν καταπονουμένων ἀντιλήπτορες, οἱ τῶν θλιβομένων προστάται, οἱ τῶν χειμαζομένων πάρεδροι, τῶν ἐνδεομένων οἱ εὔφοροι, τῶν ἀπηλπισμένων οἱ παρήγοροι, τῶν νοσούντων οἱ διάκονοι, τῶν κακοπαθούντων οἱ παραμονάριοι, τῶν πενθούντων οἱ παραμυθήτορες, τῶν ὀλιγοψύχων οἱ παρακλήτορες, οἱ τῶν ἐν πικραῖς δουλείαις πατέρες, οἱ τῶν ἐν περιστάσει βοηθοὶ, οἱ τῶν ἐν ἀνάγκαις πρόθυμοι, οἱ τῶν δεδεμένων συνδεδεμένοι, οἱ τῶν πλανωμένων ὁδηγοὶ, οἱ τῶν γυμνῶν σκεπασταὶ, οἱ τῶν χρεωστούντων πληρωταί· καὶ ἵνα συντόμως εἴπω, οἱ πάντων τῶν ἐνδεομένων καὶ αἰτούντων οἰκονόμοι, οἱ τοιοῦτοι τοῦ ἐμοῦ παλατίου οἰκήτορες, καὶ τῶν αἰωνίων ἀγαθῶν κληρονόμοι.","english":"But you, who were able to do all these things, did not do them, but you became vain in your reasonings, and your foolish heart was darkened, and you deprived yourselves of eternal life, and you suffered shipwreck, a shipwreck that has no remedy.\n\nWhat then am I to say to you? Is it, \"Come\"? But such a voice does not suit your cruelty; for \"Come, you blessed,\" was given to others. All those, then, who stand at my right hand were deemed worthy of this voice, they inherited this glory, they gained this gladness, they seized this kingdom—the merciful, the compassionate. For the cruel have no inheritance in the eternal dwellings; the merciless does not enter my palace; the unmerciful is not deemed worthy of the heavenly bridal chamber; the ungenerous does not dwell in the dwellings above; but only the merciful, only the compassionate, those who show hospitality to strangers, those who nurture orphans, those who visit widows and the helpless, those who come to the aid of the oppressed, those who stand as protectors of the afflicted, those who stand by those tossed by storms, those who are generous to the needy, those who console the despairing, those who minister to the sick, those who remain beside those who suffer hardship, those who comfort those who mourn, those who encourage the fainthearted, those who are fathers to those in bitter slavery, those who are helpers to those in peril, those who are eager for those in necessity, those who are bound together with the bound, those who are guides to the wandering, those who clothe the naked, those who pay the debts of those who owe; and to speak briefly, those who are stewards of all the needy and those who ask—such people are the inhabitants of my palace and the heirs of eternal goods.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":19,"ref":"p19","source":"Τῶν τοιούτων ἐστὶν οἰκητήριον ἡ ἄνω πόλις· περὶ τῶν τοιούτων παρεκάλεσα τὸν Πατέρα μου, ὅτι Θέλω, Πάτερ, ἵνα, ὅπου εἰμὶ ἐγὼ, καὶ αὐτοί εἰσιν, ἵνα θεωρῶσι τὴν δόξαν μου· πρὸς τοὺς τοιούτους εἶπον, καὶ ἀεὶ λέγω· Ὑμεῖς φίλοι μού ἐστε. Πρὸς ὑμᾶς δὲ ἄρα τί εἴπω· ἆρα ἐλεήσω; Ἀλλ' οὐχ ὁρῶ ἐν ὑμῖν καρπὸν ἐλέους. Ἆρα οἰκτειρήσω; Ἀλλ' οὐ βλέπω ἐν ὑμῖν σπλάγχνα οἰκτιρμῶν. Ἆρα συγχωρήσω; Ἀλλὰ μεῖζον τῆς ἀφέσεως τὸ σφάλμα. Οὐ γὰρ μόνον τὰ σπλάγχνα ἐκλείσατε αἰτοῦντός μου ἄρτον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἃ περιεβαλόμην ῥάκη ἡρπάξατε καὶ ἐγυμνώσατέ με· καὶ τὸν ἄρτον, ὅν μοι ἄλλος ἐλεήμων ἔδωκεν, ἐκ τοῦ στόματός μου ἡρπάξατε. Ποσάκις ἦλθον εἰς τὴν θύραν σου, καὶ εἶδον τράπεζαν πεπληθυμμένην, καὶ ὄγκον βρωμάτων, καὶ κύνας πολλοὺς τρεφομένους, καὶ ἐπὶ κλινῶν ἀνακειμένους· καὶ ἐπ' ἐμοὶ τὰς θύρας ἀπεκλείσατε καὶ ἀπεπέμψατε ἄτιμον, καὶ οὐδὲ κἂν ὡς ἕνα τῶν κυναρίων, κλάσματος ἄρτου ἠξιώσατε; ποσάκις τοῦ καλυβίου με ἐξηλάσατε παγετοῦ ἐπικειμένου, καὶ τοὺς ἵππους ὑμῶν ἐνῳκίσατε, καὶ οὐκ ἐνεθυμήθητε, ὅτι οὐ διὰ κύνας καὶ ἵππους ἐγὼ ἐσταυρώθην, καὶ τὸ αἷμά μου ἐξέχεα; Τῶν κτηνῶν ἀντέχεσθε, τῶν κυνῶν φροντίζετε, τῶν ἵππων ἐπιμελεῖσθε, καὶ τὰ ἐμὰ μέλη, τοὺς πτωχοὺς καὶ ἀδυνάτους φθειρομένους λιμῷ καὶ δίψει καὶ παγετῷ ὁρῶντες, γελᾶτε καὶ βδελύσσεσθε, καὶ τὰς ὄψεις ἀποστρέφεσθε, καὶ μάλιστα τοὺς ὑπὸ τῆς ἱερᾶς νόσου κατακειμένους; ὧν τὰ μέλη πρὸ τοῦ θανάτου τῇ γῇ παραδίδοται, ὧν τὰ σώματα τοῖς πολλοῖς σκοτεινὰ καὶ βδελυκτὰ νομίζονται· ἀλλ' ἡ ψυχὴ ἐκλάμψει ὡς ὁ ἥλιος.","english":"The heavenly city is the dwelling place of such people. It was concerning such people that I entreated my Father, saying, \"Father, I will that where I am, they also may be, that they may behold my glory.\" To such people I said, and always say, \"You are my friends.\" But what then shall I say to you? Shall I show mercy? But I do not see in you the fruit of mercy. Shall I have compassion? But I do not see in you bowels of compassion. Shall I forgive? But your offense is greater than forgiveness. For you not only closed your heart against me when I asked for bread, but you also snatched away the rags with which I was clothed and stripped me naked; and the bread that another merciful person gave me you snatched from my mouth. How often did I come to your door and see a table heaped high, and a mass of food, and many dogs being fed, and people reclining on couches; and yet you shut your doors against me and sent me away dishonored, and did not deem me worthy even of a crumb of bread, as you would one of the little dogs? How often did you drive me from my hut when the frost was upon me, and stable your horses, and not consider that I was not crucified for the sake of dogs and horses, and that I poured out my blood? You cling to your beasts, you care for your dogs, you take thought for your horses; but when you see my members—the poor and the weak—wasting away with hunger and thirst and frost, you laugh and turn away in disgust and avert your eyes, and especially from those laid low by the sacred disease? Their limbs are given over to the earth before death, their bodies are considered by many to be dark and disgusting; but the soul will shine like the sun.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":20,"ref":"p20","source":"Ὑμεῖς δὲ ἐτρυφήσατε, ἐσπαταλήσατε, ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἀπελάβετε τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἐν τῇ ζωῇ ὑμῶν. Νῦν δὲ τί εἴπω πρὸς ὑμᾶς; ἆρα οὐκ ἠκούσατε, ὅτι κρίσις ἡτοίμασται ἡ μέλλουσα τοῖς μὴ ποιήσασιν ἔλεος; Ναὶ, οὐκ ἠλεήσατε, ἀλλὰ τῇ ἀσπλαγχνίᾳ ἐδουλεύσατε. Διὰ τί καὶ ὅπερ εἶχεν ὁ πτωχὸς ἀφηρπάσατε; Ἄρα ὁ μὴ ἐλεῶν κολάζεται διότι οὐ μετέδωκεν· ὁ δὲ καταπονῶν καὶ ἁρπάζων τὰ ἄλλων, τί παθεῖται; Ἆρα τί εἴπω πρὸς τὴν ἀπάνθρωπον ὑμῶν προαίρεσιν; Ὁρῶ γὰρ μεῖζον τῆς ἀφέσεως τὸ σφάλμα· ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν ἰατρείαν τὸ τραῦμα κατεσκεύασται· ἡ ἀποτυχία ὑμῶν παραμυθίαν οὐκ ἔχει, τὸ ναυάγιον ὑμῶν ἀδιόρθωτον, ἡ πληγὴ ἀθεράπευτος, ἡ νόσος ἀνίατος, τὰ παραπτώματα ὑμῶν ἀπάρτι ἀσυγχώρητα. Οὐκ ἔτι γὰρ μετάνοια, οὐκ ἔτι παράκλησις ἰσχύει, οὐκ ἔτι δακρύων ὄφελος ἐγκλημάτων ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν ἐμοῦ οὐκ ἐμνημονεύσατε· τῶν ἀποστόλων οὐκ ἠκούσατε, τὰς ἁγίας μου Γραφὰς ἐβδελύξασθε, πεινῶντά με οὐκ ἠλεήσατε· ἀκούσατε λοιπὸν τὴν ὀδυνηρὰν καὶ ἁρμόζουσαν φωνὴν, ἢν ὑμῶν ἡ ἀσπλαγχνία προεξένησε· Πορεύεσθε ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, οἱ κατηραμένοι, εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον. δʹ. Εἴδετε ἀπόφασιν χαλεπὴν καὶ ὀδυνηρᾶν; εἴδετε ἀποτυχίαν μὴ ἔχουσαν παντελῶς παραμυθίαν; εἴδετε ζημίαν τὴν ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν ζημίαν, ἠκούσατε τὴν φρικτὴν","english":"But you lived in luxury and self-indulgence; you received your good things in your life. And now what shall I say to you? Did you not hear that a judgment is prepared, which is to come upon those who have not shown mercy? Yes, you showed no mercy, but you were slaves to heartlessness. Why did you even snatch away what the poor man had? If the one who does not show mercy is punished because he did not share, what will he suffer who oppresses and plunders the goods of others? What then shall I say to your inhuman disposition? For I see the offense greater than forgiveness; the wound has been made beyond all healing; your failure has no consolation, your shipwreck is beyond repair, the blow is incurable, the disease is without remedy, your transgressions from now on are unforgivable. For no longer does repentance, no longer does entreaty avail, no longer is there any profit in tears; from now on you have not remembered my commandments; you did not listen to the apostles, you loathed my holy Scriptures, you did not show mercy to me when I was hungry. Hear now the painful and fitting voice, which your heartlessness has brought forth beforehand: Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire. Do you see the harsh and painful sentence? Do you see the failure that has no consolation at all? Do you see the loss that is beyond every loss? You have heard the dreadful","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":21,"ref":"p21","source":"τῶν ἀσπλάγχνων ἀποδημίαν; ἠκούσατε τὸ κατοικητήριον τῶν μὴ ἐλεούντων; ἔγνωτε ποῦ ἐκπέμπονται οἱ ἀπηνεῖς; ἐμάθετε εἰς ποίαν χώραν μακρὰν ἀποδημοῦσιν οἱ καταπονοῦντες καὶ θλίβοντες τοὺς ἀδυνάτους; Βούλεσθε πάλιν ἀκοῦσαι εἰς ποίαν ἀνάπαυσιν καὶ τρυφὴν ἀπέρχονται· Εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ ἡτοιμασμένον τῷ διαβόλῳ καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις αὐτοῦ. Ἄσπλαγχνοι, φρίξατε καὶ ἐνδύσασθε σπλάγχνα οἰκτιρμῶν· ἀνελεήμονες τρομάξατε καὶ μάθετε ἐλεεῖν, τύραννοι ἰλιγγιάσατε καὶ παύσασθε ἀπὸ τῶν πονηριῶν ὑμῶν· ἅρπαγες, πτήξατε καὶ ἐπὶ ἅρπαγμα μὴ ἐπιποθῆτε. Πάντες ἐννοῶμεν τὴν φοβερὰν ὥραν τοῦ λογοθέτου, καὶ ἕκαστος ἀποστρέψωμεν ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ ἡμῶν τῆς πονηρᾶς· μιμησώμεθα τοὺς Νινευΐτας, καὶ γενώμεθα ἕτοιμοι, ὡς ὁ Κύριος ἐνετείλατο. Εἶχον ἂν εἰπεῖν καὶ φανερῶσαι καὶ περὶ τοὺς ἐν ἀσωτίᾳ τοὺς χιτῶνας μολύναντας, καὶ μετ' αἰσχύνης τοῦ βασιλικοῦ γάμου καὶ τῆς χαρᾶς ἐκείνης καὶ δόξης ἐκβαλλομένους εἰς τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον, ὅπου ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων. Ἀλλ' ἀποδώσωμεν τέως τὰ περὶ τῶν ἀσπλάγχνων τὰ ἀκόλουθα· ἔτι γὰρ ὑπολείπεται ἡ περὶ αὐτῶν τραγῳδία. Καὶ γὰρ καὶ αἱ πέντε μωραὶ παρθένοι παρὰ τῆς αὐτῆς ἀσπλαγχνίας ἀπεκλείσθησαν, οὐχὶ δὲ διὰ τὴν παρθενίαν· παρθένοι γὰρ ἐτύγχανον· οὐ διὰ νηστείαν, οὐ δι' ἀγρυπνίαν οὐδὲ διὰ ψαλμῳδίας ὑστέρησιν, οὐ διὰ σκληραγωγίας ἢ τήξεως σώματος ἔλλειψιν· πάντα γὰρ ταῦτα κατώρθωσαν ἐν πολλῷ ἀγῶνι, καὶ κόπους πολλοὺς ἐπεδείξαντο, καὶ τὸ βάρος τῆς ἡμέρας καὶ τὸν καύσωνα ἐβάστασαν· ἀλλὰ δι' ἀσπλαγχνίαν.","english":"The departure of the merciless? Have you heard the dwelling-place of those who show no mercy? Do you know where the harsh are sent away? Have you learned into what a far country they depart who wear down and oppress the weak? Do you wish again to hear into what rest and luxury they go? Into the fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Merciless ones, shudder and clothe yourselves with bowels of compassion; pitiless ones, tremble and learn to show mercy; tyrants, reel and cease from your wickedness; robbers, cower and do not long for plunder. Let us all consider the fearful hour of the Judge, and let each of us turn from his evil way; let us imitate the Ninevites, and let us be ready, as the Lord commanded. I could also speak and make plain concerning those who in prodigality have defiled their garments, and who with shame are cast out from the royal wedding and that joy and glory into the outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. But for now let us set forth what follows concerning the merciless; for the tragedy concerning them still remains. For indeed the five foolish virgins were shut out because of the same mercilessness, and not because of their virginity—for they were virgins; not because of fasting, nor vigil, nor any lack of psalm-singing, nor because of austerity or the wasting away of the body—for they accomplished all these things in great struggle, and displayed many labors, and bore the burden of the day and the scorching heat—but because of mercilessness.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":22,"ref":"p22","source":"Αὕτη γὰρ ἡ μήτηρ πάντων τῶν κακῶν, ἡ γεννήτρια τοῦ μίσους, ἡ τὸν Θεὸν καὶ Πατέρα παροξύνουσα, ἡ τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἀποδιώκουσα. Ἀσπλαγχνία, ἡ τὸν Χριστὸν, τὸν πρᾶον καὶ γαληνὸν καὶ τῆς εἰρήνης χορηγὸν καὶ ἀόργητον ὡς ὀργιζόμενον ἀποδεικνύουσα κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον· Τότε λαλήσει πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐν ὀργῇ αὐτοῦ. Τότε, πότε; Δηλονότι ὅταν μετὰ πολλῆς θλίψεως καὶ λύπης λαλήσει πρὸ αὐτοὺς, Πορεύεσθε ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, οἱ κατηραμένοι. Εἶδες οἵων ἀγαθῶν πρόξενος ἡ ἀσπλαγχνία γίνεται; Ταύτης γὰρ καρπὸς μισαδελφία, ταύτης γεώργημα φιλαργυρία, ταύτης ἡ θεραπεία τὸ ἀμετάδοτον, ταύτης ἡ πανήγυρις Θεοῦ θλῖψιν πεπλήρωκε, ταύτης ἡ ἀποθήκη ἀπηνείας μεστὴ, ἐν τῇ ταύτης ἀγορᾷ πάντα εὐθηνὰ, ἀστοχία δὲ καὶ λιμὸς ἐλέους Θεοῦ καὶ εὐσπλαγχνίας καὶ φιλανθρωπίας· ταύτης οἰκήτορες οἱ ἐξ εὐωνύμων, ταύτης μαθητὴς ὁ ἄσπλαγχνος πλούσιος, ὁ τόν ποτε πτωχὸν Λάζαρον πρὸς τὸν πυλῶνα αὐτοῦ παρακείμενον βδελυσσόμενος· ταύτης φίλαι καὶ μαθήτριαι αἱ πέντε μωραὶ παρθένοι, ταύτης οἱ πολῖται πᾶν εἶδος πωλοῦσι καὶ ἀγοράζουσι χωρὶς ἐλέους καὶ ἀγάπης· ὅθεν καὶ ἀκούσονται τὸ, Οὐκ οἶδα ὑμᾶς. Ταύτης οἱ κληρονόμοι ἀκούσονται τὸ, Πορεύεσθε ἀπ' ἐμοῦ· ταύτης οἱ ἔμποροι πάντα κέκτηνται χωρὶς τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ φιλανθρωπίας· ὥσπερ καὶ αἱ προειρημέναι μωραὶ παρθένοι πάντα κατώρθωσαν, παρθενίαν, νηστείαν, ψαλμῳδίαν, ἀγρυπνίαν, ἐγκράτειαν, χαμαικοιτίαν, ξηροφαγίαν, προσευχὴν, ἀλουσίαν, κόπους καὶ ἱδρῶτας πολλοὺς, σιωπήν·","english":"For this is the mother of all evils, the begetter of hatred, the one who provokes God and the Father, the one who drives away the Holy Spirit. Mercilessness, which shows Christ—the gentle and calm one, the provider of peace and free from anger—as angry, according to what is written: Then he will speak to them in his anger. Then—when? Clearly when with great affliction and grief he will speak before them: Depart from me, you cursed ones. Did you see of what goods mercilessness becomes the cause? For its fruit is hatred of brothers, its crop is love of money, its service is the refusal to share, its festival has filled God's affliction, its storehouse is full of cruelty; in its marketplace all things are plentiful, but failure and famine of God's mercy and compassion and love for humanity; its inhabitants are those on the left, its disciple is the merciless rich man, who loathed Lazarus, once poor, lying at his gate; its friends and disciples are the five foolish virgins, its citizens are those who sell and buy every kind of thing without mercy and love; whence they will also hear: I do not know you. Its heirs will hear: Depart from me; its merchants possess all things without the love for humanity of God; just as also the aforementioned foolish virgins accomplished all things—virginity, fasting, psalmody, vigil, continence, sleeping on the ground, eating dry food, prayer, unwashedness, many labors and sweats, silence—","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":23,"ref":"p23","source":"ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ τούτοις προσελάβοντο δεινὸν κτῆμα καὶ ὀλέθριον, τὴν μισόθεον ἀσπλαγχνίαν, ἥτις πάσας αὐτῶν τὰς προειρημένας ἀρετὰς καὶ ἱδρῶτας ἀνονήτους ἀπέδειξεν.\n\nὪ ἀσπλαγχνία μισάδελφε καὶ μισόθεε· ὢ ἀσπλαγχνία ὀργῆς Θεοῦ ἀποθήκη· ὢ ἀσπλαγχνία κατοικητήριον ἔχον τὸ πῦρ τὸ ἐξώτερον, ὅπου ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων. Εἶδες κτῆμα μικρὸν μὲν φαινόμενον καὶ ἀφανίζον πολλὰς καὶ μεγάλας ἀρετὰς καὶ κατορθώματα; Πιστεύσατέ μοι, ἀδελφοὶ, ἔμφοβός εἰμι καὶ ἔντρομος, ἐννοῶν πῶς τὸ ἓν ἐκεῖνο πάθος πάντα ἐκεῖνα τὰ κατορθώματα ἀνόνητα καὶ ἀπρόσδεκτα ἀπέδειξεν, καὶ τοὺς ἀγωνιστὰς ἀγνωρίστους ἐποίησεν· ἤκουσαν γὰρ τὸ, Ἀμὴν λέγω\n\nὑμῖν, οὐκ οἶδα ὑμᾶς. Τίς δὲ ἡ δύναμις τοῦ ῥητοῦ; Οὐχ ὅτι ἠγνόει ὁ εἰδὼς τὰ πάντα πρὶν γενέσεως αὐτῶν, ἀλλ' ὅτι οὐ δι' αὐτὸν ἦσαν οἱ ἀγῶνες καὶ οἱ κόποι αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ πρὸς ἐπίδειξιν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ οὐ κατὰ ἀγάπην Θεοῦ. Ὅθεν καὶ τὴν ἀσπλαγχνίαν σύμβουλον παραλαβοῦσαι, ἐστερήθησαν οὐ μόνον τοῦ ἐπουρανίου νυμφίου, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἀκορέστου θέας τοῦ ὡραιοτάτου παραδείσου. Ἔνθα γὰρ χωρὶς ἀγάπης τι ἐπιτελεῖται, ἐκεῖ ὁ Χριστὸς οὐκ ἔχει ποῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν κλῖναι.","english":"And in addition to all these things they took to themselves a terrible and destructive possession, the God-hating mercilessness, which rendered all their aforementioned virtues and labors useless.\n\nO mercilessness, hating brother and hating God! O mercilessness, storehouse of the wrath of God! O mercilessness, a dwelling place that holds the outer fire, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Do you see a possession that appears small but destroys many great virtues and achievements? Believe me, brothers, I am fearful and trembling when I consider how that one passion rendered all those achievements useless and unacceptable, and made the contestants unrecognized; for they heard, Amen I say to you, I do not know you. And what is the force of the saying? Not that the one who knows all things before their birth was ignorant, but that their struggles and labors were not for his sake, but for the display of men, and not according to the love of God. Therefore, having taken mercilessness as their counselor, they were deprived not only of the heavenly bridegroom, but also of the insatiable sight of the most beautiful paradise. For wherever something is accomplished without love, there Christ has nowhere to lay his head.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":24,"ref":"p24","source":"Καὶ λοιπὸν ἡ ἀσπλαγχνία ἄδειαν εὑροῦσα καὶ τόπον ἀφύλακτον σπουδαίως ἐμπηδήσασα, κατακρατεῖ καὶ κυριεύει τοῦ τόπου, ἐκδιώκει τὴν ἀγάπην, φυγαδεύει τὴν συμπάθειαν, ἐξορίζει τὸ ἔλεος, τῆς εἰρήνης τὸν ἄγγελον ἀναγκάζει ὑποχωρῆσαι καὶ λοιπὸν στερηθεὶς ὁ τόπος τῆς ἐκ Θεοῦ ἀγάπης καὶ τοῦ ἐλέους, γίνεται ὁ οἶκος ἔρημος καὶ κατοικητήριον παντὸς πάθους καὶ πνεύματος ἀκαθάρτου, καὶ γίνεται γῆ ἀλλοτρία καὶ γῆ ἐπιλελησμένη, ἔνθα Θεὸς οὐ γινώσκεται. Διὸ ἀκούουσι τὸ, Οὐκ οἶδα ὑμᾶς. Ὢ τοῦ δεινοῦ θηρίου τούτου· ποῖον καρπὸν τῆς ἀμπέλου διέφθειρε καὶ οὐκ ἐνεπλήσθη; Αὕτη γὰρ ὅλον τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ἐξ εὐωνύμων κατέπιε, πρόξενος γενομένη τοῦ πυρὸς τοῦ αἰωνίου· αὕτη τὸν τόπον εὑροῦσα ταῖς διανοίαις τῶν πέντε μωρῶν παρθένων, καὶ ἰδίας μαθητρίας ποιήσασα, καὶ τὰς θύρας τοῦ νυμφῶνος κλείσασα, ἀγνωρίστους αὐτὰς τοῦ νυμφίου παρεσκεύασεν. Ὢ κάκιστον καὶ ἀχόρταστον θηρίον· πόσους κατέπιε, πόσους ἠφάνισε, πόσους ἐφόνευσε, πόσους κατέκαυσεν ἐκείνῳ τῷ πυρί; Ἀλλ' οὐχὶ τοῖς εὐσπλάγχνοις καὶ ἐλεήμοσιν, μὴ γένοιτο· καυχᾶται γὰρ ὁ ἐλεήμων, κρίσεως μὴ πτοούμενος· Ἡ γὰρ τελεία ἀγάπη ἔξω βάλλει τὸν φόβον· ἀλλὰ τῷ διαβόλῳ ἡτοίμασται κατὰ τὴν ἀθάνατον φωνὴν τοῦ Κυρίου, καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις αὐτοῦ. Ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω, καὶ τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ, περὶ ὧν πρὸ μικροῦ διηγησάμεθα τῶν τε ἐξ εὐωνύμων καὶ τῶν μωρῶν παρθένων. Οὗτοι πάντες καὶ ἕως τέλους οἱ τὰ ὅμοια πράττοντες, μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ τυγχάνουσιν.","english":"And for the rest, mercilessness, having found an opening and an unguarded place, leaping in eagerly, takes control and lords it over the place, drives out love, puts sympathy to flight, banishes mercy, compels the angel of peace to withdraw; and thereafter the place, deprived of the love and mercy that come from God, becomes a deserted house and a dwelling-place of every passion and unclean spirit, and becomes a foreign land and a forgotten land, where God is not known. Therefore they hear, I do not know you. O that terrible beast! What fruit of the vine did it destroy and was not filled? For this one swallowed the whole multitude of those on the left, having become the cause of eternal fire; this one, having found a place in the minds of the five foolish virgins, and having made them its own disciples, and having shut the doors of the bridal chamber, left them unrecognized by the bridegroom. O most wicked and insatiable beast! How many did it swallow, how many did it destroy, how many did it kill, how many did it burn with that fire? But not those who are compassionate and merciful—may it never be! For the merciful man boasts, not being frightened by judgment; for perfect love casts out fear; but it has been prepared for the devil, according to the immortal voice of the Lord, and for his angels. And I say, also for his disciples—concerning those of whom we spoke a little while ago, both those on the left and the foolish virgins. All these, and those who to the end do the like things, are his disciples.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":25,"ref":"p25","source":"Αὕτη καὶ τὸν πλούσιον ἐκεῖνον μαθητὴν λαβοῦσα, προεξένησεν αὐτῷ τὸν τόπον ἐκεῖνον τῆς βασάνου, ἔνθα καταφλεγόμενος, ὑψηλὰς ἠφίει φωνὰς λέγων, Ὀδυνῶμαι ἐν τῇ φλογὶ ταύτῃ· τοιαύτας γὰρ δωρεὰς χαρίζεται ἡ ἀσπλαγχνία τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτήν. Αὕτη γὰρ καὶ τὸ χάσμα ἐκεῖνο τὸ ἐξαίσιον ὤρυξε πρὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, ἵνα μὴ ἰσχύσας ποτὲ περάσῃ εἰς τὸν τόπον ἀνέσεως, καὶ εὑρήσῃ ἀνάπαυσιν· αὕτη γὰρ ὀρυκτὴς τῶν λάκκων καὶ δημιουργὸς τυγχάνει· ἄλλην γὰρ τέχνην τὸ θηρίον τοῦτο οὐκ ἐπίσταται. Οὐαί σοι, ἀσπλαγχνία, καὶ τοῖς μαθηταῖς σου· οὐαί σοι, ἀπήνεια, καὶ τοῖς κτήτορσί σου· τί σοι τὸ ὄφελος τοσοῦτον πλῆθος ἀνθρώπων ἀποχωρίσαι ἀπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ; Ἄκουε δῆθεν καὶ τῆς ἀσπλαγχνίας ἀποκρινομένης· Ἐμὸν ἔργον ἐστὶν ὀρύσσειν βότρους, θύρας κλείειν, σπιλοῦν χιτῶνας, κλείειν σπλάγχνα τοῦ μὴ ἐλεεῖν· ἐμὸν κέρδος, κτήσασθαι πολλοὺς φίλους καὶ ἀπολέσαι· ἐμὴ χαρὰ, περισσοτέρους ποιῆσαι μαθητὰς, καὶ τῷ ᾅδῃ παραπέμψαι· ὅτε οἱ ἐξ εὐωνύμων κατῃσχυμμένοι παρειστήκασιν ὀνειδιζόμενοι καὶ ἐγκαλούμενοι, τότε ἐγὼ ἐχόρευον· καὶ ὅτε ἐξεπέμποντο εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον, ὅπερ ἐγὼ αὐτοῖς προεξένησα, ἐγὼ ἐσκίρτουν· ὅτε ὀδυρόμενοι ἀπήρχοντο τοὺς ὀδόντας τρίζοντες καὶ ὑπὸ δαιμόνων ὠθούμενοι, ἐγὼ ἤμην συνωθοῦσα καὶ συγχαίρουσα· καὶ ὅτε αἱ δέκα παρθένοι ἡτοιμάζοντο ἀπαντῆσαι τῷ νυμφίῳ, ἐγὼ ἐκύκλουν αὐτὰς, καὶ τὰς μὲν πέντε οὐκ ἴσχυσα ἀποστῆσαι· πολλοὺς γὰρ πένητας καὶ πτωχοὺς καὶ ἀδυνάτους εἶχον κύκλῳ αὐτῶν καὶ τηροῦντας αὐτὰς καὶ μετὰ ἀγγέλων· ἐθεώρουν δὲ καὶ δεξιὰν Κυρίου σκέπουσαν αὐτὰς, καὶ ἔφριττον·","english":"This one too, having seized that rich disciple, prepared for him that place of torment beforehand, where, being burned, he kept sending up loud cries, saying, \"I am in anguish in this flame.\" For such gifts does mercilessness bestow on those who love her. For this one also dug that extraordinary chasm before his face, so that he might never be able to cross over to the place of refreshment and find rest. For this one is a digger of pits and a craftsman; for this beast knows no other craft. Woe to you, mercilessness, and to your disciples; woe to you, harshness, and to those who possess you. What profit is it to you to separate so great a multitude of people from God? Hear, as it were, mercilessness also answering: It is my work to dig pits, to shut doors, to stain garments, to close the bowels so as not to show mercy; my gain is to acquire many friends and destroy them; my joy is to make more disciples and send them on to Hades. When those on the left stood by, put to shame, reproached and accused, then I was dancing; and when they were sent away into the eternal fire, which I had prepared beforehand for them, I was leaping for joy. When they departed in anguish, gnashing their teeth and being pushed by demons, I was pushing along with them and rejoicing with them. And when the ten virgins were making ready to meet the bridegroom, I was circling around them, and I could not draw away the five; for they had many poor and needy and helpless people around them, guarding them, and with angels. And I saw also the right hand of the Lord sheltering them, and I shuddered.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":26,"ref":"p26","source":"τὰς δὲ λοιπὰς πέντε εὑροῦσα γυμνὰς ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀγάπης, ἐποίησα αὐτὰς μαθητρίας μου, καὶ ἔπεισα αὐτὰς μὴ ἀγοράσαι ἔλαιον, καὶ ἔσβεσα τὰς λαμπάδας αὐτῶν τῇ ἀσπλαγχνίᾳ, καὶ ἐσκότισα τὰς καρδίας αὐτῶν, καὶ λοιπὸν μὴ ἔχουσαι φῶς ἐστερήθησαν τῆς εἰσόδου. Αἱ δὲ ἄλλαι πέντε ἕτοιμαι οὖσαι συνεισῆλθον τῷ\n\nνυμφίῳ· καὶ ἐγὼ ἔκλεισα τὰς θύρας, καὶ τὰς ἐμὰς πέντε οὐ συνεχώρησα εἰσελθεῖν. Ἐμὸν γὰρ ἔργον ἐστὶ κλείειν θύρας ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ μὴ ἐᾷν εἰσελθεῖν εἰς ἐκείνην τὴν αἰώνιον ζωήν. Ὅσους πείσω γενέσθαι μου μαθητὰς, καὶ διδάξω μὴ ἀγοράζειν ἔλαιον, ἐκεῖ οὐ δύνανται εἰσελθεῖν, οὐδὲ χωρισθῆναι ἐξ ἐμοῦ. εʹ. Ὢ τοῦ δεινοῦ τούτου καὶ χαλεποῦ θηρίου, ἵνα καὶ πάλιν εἴπω, πόσον πλῆθος ἠπάτησε μὴ ἐλεεῖν, ποιῆσαν αὐτοὺς υἱοὺς γεέννης. Ἀκούσατε ἀνελεήμονες οἱ τὰ σπλάγχνα κλείοντες ἀπὸ τῶν χρείαν ἐχόντων· ἀκούσατε, οἱ ἀμετάδοτοι καὶ κακοποιοί· ὥσπερ γὰρ οἱ μὴ ἐλεοῦντες τῆς ἀσπλαγχνίας τυγχάνουσι μαθηταὶ, οὕτω καὶ οἱ θλίβοντες καὶ κακοποιοῦντες, οἱ ζημιοῦντες, οἱ τύπτοντες, οἱ φυλακίζοντες, καὶ μάλιστα ἀναιτίους, οἱ ἐκδύοντες, οἱ ἁρπάζοντες, οἱ καταδουλοῦντες ἀδελφοὺς ἐλευθέρους, οἱ λιμοκτονοῦντες τοὺς ἑαυτῶν δούλους καὶ γυμνοὺς καταλιμπάνοντες καὶ ἀφειδῶς τύπτοντες, οἱ ἐκ χηρῶν καὶ ὀρφανῶν ἀδίκως ἁρπάζοντες καὶ πλουτοῦντες· πάντες οὗτοι τῆς ἀσπλαγχνίας τέκνα καὶ μαθηταὶ τυγχάνουσιν. Ὁ Θεὸς γὰρ ὁ εὔσπλαγχνος καὶ ἐλεήμων περὶ τῶν ὑποδίκων καὶ ἀναξίων τιμωρίας ἐκέλευσεν ἀφιέναι. Οἱ ἀναιτίους καταπονοῦντες, τί πάθωσιν; Ἀκούσατε, οἱ ἀμετάδοτοι, τίνος φίλοι τυγχάνοντες οὐ γινώσκετε·","english":"But the other five, finding them naked of the love of God, I made my disciples, and I persuaded them not to buy oil, and I quenched their lamps by my mercilessness, and I darkened their hearts, and thereafter, having no light, they were deprived of the entrance. And the other five, being ready, entered in with the bridegroom; and I shut the doors, and I did not permit my own five to enter. For it is my work to shut doors before men and not to allow them to enter into that eternal life. As many as I persuade to become my disciples, and teach not to buy oil, these cannot enter there, nor be separated from me. 5. O this terrible and cruel beast—to speak once again—how great a multitude it has deceived into not showing mercy, making them sons of Gehenna. Hear, you merciless who close your hearts against those in need; hear, you who do not share and you who do evil; for just as those who do not show mercy become disciples of mercilessness, so too those who oppress and do evil, those who defraud, those who strike, those who imprison—and especially the innocent—those who strip, those who plunder, those who enslave free brothers, those who starve their own slaves to death and leave them naked and strike them without sparing, those who unjustly plunder widows and orphans and grow rich—all these are children and disciples of mercilessness. For God, who is compassionate and merciful, commanded that debts be forgiven even to those liable to punishment and unworthy of it. What then shall those suffer who crush the innocent? Hear, you who do not share, whose friends you are and do not know.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":27,"ref":"p27","source":"ἀκούσατε, ἄσπλαγχνοι, τίνος μαθηταὶ γνώμῃ γεγόνατε· ἀκούσατε, οἱ τυραννοῦντες καὶ καταπονοῦντες ἀδελφοὺς, τίνος ὑπηρέται καὶ ὑπουργοὶ τυγχάνετε, καὶ μαθόντες ὁποίαν ἀνάπαυσιν καὶ δωρεὰν ἡτοίμασεν ὑμῖν ἐκεῖθεν, ποταμοὺς, λάκκους, καὶ χάσματα, καὶ σκότος ἐξώτερον, καὶ βρυγμὸν ὀδόντων, καὶ ἕτερα ὅμοια, φρίξατε, τρομάξατε, ἰλιγγιάσατε· καὶ καταλιπόντες ταύτην τὴν ἀναίσχυντον καὶ μισόθεον καὶ μισάδελφον ἀσπλαγχνίαν γενώμεθα μαθηταὶ τοῦ εὐσπλάγχνου καὶ ἐλεήμονος Θεοῦ τοῦ πάντων ἐλεοῦντος καὶ πάντα συγχωροῦντος. Ὅσοι μαθηταὶ καὶ φίλοι ἐστὲ τῆς ἀσπλαγχνίας, ἐνδύσασθε σπλάγχνα οἰκτιρμῶν· ὡς καιρὸν ἔχομεν, μάθωμεν ἐλεεῖν καὶ συμπαθεῖν, μάθωμεν συγχωρεῖν· οἱ ποτὲ τυραννήσαντες, παύσασθε, καὶ μηδένα διασείσητε, καὶ ἀρκῆσθε τοῖς ὀψωνίοις ὑμῶν· οἱ τὰ μαλακὰ φρονοῦντες καὶ τὴν ἀσπλαγχνίαν, ἐνδύσασθε σπλάγχνα οἰκτιρμῶν, καθὼς κελεύει ὁ Χριστὸς διὰ τοῦ στόματος Παύλου· οἱ τὰς μεγίστας οἰκίας οἰκοδομοῦντες, καὶ συνάγοντες ἐκεῖ ἅπαντα τὰ νομιζόμενα ἀγαθὰ διὰ χειρῶν καὶ ἱδρώτων τῶν πενήτων ἀσιτείᾳ καὶ ἀμισθίᾳ, μνημονεύσατε τί ἤκουσεν ὁ πρὸ ὑμῶν ἀχόρταστος πλούσιος ὁ κακοσύμβουλος, ἀποδυρόμενος δίκην πένητος ἀπεγνωσμένου, καὶ λέγοντος, Τί ποιήσω, ὅτι οὐκ ἔχω πλατυτέρας ἀποθήκας; Τούτου τὴν ἐκ Θεοῦ ἐλθοῦσαν ἀπόφασιν εἰς μνήμην ἐλθόντες, ἀνοίξατε τοὺς θησαυροὺς ὑμῶν, καὶ δότε ἐλεημοσύνην· ποιήσατε ἑαυτοῖς θησαυρὸν ἀνέκλιπον ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, καθὼς προστάσσει ὁ Κύριος.","english":"Listen, you merciless, to whose disciples you have become by choice; listen, you who tyrannize and oppress your brothers, whose servants and ministers you are; and having learned what kind of rest and gift he has prepared for you from that place—rivers, pits, and chasms, and outer darkness, and gnashing of teeth, and other such things—shudder, tremble, be dizzy; and leaving behind this shameless, God-hating, and brother-hating mercilessness, let us become disciples of the compassionate and merciful God, who has mercy on all and forgives all. All you who are disciples and friends of mercilessness, clothe yourselves in bowels of compassion; while we have time, let us learn to show mercy and to sympathize, let us learn to forgive. You who once tyrannized, stop, and shake no one down, and be content with your wages. You who think soft things and mercilessness, clothe yourselves in bowels of compassion, as Christ commands through the mouth of Paul. You who build the greatest houses and gather there all things thought to be good through the hands and sweat of the poor, by their fasting and without pay, remember what was heard by the insatiable rich man before you, the evil counselor, lamenting like a destitute beggar and saying, What shall I do, since I have no larger storehouses? Calling to mind the sentence that came upon him from God, open your treasuries and give alms; make for yourselves an unfailing treasure in heaven, as the Lord commands.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":28,"ref":"p28","source":"Οἱ τὸν ἐμπαίκτην πλοῦτον ἐκ τόκου καὶ ἐξ ἀδικίας συλλέξαντες, ποιήσατε ἑαυτοῖς φίλους ἐκ τοῦ μαμωνᾶ, καθὼς παρακελεύεται ὁ Δεσπότης, ἵνα ὅταν ἐκλίπητε, δέξωνται ὑμᾶς εἰς τὰς αἰωνίας σκηνάς· οἱ ἀδικοῦντες, ἐννοήσατε πάντες τοῦ ποιοῦντος κρῖμα τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις καὶ φρίξατε· οἱ μισθοὺς μισθωτῶν ἀποστεροῦντες, μνήσθητε τοῦ λέγοντος, Ὁ ἀποστερῶν μισθὸν μισθωτοῦ, ὡς ὁ ἐκχέων αἷμα· καὶ ὅτι ὁ ἀπεστερημένος ἀφ' ὑμῶν κράζει, Καὶ αἱ βοαὶ τῶν ἀμησάντων τὰς χώρας ὑμῶν εἰς τὰ ὦτα Κυρίου Σαβαὼθ εἰσελήλυθε. Οἱ τύπτοντες ἀδελφοὺς, παύσασθε, μᾶλλον δὲ ἄρξασθε τύπτειν τὰ ἑαυτῶν πρόσωπα, μνημονεύοντες τὸ ἀφόρητον κρῖμα τῶν ῥαπισάντων τὸν ἀναμάρτητον Κύριον, ἔτι δὲ καὶ τοῦ φλαγελλώσαντος τοῦτον, καὶ στενάξατε, ὅτι πολλάκις ἐν τῷ τυπτομένῳ ἀδελφῷ ἐγκρύπτεται ὁ Χριστὸς ῥαπιζόμενος πάλιν καὶ ὑπὸ σοῦ. Καὶ γὰρ οἱ παρ' ἡμῶν ῥαπιζόμενοι τὸν Χριστὸν ἐνδέδυνται, καθώς φησιν ὁ Ἀπόστολος, ὅτι Ὅσοι εἰς Χριστὸν ἐβαπτίσθητε, Χριστὸν ἐνεδύσασθε, δι' ὧν καὶ ἀπέθανε, μεθ' ὧν καὶ","english":"You who have gathered mocking wealth from interest and from injustice, make friends for yourselves from mammon, just as the Master enjoins, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. You who do injustice, all of you, consider the One who executes judgment for the wronged, and shudder. You who withhold the wages of hired workers, remember the one who says, \"The one who withholds the wage of a hired worker is like one who sheds blood\"; and that the one defrauded by you cries out, \"And the cries of those who reaped your fields have entered into the ears of the Lord Sabaoth.\" You who strike your brothers, stop—or rather, begin to strike your own faces, remembering the unbearable judgment of those who slapped the sinless Lord, and moreover of the one who scourged him, and groan, because often in the brother who is struck, Christ is hidden, being slapped again even by you. For those who are slapped by us have put on Christ, as the Apostle says: \"As many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ,\" through whom he also died, with whom also","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":29,"ref":"p29","source":"ῥαπίζεται. Ἆρα ταῦτα ἀκούων οὐ φρίττεις, οὐ τρέμεις, οὐ παύῃ τύπτειν τοὺς συνδούλους; ἆρα ταῦτα ἀκούων, οὐκ ἐνάρκησέ σου ἡ χείρ; Ἐγὼ καὶ μόνον λαλῶν ἔντρομός εἰμι· σὺ δὲ ὁ ποιῶν ταῦτα, ἆρα ποίου θηρίου γνώμην κέκτησαι, ὅτι ἀδυσώπητος ἔμεινας; ἆρα οὖν ἐν ᾧ μετρεῖς, οὐκ ἀντιμετρηθήσεταί σοι; Λοιπὸν κἂν μικρὸν παῦσαι ἀπὸ τῆς ματαιότητος, ἵνα μὴ Θησαυρίσῃς ἑαυτῷ ὀργὴν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ὀργῆς καὶ ἀποκαλύψεως καὶ δικαιοκρισίας Θεοῦ· ὃς ἀποδώσει ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ. Ἀλλὰ πάλιν μικρὸν ἀναλαβὼν ὑπομνήσω ἕκαστον ὡς ἐν κεφαλαίῳ τὰ δέοντα. Οἱ ἀπηνεῖς πλούσιοι οἱ εὐφραινόμενοι καθ' ἡμέραν, μνήσθητε τοῦ ἀνελεήμονος ἐκείνου πλουσίου, ὃν οὐκ ἀφίησιν ἡ ἀσπλαγχνία διαβῆναι καὶ ἰδεῖν ἐκεῖνο τὸ χάσμα, ὅπερ ὤρυξεν αὐτῷ ἡ ἀσπλαγχνία, καὶ φρίξατε· οἱ ἐπὶ μόνῃ παρθενίᾳ ἐγκαυχώμενοι καὶ τῇ ἀπηνείᾳ πεπληρωμένοι, μὴ ἐπιλάθεσθε τῶν μωρῶν παρθένων· οἱ τὰ σπλάγχνα κλείοντες ἀπὸ τῶν χρῃζόντων, ἀεὶ ἐννοεῖτε τῶν παρισταμένων ἐξ εὐωνύμων, καὶ μετ' αἰσχύνης πολλῆς κάτω νευόντων, καὶ ἀκουόντων τῆς ὀδυνηρᾶς ἐκείνης φωνῆς, τὸ, Πορεύεσθε ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, οἱ κατηραμένοι, εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον, καὶ φρίξατε· οἱ ἁρπάζοντες τὰ ἀλλότρια, ἀκούετε τοῦ λαλοῦντος διὰ στόματος τῶν ἁγίων, Χειρὶ χεῖρας ἐμβαλὼν ἀδίκως, οὐκ ἀτιμώρητος ἔσται· καὶ πάλιν, Ἐγὼ Κύριος μισῶν ἅρπαγμα ἐξ ἀδικίας· καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ, Ἐπὶ ἅρπαγμα μὴ ἐπιποθεῖτε. Οἱ ὀρφανοὺς καὶ χήρας θλίβοντες, ἐνθυμήθητε τίς ὁ τούτων προστάτης καὶ ἔκδικος·","english":"He is struck. Do you hear these things and not shudder, not tremble, not cease beating your fellow servants? Do you hear these things and your hand has not grown numb? I am trembling merely at speaking of them; but you who do these things—what kind of beast's mind have you acquired, that you have remained unyielding? Will it not then be measured back to you in the same measure with which you measure? For the rest, cease even a little from your vanity, so that you do not store up for yourself wrath on the day of wrath and revelation and of the just judgment of God, who will repay each one according to his works. But again, taking up a little, I will remind each one, as it were in summary, of what is needful. You harsh rich, who feast every day, remember that merciless rich man, whom his lack of compassion does not allow to cross over and see that chasm which his lack of compassion dug for him, and shudder. You who boast in virginity alone and are filled with harshness, do not forget the foolish virgins. You who close your hearts to those in need, always keep in mind those standing on the left, and bowing down below with great shame, and hearing that painful voice: Go from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire—and shudder. You who snatch what belongs to others, hear him who speaks through the mouth of the saints: He who puts hand to hands unjustly will not go unpunished; and again, I am the Lord who hates robbery from injustice; and elsewhere, Do not desire robbery. You who oppress orphans and widows, consider who is their protector and avenger.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":30,"ref":"p30","source":"Θεὸς γὰρ, εἶπεν ὁ Δαυῒδ, ὁ πατὴρ τῶν ὀρφανῶν καὶ κριτὴς τῶν χηρῶν οἱ κατεπαιρόμενοι παρθένοι τῶν μιγάδων, μνήσθητε τοῦ εἰπόντος Χριστοῦ διὰ στόματος Παύλου, Τίμιος ὁ γάμος, καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος. Οἱ δὲ τὸν ναὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν πορνείᾳ φθείροντες, ἀκούσατε τοῦ αὐτοῦ πάλιν λέγοντος· Πόρνους καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεός. Οἱ ἐν δόλῳ φιλοῦντες, ἀκούσατε καὶ μὴ ἐπιλάθεσθε τοῦ δολίου φιλήματος τοῦ παραδώσαντος Ἰούδα τὸν Ἰησοῦν· οἱ κλέπται, ἀκούσατε τί περὶ ὑμῶν ὁ Κύριος πρὸς τὸν προφήτην Ζαχαρίαν ἐλάλησεν· λέγει οὖν Τί σὺ ὁρᾷς, Ζαχαρία; Καὶ εἶπον· Δρέπανον πετόμενον· μῆκος αὐτῷ πήχεων εἴκοσι, καὶ πλάτος αὐτῷ πήχεων δέκα. Καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος· Αὕτη ἡ ἀρὰ ἡ ἐκπορευομένη ἐπὶ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς· διότι πᾶς κλέπτης ἐκ τούτου ἐκδικηθήσεται ἕως θανάτου· καὶ εἰσελεύσεται εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ κλέπτου, καὶ εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ ὀμνύοντος τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν ψεύδει, καὶ καταλύσει ἐν τῷ μέσῳ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ, καὶ συντελέσει αὐτὸν, καὶ τὰ ξύλα αὐτοῦ, καὶ τοὺς λίθους αὐτοῦ. Ἆρα ἀρκεῖ ταῦτα, ὦ κλέπται, τοῦ παύσασθαι τοῦ χαλεποῦ δρόμου; ἢ προσενέγκω καὶ ἕτερα θεῖα ῥήματα ἀποτρέποντα καὶ κατακρίνοντα ὑμᾶς καὶ ἐκφοβοῦντα πρὸς ἐπιστροφήν; Ἀκούσατε οὖν καὶ τοῦ Ἀποστόλου λέγοντος· Ὁ κλέπτης μηκέτι κλεπτέτω, ἀλλὰ κοπιάτω ἐργαζόμενος τὸ ἀγαθὸν ταῖς ἰδίαις χερσὶν, ἵνα ἔχῃ μεταδιδόναι καὶ τῷ χρείαν ἔχοντι· καὶ πάλιν, ὅτι Κλέπται βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν. Καὶ ἀρκεῖ λοιπὸν τὰ εἰρημένα περὶ τῶν κλεπτῶν, εἰ βούλοιντο. Οἱ μνησίκακοι, ἀκούσατε τοῦ ἀποστόλου Πέτρου κράζοντος·","english":"For God, said David, is the father of orphans and the judge of widows. You virgins who lord it over the mixed multitude, remember Christ who said through the mouth of Paul, Marriage is honorable, and the bed undefiled. But you who corrupt the temple of God in fornication, hear the same one again saying: God will judge fornicators and adulterers. You who kiss in deceit, hear and do not forget the treacherous kiss of Judas who handed over Jesus; you thieves, hear what the Lord spoke concerning you to the prophet Zechariah: He says then, What do you see, Zechariah? And I said: A flying sickle; its length was twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits. And the Lord said: This is the curse that goes out over the face of the earth; for every thief shall be punished by it unto death; and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of the one who swears the name of God falsely, and it shall destroy in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and its wood, and its stones. Is this enough, you thieves, to make you cease from your cruel course? Or shall I bring forward other divine words as well, turning you away and condemning you and frightening you toward conversion? Hear then also the Apostle saying: Let the thief no longer steal, but let him labor, working the good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one in need; and again, that Thieves will not inherit the kingdom of God. And what has been said about thieves is now sufficient, if they are willing. You who bear grudges, hear the apostle Peter crying out:","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":31,"ref":"p31","source":"Μὴ ἀποδιδόντες κακὸν ἀντὶ κακοῦ, ἢ λοιδορίαν ἀντὶ λοιδορίας· ἀλλ' ἀποθέμενοι πᾶσαν κακίαν, καὶ πᾶσαν καταλαλιὰν, ὡς ἀρτιγέννητα βρέφη βιώσατε. Εἰ ποτὲ νικηθεὶς καὶ χαυνωθεὶς μισήσῃς ἄνθρωπον, μὴ τολμήσῃς εἰπεῖν, ὅτι Ἀγαπῶ τὸν Θεόν· ἀρκετὸν γάρ σου τὸ βάρος, καὶ τὸ κατάκριμα τῆς μισαδελφίας, ἡ βαρυτέρα ἁπασῶν τῶν βαρημάτων· καὶ μὴ ἐπάγῃς ἑαυτῷ ψεῦδος· Ὁ γὰρ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ μισῶν, καὶ λέγων, ὅτι Ἀγαπῶ τὸν Θεὸν, ψεύστης ἐστὶν, καθὼς γέγραπται. Οἱ φιλάργυροι, ἐννοήσατε τί φιλεῖτε, τοῦ Ἀποστόλου βοῶντος· εἰ δὲ καὶ τοῦτο οὐ κατέχετε, δεῦτε ἀκούσατε, καὶ διηγήσομαι ὑμῖν, ὁποῖον κακὸν φιλεῖτε· Ῥίζα πάντων τῶν κακῶν ἡ φιλαργυρία. Ἀγνοεῖτε τὸ ποθούμενον παρ' ὑμῶν θηρίον καὶ ψυχοφθόρον; Οὐδεὶς φιλόχρυσος γέγονέ ποτε φιλάνθρωπος, ὁ δὲ μὴ φιλάνθρωπος οὐδὲ φιλόχριστος.\n\nʹ. Ἐννοήσατε ὁποία ἐστὶν ἀναιδὴς καὶ ἀναίσχυντος. Οὐκ ἐνετράπη εἰς τὸν τίμιον ἐκεῖνον καὶ μακάριον χορὸν τῶν ἀποστόλων, ὃν καὶ οἱ δαίμονες φρίττουσιν, ὧν καὶ αἱ σκιαὶ παθῶν φυγαδευτήρια, ὧν τὰ χρῶτα νοσήματα ἰῶντο, ὧν ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας πάντα τὰ ἔθνη καὶ βασιλεῖς καὶ δυνάσται καὶ σοφοὶ ὑπετάγησαν. Ἀλλ' ὅμως ἡ ἀναιδὴς ἐπεπήδησεν ὥσπερ λῃστὴς καὶ ὡς λέων ὠρυόμενος, καὶ ἀφήρπασε τὸν ἀπόστολον, ἀλλ' ἐκ τῶν δώδεκα τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν, τῶν λογάδων καὶ κορυφαίων, οὐκ ἄμοιρον τῆς Χριστοῦ εὐλογίας καὶ δωρεᾶς παρὰ τοῖς ἕνδεκα, οὐδὲ τῶν χαρισμάτων· ἄφθονος γὰρ ὢν ὁ διδάσκαλος, ὥσπερ τοὺς λοιποὺς κἀκεῖνον ἐτίμησεν, καὶ παρέσχετο χάρισμα τῶν ἰαμάτων καὶ τὴν κατὰ τοῦ ἀλλοτρίου ἐξουσίαν.","english":"Not repaying evil for evil or insult for insult; but putting away all malice and all slander, live as newborn babes. If ever, overcome and weakened, you hate a man, do not dare to say, \"I love God\"; for sufficient for you is the burden and the condemnation of hating your brother, heavier than all burdens; and do not bring falsehood upon yourself. For he who hates his brother and says, \"I love God,\" is a liar, as it is written. You lovers of money, consider what you love, since the Apostle cries out—and if you do not grasp even this, come and hear, and I will tell you what an evil thing you love: The love of money is the root of all evils. Are you ignorant of the beast you desire, the destroyer of the soul? No one who loves gold has ever been a lover of mankind, and he who is not a lover of mankind is not even a lover of Christ.\n\nConsider how shameless and impudent she is. She was not ashamed before that honored and blessed choir of the apostles, at whom even the demons shudder, whose very shadows were refuges from passions, whose bodies healed diseases, under whose feet all nations and kings and powers and wise men were subjected. But nevertheless the shameless one leaped in like a robber and like a roaring lion, and snatched away the apostle—but one of the twelve, the chosen, the select and foremost, not without a share of Christ's blessing and gift among the eleven, nor of the charisms; for the Teacher, being generous, honored him as he did the rest, and granted him the charism of healings and authority against the alien one.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":32,"ref":"p32","source":"Ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ τοὺς κατὰ τοῦ Διδασκάλου τρέχοντας οἰκείαις χερσὶν, ὥσπερ καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν μαθητῶν, ἔνιψεν ὁ ἀγαθὸς καὶ ἀνεξίκακος Κύριος. Ὁποίαν λοιπὸν δοκεῖς δύναμιν ἔχειν λαβόντα τὴν ἐξουσίαν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Δεσπότου τῶν ὅλων κατὰ δαιμόνων καὶ παντοίων παθῶν; Ἐγὼ λέγω· πάντων τῶν βασιλέων καὶ δυναστῶν ὑπερισχύειν τοῦτο, καὶ πάσης ἐξουσίας φοβερώτερον εἶναι. Καὶ λοιπὸν ἐνθυμήθητε, ὦ φιλάργυροι, εἰ τὸν τοιοῦτον καὶ τηλικοῦτον στρατιώτην ὡς γυμνὸν καὶ ἀβοήθητον κατεπόνησε καὶ ἔλαβεν ὡς αἰχμάλωτον, τί λοιπὸν πάθωμεν ἡμεῖς οἱ μηδὲν κατόρθωμα ἀρετῆς κεκτημένοι; Καὶ τί λέγω περὶ ἀποστόλων καὶ μαθητῶν; Αὐτὸν τὸν Κύριον καὶ Δεσπότην τῶν ὅλων οὐκ ᾐδέσθη, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπ' αὐτὸν τὰς χεῖρας ἐπέβαλε, καὶ τὸν ἄπρατον ἔπρασε, καὶ τὸν πάσης δόξης καὶ τιμῆς ὑπάρχοντα ἄξιον ἠτίμασε, καὶ ᾧ κάμπτει πᾶν γόνυ, ἐῤῥάπισε, καὶ ᾧ φρίκῃ προσκυνοῦσιν οὐράνιαι στρατιαὶ, ἐνέπτυσε· καὶ, ἵνα τὸ μεῖζον εἴπω, τὸν ἀρχηγὸν τῆς ζωῆς, τὸν τὰ πάντα ζωοποιοῦντα ἀπέκτεινε. Λοιπὸν μηδεὶς καυχάσθω ἐν ἀνθρώποις, μηδεὶς ἐνδυναμούσθω ἐπὶ τῇ ἰδίᾳ ματαιότητι· μή τις θαῤῥείτω, ὅτι Πάθος οὐ νικᾷ με ποτέ· εἰς πολλὰ γὰρ νικᾷ σε, καὶ νικητὴς εἶναι δοκεῖς; τὸν ἀπόστολον τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐνίκησε, καὶ σὺ καταφρονεῖς; τὸν κορυφαῖον ᾐχμαλώτευσε, καὶ σὺ ἀμεριμνεῖς καὶ μεγαλαυχεῖς; Ὅρα οὖν ὁ δοκῶν ἑστάναι, μὴ πέσῃς. Βούλει δείξω σοι ἐν πόσοις πράγμασι νικᾶσαι καὶ οὐ συνιεῖς; Βούλει ἀπογυμνώσω σοι ὅσα ἐκ τοῦ πονηροῦ ποιεῖς, καὶ ὡς ἀναίτιος διάγεις; Ἄκουε· ὤμοσας τὸ φοβερὸν ὄνομα τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὅπερ οὐδὲ οἱ ἄγγελοι τολμῶσι·","english":"But the good and forbearing Lord washed even his feet that ran against the Teacher, with his own hands, just as he did those of the other disciples. What power, then, do you think he has, who received authority from God and Master of all things against demons and every kind of passion? I say that this is stronger than all kings and rulers, and more fearsome than every authority. And now consider, you lovers of money, if he wore down and took captive as a prisoner such a soldier and so great a one, naked and helpless, what then shall we suffer, who have acquired no achievement of virtue? And why do I speak of apostles and disciples? He did not reverence the Lord and Master of all things himself, but laid hands on him, and sold the one who cannot be sold, and dishonored the one who is worthy of all glory and honor, and struck the one before whom every knee bends, and spat on the one whom the heavenly hosts worship with trembling; and, to say the greater thing, he killed the author of life, the one who gives life to all things. Let no one, then, boast among men, let no one be strengthened in his own vanity; let no one be confident, saying, \"Passion will never conquer me\"; for it conquers you in many things, and do you think you are a conqueror? It conquered the apostle of Christ, and do you despise it? It took captive the chief one, and are you free from care and boasting great things? See, then, you who think you stand, lest you fall. Do you wish me to show you in how many things you are conquered and do not understand? Do you wish me to lay bare to you all the things you do from the evil one, and how you live as if blameless? Hear: you have sworn the fearful name of God, which not even the angels dare to—","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":33,"ref":"p33","source":"τοῦτο ἐκ τοῦ πονηροῦ ἐστιν, ὡς ὁ Κύριος ἐδήλωσεν· ἐψεύσω, ἥττημά ἐστιν· ἐλοιδόρησας, ἡττήθης· χρήματα ἀπέθηκας τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, μᾶλλον δὲ τοῦ Χριστοῦ λιμώττοντος καὶ γυμνητεύοντος· ἐνικήθης νίκην χαλεπὴν καὶ ἀναπολόγητον, τὴν πρόξενον τοῦ ἐσχάτου ἐκείνου καὶ φοβεροῦ ἐγκλήματος· Ἐπείνασα, καὶ οὐκ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν, καὶ τὰ ἀκόλουθα· καὶ τὸ χαλεπώτερον, ὅτι καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν τοῦ Χριστοῦ βοῶντα οὐκ ἠλέησας· καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν πάντα ὁμοῦ καταλιπὼν, πορεύσῃ ὅθεν οὐκ ἀναλύσεις, ἀλλ' ἐναρίθμιος ἔσῃ μετὰ τῶν ἀκουόντων· Πορεύεσθε ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, οἱ κατηραμένοι, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Εἶδες ἐν ποίοις νενίκησαι, καὶ οὐ συνιεῖς; εἶδες πόσων παραπτωμάτων ὑπεύθυνος εἶ, καὶ ὡς νικητὴς καὶ ἀναίτιος ἐν ἀμελείᾳ διάγεις, ἡττημένος καὶ νενικημένος καὶ δείλαιος; Οὐκ ἤκουσας τὸ γεγραμμένον, ὅτι Ὁ νικῶν κληρονομήσει τὰ αἰώνια ἀγαθὰ, ἅπερ ἐν τῇ Ἀποκαλύψει Ἰωάννης ἐδήλωσε καὶ διηγήσατο, ἅπερ εἶδεν πράγματα, χαρὰν ἀπλήρωτον, εὐφροσύνην ἀκήρατον, διαγωγὴν μετὰ τοῦ Δεσπότου τῶν ὅλων καὶ πάντων τῶν ἁγίων ἀγγέλων καὶ ἀρχαγγέλων· καὶ ἕτερα πολλὰ καὶ θαυμαστὰ διηγησάμενος τέλος ἐπήγαγε λέγων· Ὁ νικῶν κληρονομήσει ταῦτα. Τὴν νίκην προείπαμεν, εἰ κατέχετε· διὰ δὲ τοὺς ῥᾳθυμοτέρους καὶ πάλιν εἴπωμεν ποίαν λέγει νίκην. Νίκην, ἣν ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν ἐνίκησε καὶ ἐδίδαξε λέγων· Θαρσεῖτε, ἐγὼ νενίκηκα τὸν κόσμον. Ἤκουσας ὁποίαν λέγει νίκην; Ὁ νικῶν κληρονομήσει χαράν. Ὢ μακαρίας κληρονομίας, ὢ κλῆρος πάσης χαρᾶς","english":"This is from the evil one, as the Lord made clear. You lied—it is a defeat. You reviled—you were defeated. You withheld money from your brother, or rather from Christ when he was hungry and naked—you were conquered by a harsh and inexcusable victory, the kind that brings on that final and fearful charge: I was hungry, and you did not give me to eat, and the words that follow. And what is worse, you did not show mercy to the brother of Christ when he cried out. And after a little while, leaving all things behind together, you will go where you will not return, but you will be numbered among those who hear: Go from me, you cursed ones, and what follows. Did you see in what matters you have been conquered, and you do not understand? Did you see of how many transgressions you are guilty, and yet you live on as a victor and blameless in negligence, defeated and conquered and wretched? Have you not heard what is written, that The one who conquers will inherit eternal goods, which John declared and recounted in the Revelation, the things he saw: joy unfilled, gladness undefiled, a way of life with the Master of all and with all the holy angels and archangels. And after recounting many other wonderful things, he added at the end, saying: The one who conquers will inherit these things. We have already stated what the victory is, if you hold to it; but for the sake of the more careless, let us say again what sort of victory he means. The victory that our Lord won and taught, saying: Take courage, I have conquered the world. Have you heard what sort of victory he means? The one who conquers will inherit joy. O blessed inheritance, O lot of all joy","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":34,"ref":"p34","source":"πεπληρωμένος. Πολλῶν ἀγώνων, ἀδελφοὶ, χρεία, πολλῶν ἱδρώτων, πολλῶν δακρύων καὶ πολλῆς δεήσεως καὶ ἐγκαρδίου ταπεινώσεως. Ποίῳ τρόπῳ χρησώμεθα; ποίαν τέχνην ἐπινοήσωμεν; ποίαν ἐφεύρωμεν μέθοδον, ἵνα μὴ ἐκπέσωμεν ἐκεῖνα τὰ σημαινόμενα ἀγαθὰ, ἅπερ ἀπεκαλύφθη τῷ μακαρίῳ Ἰωάννῃ; τίνα ἐρωτήσωμεν καὶ διδάξει ἡμᾶς τὸν τρόπον, πῶς δυνηθῶμεν κληρονόμοι γενέσθαι τῶν ἀνεκφωνήτων ἐκείνων ἀγαθῶν, Ὧν ἡτοίμασεν ὁ Θεὸς τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν; Ὁ διδάσκων ἄνθρωπον γνῶσιν Κύριος, αὐτὸς διδάξει ἡμᾶς τὸν τρόπον, πῶς δεῖ νικᾷν τὸν κόσμον. Προσέλθωμεν αὐτῷ ἀναιδῶς, καὶ ἐρωτήσωμεν εἰλικρινῶς· μιμησώμεθα τὸν τίμιον χορὸν ἐκεῖνον τῶν ἀποστόλων, καὶ καθὼς ἐκεῖνοι προσελθόντες ἐπηρώτησαν αὐτὸν περὶ συντελείας καὶ περὶ πάντων, καὶ ἔμαθον παρὰ τῆς ἀληθείας τὴν ἀλήθειαν· προσέλθωμεν αὐτῷ καὶ νῦν, εἰ καὶ ἀνάξιοι καὶ εὐτελεῖς τυγχάνομεν, καὶ πόῤῥω τῆς τῶν ἀποστόλων ἀξίας.\n\nΟὐ γάρ ἐστι μακρὰν, οὐδὲ διέστηκε τῶν ἐν ἀληθείᾳ ζητούντων αὐτὸν, καθὼς ὁ προφήτης λέγει· Ἐγγὺς Κύριος πᾶσι τοῖς ἐπικαλουμένοις αὐτὸν ἐν ἀληθείᾳ. Εἰπὲ ἡμῖν, Κύριε, εἰπὲ ἡμῖν, πῶς δεῖ νικῆσαι τὸν κόσμον· Κύριε, δίδαξον ἡμᾶς ποιεῖν τὸ θέλημά σου. Κύριε, ὁδήγησον ἡμᾶς ἐν τῇ ὀδῷ σου, μήποτε καταπιέτω ἡμᾶς ὁ βυθὸς τοῦ πονηροῦ τούτου αἰῶνος· Κύριε, Κύριε, μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς ἡμᾶς· Κύριε, ἐκτὸς σοῦ ἄλλον οὐκ οἴδαμεν· ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς, ὅτι ἀσθενεῖς ἐσμεν· Κύριε, μὴ ἀφήσῃς ἡμᾶς ὀρφανούς· Διδάσκαλε ἀγαθὲ, τί ποιήσαντες ζωὴν αἰώνιον κληρονομήσομεν; Πρὸς ταῦτα ἀκούσωμεν τί ἀποκριθήσεται καὶ λαλήσει·","english":"Fulfilled. Many are the struggles, brothers, that we need—many sweats, many tears, much supplication, and heartfelt humility. In what way shall we proceed? What skill shall we devise? What method shall we invent, so that we may not fall short of those good things signified, which were revealed to the blessed John? Whom shall we ask, and who will teach us the way, how we may be able to become heirs of those ineffable good things which God has prepared for those who love him? The Lord, who teaches man knowledge, he himself will teach us the way, how we ought to conquer the world. Let us come to him shamelessly, and ask sincerely; let us imitate that honored choir of the apostles, and just as they came and questioned him about the consummation and about all things, and learned the truth from the Truth—let us come to him now as well, even if we are unworthy and insignificant, and far from the worthiness of the apostles.\n\nFor he is not far off, nor has he withdrawn from those who seek him in truth, as the prophet says: The Lord is near to all who call upon him in truth. Tell us, Lord, tell us, how we ought to conquer the world; Lord, teach us to do your will. Lord, guide us in your way, lest the depth of this evil age swallow us up; Lord, Lord, do not forsake us; Lord, apart from you we know no other; have mercy on us, for we are weak; Lord, do not leave us orphans; Good Teacher, what must we do to inherit eternal life? To these things let us hear what he will answer and speak.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":35,"ref":"p35","source":"Δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου, τοῖς ἴχνεσί μου ἀκολουθήσατε, μιμηταί μου γίνεσθε, πτωχεύσατε ἑκουσίως, ἵνα πλουτήσητε τὸν τρόπον τῆς ἐμῆς νίκης. Ἀκούσατε τοῦ ἀποστόλου διηγουμένου καὶ λέγοντος· Δι' ἡμᾶς ἐπτώχευσε πλούσιος ὤν. Ἐταπείνωσεν ἑαυτὸν γενόμενος ὑπήκοος μέχρι θανάτου. Οὕτω καὶ πᾶς ὁ βουλόμενος νικῆσαι, ταπεινούσθω· ὀφείλει μὲν καὶ ὑπὲρ ἐμὲ ὡς δοῦλος· εἰ δὲ μὴ, κἂν ὡς ἐγὼ Δεσπότης· ὑπομενέτω διωγμοὺς, ὕβρεις, ἀτιμίας, ῥαπίσματα, ἐμπτύσματα. Οὕτως ὁ βιῶν μετὰ ὀρθῆς ὁμολογίας νικᾷ τὸν κόσμον, καὶ κληρονομεῖ ἐκεῖνα τὰ ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου μηνυθέντα, ἅπερ ἄγγελοι ἐπιθυμοῦσι θεάσασθαι. Ὄντως οὐδὲν ἰσχυρότερον τοῦ πτωχεύοντος διὰ τὸν Κύριον· οὐδεὶς οὕτω φοβερὸς τοῖς δαίμοσιν, ὡς ὁ ταπεινόφρων· ὁ βουλόμενος νικῆσαι τὸν κόσμον καὶ τὰ ἐν κόσμῳ καὶ τὸν ὑψηλόφρονα καὶ ὑπερήφανον, τὰς ἐντολάς μου φυλάξει, καθὼς ἐγὼ τοῦ Πατρός μου τετήρηκα, γενόμενος ὑπήκοος μέχρι θανάτου, καταδεξάμενος ὕβρεις καὶ ἀτιμίας, ῥαπίσματα καὶ ἐμπτύσματα· καὶ οὕτω νικᾷ τὸν κόσμον. Οὗτος ὁ τρόπος ἐφόβησε καὶ ἐξενεύρωσε τὸν διάβολον, καὶ κατέκλασε αὐτοῦ τοὺς ὀδόντας, καὶ συνέτριψεν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἰσχὺν καὶ τὸ μάταιον αὐτοῦ κράτος· ἐν τούτῳ καυχάσθω ὁ καυχώμενος καθὼς γέγραπται· Καυχάσθω ἀδελφὸς ὁ ταπεινὸς ἐν τῷ ὕψει αὐτοῦ· οὗτος γὰρ ὁ νικῶν τὸν κόσμον. Ὁρᾷς τῆς ταπεινοφροσύνης τὸ ὕψος, βλέπεις τῆς πτωχείας τὸ νῖκος; εἶδες ἀήττητον παράταξιν τοῦ ταπεινοῦ τῇ καρδίᾳ; Ὢ πτωχεία πλουσιωτέρα πάντων τῶν βασιλέων· ὢ ταπεινοφροσύνη δυνατωτέρα γιγάντων· ὢ ταπείνωσις καὶ ὑπακοὴ, ὅπλον καὶ βέλος κατὰ τοῦ πονηροῦ.","english":"Come after me, follow in my footsteps, become imitators of me, become poor willingly, so that you may become rich in the manner of my victory. Hear the apostle recounting and saying: For your sakes he became poor, though he was rich. He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death. So too let everyone who wishes to conquer humble himself; he ought indeed to humble himself even more than I, as a servant—but if not, then at least as I, the Master. Let him endure persecutions, insults, dishonors, blows, and spittings. Thus the one who lives with a right confession conquers the world and inherits those things announced by John, which angels desire to behold. Truly nothing is stronger than the one who is poor for the sake of the Lord; no one is so fearsome to the demons as the humble-minded man. The one who wishes to conquer the world and the things in the world, and the proud and arrogant one, will keep my commandments, just as I have kept my Father's, becoming obedient unto death, accepting insults and dishonors, blows and spittings; and thus he conquers the world. This is the manner that frightened and enfeebled the devil, and shattered his teeth, and crushed his strength and his vain power. In this let the one who boasts boast, as it is written: Let the humble brother boast in his exaltation; for this is the one who conquers the world. Do you see the height of humility, do you see the victory of poverty? Did you see the invincible array of the humble in heart? O poverty, richer than all kings! O humility, mightier than giants! O lowliness and obedience, weapon and arrow against the evil one!","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":36,"ref":"p36","source":"Ὄντως μάτην ταράσσεται πᾶς ἄνθρωπος, χωρὶς τοῦ τρόπου τούτου νικῆσαι βουλόμενος. Μὴ πλανῶ, ἄνθρωπε, οὐδεὶς Χριστοῦ ἰσχυρότερος· ἀλλ' αὐτὸς οὕτως παρετάξατο καὶ ἐνίκησε, διδάξας ἡμᾶς τρόπον νίκης ἀήττητον· τῷ τρόπῳ τούτῳ κατέβαλε τὸν ὑπερήφανον, τῇ τέχνῃ ταύτῃ κατέβαλε τὸν εἰπόντα, Ἔσομαι ὅμοιος τῷ Ὑψίστῳ· ταύτῃ τῇ μεθοδείᾳ ἐνίκησε τὸν κόσμον καὶ τοῦ κοσμοκράτορος κατέκλασε τοὺς ὀδόντας, διωκόμενος, ἐπιβουλευόμενος, ὑβριζόμενος, ἐμπτυόμενος. Ὁρᾷς τὸ ἀήττητον ὅπλον; ὁρᾷς τὴν νίκην καὶ τὴν τέχνην; βλέπεις τὸ ἀνίκητον κράτος\n\nτῆς κατὰ Θεὸν πτωχείας; εἶδες πῶς φοβερὸς ὑπάρχει τοῖς δαίμοσιν ὁ τὴν ταπεινοφροσύνην ἐνδεδυμένος; Τοῦ μὲν Κυρίου, καθὼς προείρηται, μιμητής ἐστι, τῶν ἀγγέλων ποθητὸς, τοῖς ἀποστόλοις τίμιος, τοῖς μάρτυσι συναρίθμιος, τοῖς δαίμοσι φοβερὸς, τοῦ κόσμου νικητὴς, τῶν αἰωνίων καὶ ἀφθάρτων ἀγαθῶν κληρονόμος. Τούτου οὐδέποτε φόβος ἅπτεται, τοῦτον πᾶς λεγεὼν δαιμόνων ὑποχωρεῖ καὶ πτήσσει, βλέποντες ἐν αὐτῷ τὸν τοῦ κόσμου νικητὴν Χριστὸν καταπατήσαντα αὐτοὺς, καὶ καθελόντα αὐτῶν τὸ μάταιον κράτος.","english":"Truly in vain is every man disturbed who wishes to conquer without this manner. Do not be deceived, O man: no one is stronger than Christ; but he himself arrayed himself thus and conquered, teaching us a manner of victory that cannot be defeated. By this manner he cast down the proud one; by this craft he cast down the one who said, I will be like the Most High; by this method he conquered the world and crushed the teeth of the ruler of this world—being pursued, plotted against, insulted, spat upon. Do you see the invincible weapon? Do you see the victory and the craft? Do you see the unconquerable might\n\nof poverty according to God? Did you see how fearsome he is to the demons—the one clothed in humility? He is an imitator of the Lord, as has been said before, desired by the angels, honored by the apostles, numbered with the martyrs, fearsome to the demons, a conqueror of the world, an heir of the eternal and incorruptible goods. Fear never touches him; every legion of demons withdraws from him and cowers, seeing in him Christ, the conqueror of the world, who trampled them down and brought down their vain might.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":37,"ref":"p37","source":"ζʹ. Λοιπὸν, τεκνία, τὸν τρόπον μαθόντες καὶ τὴν τέχνην διδαχθέντες, μὴ ἀμελήσωμεν, ἀλλὰ μιμησώμεθα τὸν Κύριον ἡμῶν, καὶ διὰ τῆς ταπεινώσεως καὶ τῶν ἀρετῶν ὁμοιωθῶμεν αὐτῷ, καὶ νικήσωμεν τοῦ Κυρίου συνεργοῦντος· καὶ μάλιστα ἐπιθυμηταὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐκείνων, περὶ ὧν πολλάκις ἠκούσατε, μὴ ὀκνήσωμεν, μὴ δῶμεν ὕπνον τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ἡμῶν, μὴ νικηθῶμεν ὑπὸ τοῦ δεινοῦ κοσμοκράτορος, μήποτε εἴπῃ, ὅτι Ἴσχυσα πρὸς αὐτόν. Ὅρα οὖν, ἀγαπητὲ, μὴ ἐπινυστάξῃς σοῖς βλεφάροις· ὅρα οὖν μὴ νυστάξῃ ὁ φυλάσσων σε· κύκλῳ οἱ ἀσεβεῖς περιπατοῦσι· Ὁ ἀντίδικος ὑμῶν διάβολος ὡς λέων ὠρυόμενος ζητεῖ τίνα καταπίῃ. Ταῦτα εἰδότες, τεκνία, διεγείρωμεν ἑαυτοὺς, ἑτοιμασθῶμεν πρὸς πολέμους, καὶ πάλιν μετὰ μικρὸν ἕτοιμοι γενώμεθα πρὸς ἀπολογίαν. Ἕως πότε οὐ προσέχομεν τοῖς λόγοις τοῦ Κυρίου λέγοντος, Γίνεσθε ἕτοιμοι, δηλονότι πρὸς τὴν ἐντεῦθεν ἀποδημίαν; Εἶτα τοῦ κριτοῦ τότε ἀνοίγοντος τὰς βίβλους, οὐκ ἄλλας ξένας, ἃς οὐκ ἔγνωμεν, ἀλλὰ ταύτας, ἃς περιφέρομεν καὶ καθ' ἑκάστην ἀναγινώσκομεν καὶ ἀκούομεν, δεικνυούσας ἡμῖν κατὰ πᾶσαν αἰτίαν τὴν ἀσφαλῆ καὶ πάσης ἐντολῆς ἐργασίαν· τί δὴ ἀποκριθῶμεν; πῶς δὴ λάθωμεν τοὺς παρ' ἡμῶν διωχθέντας, καὶ Ἑτέρους περιφρονηθέντας καὶ πολλὰ δεινὰ παθόντας, μάλιστα δὲ πλησίον τοῦ κριτοῦ παρεστῶτας καὶ βοῶντας, ἐκδίκησον, Κύριε, ἡμᾶς λοιπόν· Θεὸς γὰρ ἐκδικήσεων ὑπάρχεις, Δέσποτα. Τί λοιπὸν ἔδει ποιῆσαι; εἴπατε, εἴ τι οἴδατε ὡς γὰρ ὁ λόγος ἀπέδειξεν, ἀδύνατον τὰς χεῖρας τοῦ κριτοῦ διαφυγεῖν· καὶ ὅτι οὐδὲν αὐτὸν λανθάνει ἔγνωμεν·","english":"6. Henceforth, little children, having learned the manner and been taught the craft, let us not be negligent, but let us imitate our Lord, and through humility and the virtues let us become like him, and let us conquer with the Lord working together with us; and especially let us who desire those good things, about which you have often heard, not hesitate, let us not give sleep to our eyes, let us not be conquered by the terrible ruler of this world, lest he say, I have prevailed against him. See then, beloved, that you do not doze upon your eyelids; see then that he who guards you does not slumber; the ungodly walk about in a circle; your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, seeks whom he may devour. Knowing these things, little children, let us rouse ourselves, let us be prepared for wars, and again after a little while let us become ready for defense. How long do we not attend to the words of the Lord who says, Be ready, evidently for the departure from here? Then, when the judge opens the books, not other strange ones, which we did not know, but these which we carry about and read and hear each day, showing us for every cause the sure working of every commandment—what then shall we answer? How then shall we escape the notice of those who have been persecuted by us, and others who have been despised and have suffered many terrible things, and especially those standing near the judge and crying out, Avenge us, O Lord, at last; for you are a God of vengeance, O Master. What then ought he to have done? Tell me, if you know anything; for as the argument has shown, it is impossible to escape the hands of the judge; and that nothing escapes him we have known.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":38,"ref":"p38","source":"ὅτι καὶ ὁ ᾅδης γυμνὸς φανήσεται, καὶ πάντα γυμνὰ τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ, οἴδαμεν, καὶ ὅτι πᾶν ἔργον καὶ πᾶσα πρᾶξις, κἄν τε ἀγαθὴ κἄν τε φαύλη, εἴτε μικρὰ εἴτε μεγάλη, εἰς μέσον τοῦ θεάτρου ἐκείνου ἐπὶ ἀγγέλων καὶ πασῶν δυνάμεων καὶ πάσης πνοῆς ἀναγινώσκεται ἀνθρωπίνης. Καὶ τοῦτο ἐδιδάχθημεν, ὅτι Τότε γενήσεται ὁ ἔπαινος ἑκάστῳ ἀπὸ Θεοῦ, καὶ ὅτι ἕκαστος τὸ ἴδιον φορτίον βαστάξει μεμαθήκαμεν, καὶ ὅτι οἱ ἕτοιμοι εἰσέρχονται μετ' αὐτοῦ εἰς τὰς αἰωνίους σκηνὰς ἐπιστώθημεν, καὶ ὅτι τοῖς ῥᾳθύμοις ἡ θύρα ἀποκέκλεισται οὐκ ἔλαθεν· ἵνα τὸ φοβερώτερον εἴπω, ὅτι τέλος αἱ κολάσεις οὐκ ἔχουσιν, ἀλλ' εἰς ἀπείρους αἰῶνας παρατείνουσιν, ἐδηλώθη ἡμῖν· καὶ ὅτι πάντες γυμνοὶ παραστησόμεθα τῷ βήματι τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἵνα κομίσηται ἕκαστος εἴ τι ἔπραξεν, καὶ τοῦτο ἠκούσαμεν· καὶ ὅτι ἡ κρίσις ἀνέλεος, οὐκ ἠπιστήσαμεν· καὶ ὅτι ἔρχεται κρῖναι ζῶντας καὶ νεκροὺς καὶ ἀποδοῦναι ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ, καθ' ἑκάστην ἐπὶ στόματος φέρομεν· καὶ ὅτι πᾶς ἁμαρτήσας καὶ ἀμελήσας τῆς μετανοίας, εἰς κόλασιν αἰώνιον ἐκπέμπεται, πάντες οἴδαμεν. Ταῦτα πάντα ἀσφαλῶς ἐπιστάμενοι, πῶς οὐ τρέμομεν; πῶς οὐκ ὀδυρόμεθα; πῶς οὐ διεγείρομεν ἀλλήλους, καὶ συμβουλευόμεθα βουλὴν σώζουσαν καὶ ἀρέσκουσαν Θεῷ; Δεῦτε οὖν ὁμοῦ, πάντες οἱ πιστοὶ καὶ φιλόθεοι, δεῦτε, συμφωνίᾳ συναχθῶμεν εἰ καὶ τὰ πέρατα ὅλα συναχθῆναι ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἀδύνατον, ἀλλὰ χώραν πρὸς χώραν· εἰ δὲ καὶ τοῦτο δύσκολον, κἂν πόλις καὶ τὰ περίχωρα αὐτῆς· καὶ συνερχομένων πολλῶν, ἀνακρίνωμεν ἀλλήλους περὶ τῶν φοβερῶν ἐκείνων κριτηρίων·","english":"We know that Hades too will be laid bare, and that all things are naked to his eyes, and that every work and every deed, whether good or evil, whether small or great, is read aloud in the midst of that theater before angels and all the powers and every human breath. And this we have been taught: that then praise will come to each one from God; and we have learned that each will bear his own burden; and we have been assured that the ready enter with him into the eternal tents; and it has not escaped us that the door is shut to the negligent. To speak of what is more fearful still: it has been made clear to us that their punishments have no end, but extend into boundless ages. And we have heard that we shall all stand naked before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive what he has done; and we have not disbelieved that the judgment is merciless; and that he comes to judge the living and the dead and to repay each according to his works, we carry on our lips every day; and that everyone who has sinned and neglected repentance is sent out into eternal punishment, we all know. Knowing all these things securely, how do we not tremble? How do we not lament? How do we not rouse one another and take counsel that saves and pleases God? Come then, all together, all you who are faithful and lovers of God, come, let us gather in harmony—even if it is impossible for all the ends of the earth to be gathered into one place, yet let country gather with country; and if even this is difficult, at least let city and its surrounding regions; and as many come together, let us question one another about those fearful judgments.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":39,"ref":"p39","source":"ἀρξώμεθα καὶ ἴδωμεν εἰ ἕτοιμοί ἐσμεν, ἴδωμεν περὶ ἑκάστου σφάλματος, ὁποῖον κρῖμα ἔγγραπτον ὁ Κύριος ἐποίησεν.\n\nΟὕτως ἕκαστος γνωρίσας τὸ ἴδιον σφάλμα, καὶ τὸ αὐτοῦ κατάκριμα, διορθώσεται πρὶν λυθῆναι τὴν πανήγυριν καὶ φθασθῇ ἀδιόρθωτος. Εἰ γὰρ βασιλεὺς τὰ χρεωστούμενα οὐ παραχωρεῖ, ἀλλὰ κατὰ ἀκρίβειαν ἀνύει, καὶ πᾶς ἄρχων τὰ ὀφείλοντα ἀπαιτεῖ, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ δίκαιος κριτὴς πάντα ἀπαιτήσει τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν; Διὰ τοῦτο παρακαλῶ τὴν ἐν Χριστῷ ἀγάπην ὑμῶν, μηδεὶς ἀπέλθῃ ἐντεῦθεν χρέος ἐπιφερόμενος. Ὧδε ἔνι τρόπος ἀπολογίας· ἔχεις πολλοὺς τρόπους· πολλαὶ γὰρ ὁδοὶ βίου. Εἰ γὰρ τὰ σφάλματα πολλὰ, πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἔλεος τοῦ Θεοῦ· ὅπερ καὶ πολλάκις ὑμῖν διηγήσαμεν, εἰ καὶ ἀνεκδιήγητόν ἐστι, καὶ πάλιν ὑπομνήσω τὴν ἐν Χριστῷ ἀγάπην ὑμῶν· ἀλλὰ νουνεχῶς ἀκούσωμεν μετὰ φόβου Κυρίου καὶ πολλῶν δακρύων. Οἱ ῥᾴθυμοι νήψωμεν, οἱ νυστάζοντες ἐξυπνίσωμεν, οἱ ἐν πειρασμοῖς πᾶσαν τὴν μέριμναν ἐπιῤῥίψωμεν ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον, καθὼς γέγραπται, ὅτι αὐτῷ μέλει περὶ ἡμῶν. Συναγάγωμεν ὧδε τὸν νοῦν, καὶ ἀκούσωμεν τρόπους χρηστοὺς, τρόπους σωτηρίας, τέχνας ψυχωφελεῖς, μέθοδον ἐπιστροφῆς καὶ μετανοίας, καὶ σύντομον θεῖον λόγον καὶ διδασκαλίαν ἀνόθευτον· μόνον, καθὼς προεῖπον, συντείνατέ μοι τὴν διάνοιαν, καὶ μηδεὶς νωθρῶς καὶ ῥᾳθύμως ἀκούσῃ· τὸν γὰρ τρόπον ὃν μέλλω λέγειν, πᾶν εἶδος σφάλματος ἀναμιμνήσκει πάντας τοὺς παρατυγχάνοντας, ὅπως ἕκαστος ἡμῶν τὸ ἴδιον γνωρίσας σφάλμα, δακρύσῃ, στενάξῃ, τὸ σφάλμα διορθωσάμενος, ἑτοιμάσῃ ἑαυτὸν πρὸς ἀπολογίαν.","english":"Let us begin and see whether we are ready; let us see, concerning each sin, what kind of written judgment the Lord has made. Thus each person, having recognized his own sin and his own condemnation, will correct it before the assembly is dissolved and he is overtaken uncorrected. For if a king does not waive what is owed, but exacts it with precision, and every ruler demands what is owed, how much more will the righteous judge demand all our debts? Therefore I entreat your love in Christ: let no one depart from here carrying a debt. Here there is a manner of defense; you have many means; for many are the paths of life. For if sins are many, much more is the mercy of God; which we have often recounted to you, even if it is beyond recounting, and again I will remind your love in Christ; but let us listen with understanding, with fear of the Lord and many tears. Let us who are slack be sober; let us who are drowsy awake; let us who are in temptations cast all our care upon the Lord, as it is written, that he cares for us. Let us gather our mind here, and let us hear goodly means, means of salvation, skills profitable to the soul, a method of turning and repentance, and a concise divine word and unadulterated teaching; only, as I said before, stretch your mind with me, and let no one listen sluggishly and slackly; for the manner I am about to speak of reminds all those present of every kind of sin, so that each of us, having recognized his own sin, may weep, may groan, and having corrected the sin, may prepare himself for defense.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":40,"ref":"p40","source":"Εἰς ἀνάμνησιν πάλιν βούλομαι ὑμᾶς ἀγαγεῖν τῶν σκυθρωπῶν καὶ φρικτῶν κολάσεων, καθὼς καὶ ἐν ἀρχῇ τοῦ λόγου πεποίηκα· ταῦτα γὰρ εἰπόντες, ἐβλάψαμεν οὐδὲν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον καὶ μεγάλως ὠφελήσαμεν· ῥανὶς γὰρ ἐνδελεχοῦσα κοιλαίνει πέτραν, καθὼς γέγραπται. Πόθεν οὖν ἄρξωμαι; ποῖον δὲ σφάλμα, ἢ ποῖον νόσημα προσαγάγω, ἵνα καὶ τὴν ἁρμόζουσαν τῇ νόσῳ ἴασιν ἐπαγάγω; Πάντως τὸ πρῶτον κακόν. Καὶ ποῖον ἄρα ἐστὶ τοῦτο; Δηλονότι ὑπερηφανία, ἥτις ἐπὶ γῆς ἄνωθεν κατέσπασε τὸν ἑωσφόρον. Λοιπὸν ἄκουε ἐν πρώτοις, ὑπερήφανε· σὺ μνήσθητι τοῦ γεγραμμένου· Ὁ Θεὸς ὑπερηφάνοις ἀντιτάσσεται, καὶ μακρὰν ἀπὸ σοῦ τὴν δεινὴν ταύτην ἀῤῥωστίαν ποίησον, ἵνα μὴ ἀντιτασσόμενον εὑρήσῃς τὸν Θεόν· μνήσθητι τοῦ πεσόντος ἐπὶ γῆς ἄνωθεν, καὶ ἀντὶ τῆς μετὰ Θεοῦ διαγωγῆς καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν συλλειτουργῶν ἀγγέλων, τοῖς καταχθονίοις κατοικοῦντος ἐν σκοτεινοῖς καὶ ἐν τῇ ἀπωλείᾳ· ἐννοῶν ἀεὶ τὸν Κύριον τῆς δόξης πλούσιον ὄντα, πῶς ἐπτώχευσεν. Μνήσθητι τὰς κατ' αὐτοῦ ἐπιβουλὰς καὶ συκοφαντίας τά τε ῥαπίσματα, καὶ φρίξας ταπεινώθητι, ἵνα σωθῇς καὶ ὑψωθῇς ἐν καιρῷ ἐπισκοπῆς· ἐγγὺς γὰρ Κύριος τοῖς συντετριμμένοις τῇ καρδίᾳ· καὶ ὅτι ὁ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται. Οἱ δὲ ἐν πορνείαις πλανηθέντες, ἀποστήτωσαν, καὶ μηδέποτε πλανηθήτωσαν, ἀλλὰ μνημονευέτωσαν τοῦ Ἀποστόλου κράζοντος, ὅτι Πόρνους καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεός· καὶ, ὅτι Πᾶν ἁμάρτημα, ὃ ἐὰν ποιήσῃ ἄνθρωπος, ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματός ἐστιν· ὁ δὲ πορνεύων, εἰς τὸ ἴδιον σῶμα ἁμαρτάνει· καὶ, ὅτι Πόρνοι βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν.","english":"Again I wish to bring you to the remembrance of the gloomy and dreadful punishments, just as I did also at the beginning of the discourse; for in saying these things we have harmed nothing, but rather have greatly benefited—for a drop continually falling hollows out a rock, as it is written. From where, then, shall I begin? And what fault, or what disease shall I bring forward, so that I may also apply the healing suited to the disease? Surely the first evil. And what, then, is this? Clearly pride, which dragged down the morning star from heaven to earth. Henceforth hear first, you who are proud: remember what is written—God opposes the proud—and put far from you this dreadful sickness, lest you find God opposing you. Remember him who fell from heaven to earth, and who, instead of dwelling with God and the rest of the fellow-serving angels, dwells in the dark places beneath the earth and in destruction. Ever considering the Lord of glory, rich as he was, how he became poor. Remember the plots and slanders against him, and the blows, and shuddering be humbled, so that you may be saved and exalted in the time of visitation; for the Lord is near to those who are crushed in heart; and that he who humbles himself will be exalted. But let those who have wandered in fornication depart, and never wander again, but let them remember the Apostle crying out, that God will judge fornicators and adulterers; and that every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body; and that fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":41,"ref":"p41","source":"Μὴ ἐπιλάθεσθε δὲ καὶ τοῦ μολύναντος ἐν πορνείᾳ τὴν νυμφικὴν στολὴν καὶ μετ' αἰσχύνης τοῦ βασιλικοῦ γάμου ἐκβληθέντος, καὶ Μετανοεῖτε· ἤγγικεν γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.\n\nΟἱ μοιχοὶ, φρίξατε τὴν θείαν φωνὴν τὴν λέγουσαν, Μὴ μοιχεύσεις· καὶ τοῦ Ἀποστόλου βοῶντος, Πόρνους καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεός. Μνήσθητε δὲ καὶ τοῦ Σολομῶντος λέγοντος, Ὁ δὲ μοιχὸς δι' ἔνδειαν φρενῶν ἀπώλειαν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ψυχῇ περιποιεῖται. Ἀκούσατε δὲ τοῦ Κυρίου πρὸς τὴν μοιχαλίδα βοῶντος, Ἄπελθε, καὶ μηκέτι ἁμάρτανε. Καὶ συντόμως, Μετανοήσατε· ἀκούσατε τοῦ Ἀποστόλου κηρύσσοντος, ὅτι Ἀποκαλύπτεται γὰρ ὀργὴ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ἀσέβειαν καὶ ἀδικίαν ἀνθρώπων. Οἱ ἐν ἄρσεσιν ἄρσενες τὴν ἀσχημοσύνην κατεργαζόμενοι, τρομάξατε καὶ\n\nπρὶν τὸν Κριτὴν παραγενέσθαι, καὶ μάλιστα παρὰ φύσιν τολμήσαντες, λογιζόμενοι πῶς αἱ κολάσεις τοὺς τοιούτους διαδέξονται, ἐὰν μὴ ἐμπόνως κατὰ ἀναλογίαν τοῦ πταίσματος μετανοήσωσι. Μνημονεύετε τοῦ Ἀποστόλου βοῶντος, ὅτι Ἄδικοι βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν, οὔτε πόρνοι οὔτε μοιχοὶ οὔτε μαλακοὶ οὔτε ἀρσενοκοῖται βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσι. Καὶ ἐκ ποίας αἰτίας εἰς τὸ χαλεπὸν τοῦτο πτῶμα κατεῤῥάγησαν; εἰπὲ, Παῦλε. Διότι, φησὶν, Οὐκ ἐδοκίμασαν ἔχειν τὸν Θεὸν ἐν ἐπιγνώσει, παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ Θεὸς ἐν ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις τῶν καρδιῶν αὐτῶν εἰς ἀκαθαρσίαν τοῦ ἀτιμάζεσθαι τὰ σώματα αὐτῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς. Εἶδες τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ δεινοῦ πτώματος; Διὰ τοῦτο παραινεῖ ὁ αὐτὸς ἀπόστολος μὴ εἶναι ἡμᾶς ἐπιθυμητὰς κακῶν, μηδὲ δούλους παθῶν· Ὧ γάρ τις ἥττηται, τούτῳ καὶ δεδούλωται.","english":"Do not forget also the one who defiled the bridal garment in fornication and was cast out with shame from the royal wedding, and \"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\"\n\nAdulterers, shudder at the divine voice that says, \"You shall not commit adultery\"; and at the Apostle crying out, \"God will judge fornicators and adulterers.\" Remember also Solomon saying, \"But the adulterer, through lack of understanding, brings destruction upon his own soul.\" Hear also the Lord crying out to the adulteress, \"Go, and sin no more.\" And briefly, \"Repent\"; hear the Apostle proclaiming that \"the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.\" You males who in males work shamefulness, tremble also\n\nbefore the Judge arrives, and especially you who have dared things contrary to nature, considering how the punishments will succeed such people, unless they repent strenuously in proportion to their offense. Remember the Apostle crying out that \"the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God, neither fornicators nor adulterers nor the effeminate nor homosexuals will inherit the kingdom of God.\" And for what cause were they hurled down into this grievous fall? Tell us, Paul. Because, he says, \"They did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.\" Did you see the cause of the terrible fall? For this reason the same apostle exhorts us not to be desirers of evil things, nor slaves of passions; \"for by whatever one is defeated, to that he is also enslaved.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":42,"ref":"p42","source":"Διὰ τοῦτο δεῖ πάντοτε προσεύχεσθαι, πάντοτε δακρύειν καὶ θρηνεῖν, ὅπως ῥύσηται ἡμᾶς ὁ Κύριος ἐκ τοῦ κακοῦ φρονήματος τοῦ σώματος τοῦ θανάτου τούτου· καὶ ἐπιθυμήσωμεν κἄν ποτε τὰ ὄντως ἐπιθυμητὰ ἐκεῖνα, εἰς ἃ καὶ ἄγγελοι ἐπιθυμοῦσι παρακύψαι. ηʹ. Ταῦτα καὶ ἡμεῖς ποθήσωμεν, καὶ σπουδάσωμεν μετανοῆσαι, καὶ διὰ τῆς μετανοίας πάλιν ἄσπιλοι γενέσθαι, καθὼς καὶ πρὸ τοῦ καταπεσεῖν. Τοιοῦτον γάρ ἐστι τὸ εἶδος καὶ ἡ δύναμις τοῦ τιμίου κτήματος τῆς μετανοίας· εἰς τὴν πρώτην τιμὴν, ἣν εἶχε πρὸ τοῦ σφάλματος, ἀποκαθιστᾷ πάλιν τὸν μετανοοῦντα. Τολμῶ εἰπεῖν, ὅτι καὶ ὑψηλότεροί τινες γεγόνασι. Πολλὰ κοπιάσαντες, καὶ περισσοτέρως δακρύσαντες, ἀπέπλυναν τὴν δυσωδίαν τῆς ἁμαρτίας κατὰ τὸν λέγοντα· Πλυνεῖς με, καὶ ὑπὲρ χιόνα λευκανθήσομαι. Σπουδῆς δὲ πολλῆς χρεία, ὅτι ᾗ ὥρᾳ οὐκ οἴδαμεν, ὁ ἀπαιτῶν ἁρπάσει, καὶ οὐδεὶς ὁ ῥυόμενος. Ὅθεν ἡ θεία φωνὴ ἀπαύστως βοᾷ, Γίνεσθε ἕτοιμοι. Ὁ κρίνειν λαχὼν, φεῦγε τοῦ κρίνειν, τοῦ Κυρίου λέγοντος, Μὴ κρίνετε· καὶ μὴ παραιτοῦ πάλιν διακαταπονούμενον, ἀλλὰ τοῦ Κυρίου μνημόνευε τοῦ λέγοντος· Μὴ κρίνετε κατ' ὄψιν, ἀλλὰ τὴν δικαίαν κρίσιν κρίνατε· καὶ πάλιν· Μὴ καταδικάσητε, καὶ οὐ μὴ καταδικασθῆτε. Εἰ δὲ τὸν ἕτερον κρίνων σὺ τὰ αὐτὰ πράσσεις, οὐκ ἐκφεύξεις τὸ κρῖμα τοῦ Θεοῦ.","english":"Therefore it is necessary to pray always, to weep and lament always, so that the Lord may rescue us from the evil mind of this body of death; and let us long even once for those things that are truly desirable, into which even angels long to look. 9. Let us too desire these things, and let us be zealous to repent, and through repentance to become again without stain, just as before we fell. For such is the nature and the power of the precious possession of repentance: it restores the penitent again to the first honor that he had before his fall. I dare to say that some have even become higher. Having labored much and wept more abundantly, they washed away the foul stench of sin, according to him who says: You shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow. But there is need of much zeal, because at the hour we do not know, the one who demands will snatch us away, and there is no one to rescue. Therefore the divine voice cries out unceasingly: Be ready. You who have obtained the lot of judging, flee from judging, since the Lord says: Do not judge; and do not again decline when you are earnestly pressed, but remember the Lord who says: Do not judge by appearance, but judge with righteous judgment; and again: Do not condemn, and you shall certainly not be condemned. But if you judge another while doing the same things yourself, you will not escape the judgment of God.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":43,"ref":"p43","source":"Ἄκουε τοῦ Ἀποστόλου ἐπιπλήττοντος τοὺς τοιούτους καὶ λέγοντος· Διὸ ἀναπολόγητος εἶ, ἄνθρωπε, ὁ κρίνων τοὺς τοιαῦτα πράσσοντας, καὶ ποιῶν αὐτά· ἐν ᾧ γὰρ κρίνεις τὸν ἕτερον, ἑαυτὸν κατακρίνεις. Ὁ οὖν διδάσκων ἕτερον, σεαυτὸν οὐ διδάσκεις; ὁ κηρύσσων μὴ κλέπτειν, κλέπτεις; ὁ λέγων μὴ μοιχεύειν, μοιχεύεις; Ἔκβαλε πρῶτον τὴν δοκὸν ἐκ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ σου, καθὼς ἔφη ὁ Κύριος· Ἐν ᾧ γὰρ, φησὶ, κρίματι κρίνετε, κριθήσεσθε. Ὅρα οὖν ὁ κρίνων, μὴ λάβῃς δῶρα ἐπ' ἀθώοις· γέγραπται γάρ· Οὐαὶ οἱ δικαιοῦντες τὸν ἀσεβῆ ἕνεκεν δώρων, καὶ τὸ δίκαιον τοῦ δικαίου αἴροντες. Εἴ τις οὖν τῶν δικαστῶν καὶ κριτῶν εὕροι ἑαυτὸν ἔνοχον ἐν τούτοις, σπουδάσῃ διὰ μετανοίας ἑαυτὸν ἀνέγκλητον ποιῆσαι· ἰδοὺ γὰρ ὁ κριτὴς τῶν κριτῶν πρὸ τῶν θυρῶν ἕστηκε. Μηκέτι οὖν ἀλλήλους κρίνωμεν, ἀλλ' ἀλλήλους ἀγαπήσωμεν, ἀλλήλοις βοηθήσωμεν, ὑπὲρ ἀλλήλων εὐξώμεθα, ὅπως ἰαθῶμεν ἀπεντεῦθεν χάριτι τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.\n\nΕἴ τις τῷ θυμῷ καὶ τῇ ὀργῇ δεδούλωται, ἄκουε τοῦ Ἀποστόλου λέγοντος· Πᾶσα πικρία καὶ θυμὸς καὶ ὀργὴ ἀρθήτω ἀφ' ὑμῶν· καὶ πάλιν· Ὀργὴ ἀνδρὸς δικαιοσύνην Θεοῦ οὐ κατεργάζεται· καὶ πάλιν, Ἀπόθεσθε ὀργὴν, θυμὸν, κακίαν, βλασφημίαν, αἰσχρολογίαν ἐκ τοῦ στόματος ὑμῶν. Προηγουμένως δὲ ἄκουε καὶ τοῦ προφήτου παραινοῦντός σε· Παῦσαι ἀπὸ ὀργῆς, καὶ ἐγκατάλειπε θυμόν. Εἶτα καὶ ὁ Σολομών φησιν· Ἀνδρὶ θυμώδει μὴ συναυλίζου. Ὁ γὰρ τοιοῦτος οὐκ ἔστι δοῦλος Θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ κατέχοντος αὐτὸν πάθους, καθὼς γέγραπται· Ὧ γὰρ ἥττηται, τούτῳ καὶ δεδούλωται. Καὶ","english":"Listen to the Apostle rebuking such people and saying: Therefore you are without excuse, O man, you who judge those who practice such things and do them yourself; for in that you judge another, you condemn yourself. So you who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal? You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? First cast out the beam from your own eye, as the Lord said; for with the judgment you judge, he says, you will be judged. See then, you who judge, that you do not take gifts against the innocent; for it is written: Woe to those who justify the ungodly for the sake of gifts, and take away the righteousness of the righteous. If therefore any of the judges and magistrates finds himself guilty in these things, let him strive through repentance to make himself blameless; for behold, the Judge of judges stands before the doors. Let us therefore no longer judge one another, but let us love one another, help one another, pray for one another, so that we may be healed from here by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\nIf anyone is enslaved to anger and wrath, listen to the Apostle saying: Let all bitterness and anger and wrath be taken away from you; and again: The wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God; and again, Put away anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. But first listen also to the prophet advising you: Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Then Solomon also says: Do not dwell with a wrathful man. For such a person is not a servant of God, but of the passion that possesses him, as it is written: For by whatever one is defeated, by that he is also enslaved. And","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":44,"ref":"p44","source":"διὰ τάχους τὴν ὀργὴν ἀναῤῥίψαντες, ἐμπόνως μετανοήσατε, ἵνα μὴ ἁρπαγέντες ἀπενεχθῆτε εἰς τὸν τόπον ἐκεῖνον, ἔνθα συνάγονται τὰ τῆς ὀργῆς τέκνα, ἐξ οὗ ῥυσθείημεν χάριτι τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. Οἱ γαστρίμαργοι καὶ κατασπαταλῶντες, ἀκούσατε τοῦ Κυρίου κράζοντος μετὰ ἀπειλῆς· Οὐαὶ οἱ ἐμπεπλησμένοι, ὅτι πεινάσουσι· καὶ τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος· Ἔφαγεν Ἰακὼβ καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη, καὶ ἐγκατέλιπε Θεὸν τὸν ποιήσαντα αὐτόν. Ὁρᾷς ὡς καὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ χωρίζονται οἱ τρυφῶντες, περὶ ὧν καὶ ὁ Ἀπόστολος ἀθέους ἀποδεικνὺς ἔλεγεν· Ὧν ὁ θεὸς ἡ κοιλία, καὶ ἡ δόξα ἐν τῇ αἰσχύνῃ αὐτῶν, οἱ τὰ ἐπίγεια φρονοῦντες. Ἄκουε πάλιν τοῦ Θεοῦ πῶς προασφαλίζεται πᾶσι διὰ Μωϋσέως, καὶ λέγει· Πρόσεχε σεαυτῷ, μή ποτε φαγὼν καὶ ἐμπλησθεὶς ἐπιλάθῃ Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ σου· καὶ σπουδαίως καταλιπὼν τὴν τρυφὴν τὴν μητέρα πάντων τῶν παθῶν καὶ πάσης δυσωδίας, ἐπιλάβου τῆς εὐωδίας, ἤγουν τῆς ἐγκρατείας, τὸν καρπὸν τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, καθὼς ὁ Ἀπόστολος ἐδίδαξε· καὶ πρόσεχε σεαυτῷ, ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσῃς καὶ σὺ, καθὼς ὁ σπαταληστὴς ἐκεῖνος πλούσιος, ὁ καὶ μισόπτωχος, ὅτι Ἀπέλαβες τὰ ἀγαθά σου ἐν τῇ ζωῇ σου· καὶ ἀντέχου τῆς μετανοίας, τοῦ κεφαλαίου τῆς σωτηρίας ἡμῶν, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδαμεν τὴν ἡμέραν οὐδὲ τὴν ὥραν, ἐν ᾗ ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν ἔρχεται. Οἱ ἐν μέθαις ἡττώμενοι, καὶ τῆς ἀκηράτου βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν ἑαυτοὺς ἀποσχοινίζοντες ἰδίᾳ γνώμῃ, ἀκούσατε τοῦ προφήτου κηρύσσοντος· Οὐαὶ οἱ μεθύοντες· καὶ τοῦ Ἀποστόλου λέγοντος, ὅτι Μέθυσοι βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσι·","english":"Swiftly cast away anger, repent with earnest effort, lest you be snatched away and carried off to that place where the children of wrath are gathered together, from which may we be delivered by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. You gluttons and those who live in luxury, hear the Lord crying out with a threat: Woe to you who are filled, for you shall hunger; and the prophet saying: Jacob ate and was filled, and he forsook God who made him. Do you see how those who live in luxury are separated from God, concerning whom the Apostle also, showing them to be godless, said: Whose god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Hear again how God forewarns all through Moses, and says: Take heed to yourself, lest when you have eaten and are filled you forget the Lord your God; and earnestly forsaking luxury, the mother of all the passions and of all foulness, lay hold of the sweet fragrance, that is, of self-control, the fruit of the Holy Spirit, as the Apostle taught; and take heed to yourself, lest you too hear, as that rich man who lived in luxury, who also hated the poor, heard: You have received your good things in your life; and hold fast to repentance, the chief of our salvation, because we do not know the day nor the hour in which our Lord comes. You who are overcome by drunkenness, and by your own choice cut yourselves off from the undefiled kingdom of heaven, hear the prophet proclaiming: Woe to those who are drunk; and the Apostle saying: Drunkards shall not inherit the kingdom of God.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":45,"ref":"p45","source":"καὶ πάλιν παραγγέλλοντος, Μὴ μεθύσκεσθε οἴνῳ ἐν ᾧ ἐστιν ἀσωτία, καὶ καταλιπόντες τὸν οἶνον, μᾶλλον δὲ τὴν μέθην τὴν ἔξω ἀποκλείουσαν τῆς βασιλείας, ἐπιποθήσατε ἐκεῖνον τὸν οἶνον, ὃν ὁ Θεὸς ἐκ τῶν ἁγίων Γραφῶν ἐκέρασεν ἡμῖν κατὰ τὸν προφήτην, οἶνον κατανύξεως· ὃν οἱ πιόντες, ἐν κατανύξει μετανοήσατε δακρύοντες· γλυκέα γὰρ τὰ ῥήματα τοῦ Κυρίου. Οἱ ἐν σαρκὶ πεποιθότες καὶ ἐπὶ ἰδίᾳ ματαιότητι, ἀκούσατε τοῦ Θεοῦ διὰ στόματος τῶν ἁγίων βοῶντος· Πᾶσα σὰρξ χόρτος, καὶ πᾶσα δόξα ἀνθρώπου ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου· καὶ πάλιν, Στηρίζων σάρκα βραχίονος αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ματαία σωτηρία ἀνθρώπου. Διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὁ Ἀπόστολος γράφει· Ἵνα μὴ πεποιθότες ὦμεν ἐφ' ἑαυτοῖς, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ τῷ Θεῷ, καθὼς ὁ προφήτης τὰ ὅμοια λέγει· Ἀγαθὸν πεποιθέναι ἐπὶ Κύριον, ἢ πεποιθέναι ἐπ' ἄνθρωπον. Καὶ μετανοήσατε· ἔρχεται γὰρ ὁ κριτὴς ὁ ἀπροσωπόληπτος καταργῆσαι πᾶσαν ἀρχὴν καὶ ἐξουσίαν καὶ δύναμιν· οὐδὲν γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἰσχυρότερον. Οἱ τὰ περίεργα ἐπιτηδεύοντες λαθροφονευταὶ, οἱ τοῦ τόπου τῶν φονέων κληρονόμοι, οἱ κρύφιοι λύκοι, οἱ σαρκικοὶ δαίμονες, οἱ τῶν καταχθονίων οἰκήτορες, οἱ τοῦ αἰωνίου σκότους υἱοὶ καὶ τοῦ ἀσβέστου πυρὸς τέκνα, ἀκούσατε τί διηγεῖται ὁ ἅγιος εὐαγγελιστὴς Λουκᾶς περὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσι τῶν ἀποστόλων λέγων· Πολλοὶ δὲ τῶν τὰ περίεργα πραξάντων, συνενέγκαντες τὰς βίβλους, κατέκαιον ἐνώπιον πάντων, καὶ συνεψηφίσαντο τὰς τιμὰς αὐτῶν, καὶ εὗρον ἀργυρίου μυριάδας πέντε. Εἶδες ὑπακοὴν ὀξεῖαν καὶ σωτηρίαν σύντομον; εἶδες πῶς ἐπληθύνθησαν αἱ ἀσθένειαι αὐτῶν; Ἀλλὰ τὸ τάχος τῆς ὑπακοῆς πάντα κατώρθωσε.","english":"And again, when he commands, Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, and when you have abandoned wine—or rather the drunkenness that shuts one out from the kingdom—desire instead that wine which God has mixed for us from the holy Scriptures, according to the prophet, the wine of compunction; and you who have drunk it, repent in compunction, weeping; for sweet are the words of the Lord. You who trust in the flesh and in your own vanity, hear God crying out through the mouth of the saints: All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass; and again, He who strengthens flesh with his arm, for vain is the salvation of man. Therefore also the Apostle writes: That we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, just as the prophet says the same things: It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in man. And repent; for the judge who shows no partiality is coming to bring to nothing every principality and authority and power; for nothing is stronger than he. You who practice curious arts, secret murderers, heirs of the place of murderers, hidden wolves, fleshly demons, inhabitants of the underworld, sons of eternal darkness and children of the unquenchable fire, hear what the holy evangelist Luke relates concerning such people in the Acts of the Apostles, saying: And many of those who had practiced curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all, and they counted the prices of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. Did you see the swift obedience and the speedy salvation? Did you see how their infirmities were multiplied? But the swiftness of their obedience set all things right.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":46,"ref":"p46","source":"Καὶ ὑμεῖς οἱ τὰ ὅμοια πλανώμενοι, καὶ γνώμῃ ἀπατώμενοι, καταπτύσαντες τὴν τοιαύτην χαλεπὴν καὶ ἀπάνθρωπον ἀπάτην, καὶ ὡς ἀπὸ ὄφεως ἀποφυγόντες, σπουδάσατε ἀξίαν μετάνοιαν ἐπιδείξασθαι, πρὶν φθάσῃ ἡμῖν ἡ ἀνυπόστατος κατὰ τῶν τοιούτων ἀπειλὴ καὶ οἰμωγή· ὁ γὰρ καιρὸς ἐγγὺς, καὶ μὴ ἀμελῆτε. Οἱ τὸ δυσίατον νοσοῦντες πάθος, τὸν φθόνον λέγω καὶ βασκανίαν, μνήσθητε τῶν φθονερῶν ἐκείνων τῶν ἀκουσάντων· Ἑταῖρε, οὐκ ἀδικῶ σε, ἆρον τὸ σὸν, καὶ ὕπαγε. Ποῦ ἄρα; Δηλονότι εἰς τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον. Καὶ ἀποῤῥίψαντες τὴν τοιαύτην ἀῤῥωστίαν, μετανοήσατε· Φοβερὸν γὰρ τὸ ἐμπεσεῖν εἰς χεῖρας Θεοῦ ζῶντος. Οἱ τὰς θείας\n\nΓραφὰς ἐξουθενοῦντες, καὶ τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα ἐνυβρίζοντες τὸ λαλῆσαν διὰ στόματος τῶν ἐν τῇ Παλαιᾷ καὶ Καινῇ Διαθήκῃ, τί ποιήσετε ἐν τῇ φρικτῇ ἐκείνῃ ὥρᾳ, ὅταν τὸ κριτήριον καθίσῃ, καὶ ἀνοιχθῶσιν αἱ βίβλοι, ἃς νῦν βδελύσσεσθε καὶ ἀποστρέφεσθε; ποῦ φύγητε; ποῦ κρυβήσεσθε ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ λαλήσαντος πᾶσαν θείαν Γραφὴν, καὶ πᾶσαν ἱερὰν βίβλον συντάξαντος; Οὐαὶ καὶ ἀπώλεια καταλήψεται ὑμᾶς, εἰμὴ ταχέως ἀναλάβησθε θρῆνον καὶ ὀδυρμὸν, καὶ δυσωπήσητε ὃν παρωξύνατε, παράκλητον Θεόν. Οὐκ ἀκούετε τοῦ Κυρίου λέγοντος, Ἐρευνᾶτε τὰς Γραφάς; Οὐκ ἀκούετε πῶς πεπλανημένους ἐκάλεσε τοὺς μὴ εἰδότας τὰς Γραφάς; Ἀκούσατε τοῦ Ἀποστόλου θεόπνευστον αὐτὴν καλοῦντος καὶ ὠφέλιμον, καὶ λόγον ὑγιαίνοντά τε καὶ ἰατρεύοντα, καὶ ἱερὰ Γράμματα καλοῦντος, καὶ νόμον ἐλευθερίας. Ἀκούσατε πάλιν πῶς διὰ τοῦ Σολομῶντος τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα ἀσεβεῖς ὑμᾶς ἐκάλεσε, λέγον· Σοφίαν δὲ καὶ παιδείαν ἀσεβεῖς ἐξουθενήσουσι.","english":"And you who are led astray in similar ways and deceived in judgment, spit out such a harsh and inhuman deception, and as if fleeing from a serpent, hasten to show repentance worthy of it, before the irresistible threat and wailing against such people overtakes us; for the time is near, and do not be negligent. You who are sick with a hard-to-cure passion—I mean envy and malice—remember those envious men who heard: Friend, I do you no wrong; take what is yours and go. Where then? Clearly into the outer darkness. And having cast off such weakness, repent; for it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. You who despise the divine Scriptures and insult the Holy Spirit who spoke through the mouth of those in the Old and New Testaments, what will you do in that dreadful hour, when the judgment seat is set and the books are opened, which you now loathe and turn away from? Where will you flee? Where will you hide from the face of him who spoke every divine Scripture and composed every sacred book? Woe and destruction will overtake you, unless you quickly take up lamentation and mourning and entreat the God whom you provoked, the Advocate. Do you not hear the Lord saying, Search the Scriptures? Do you not hear how he called those who did not know the Scriptures deceived? Hear the Apostle calling it God-inspired and profitable, and a sound and healing word, and calling it sacred writings, and a law of liberty. Hear again how through Solomon the Holy Spirit called you impious, saying: But wisdom and instruction the impious will despise.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":47,"ref":"p47","source":"θʹ. Ταῦτα ἀκούοντες, μετανοήσατε καὶ ἑτοιμάζεσθε πρὸς ἀπολογίαν, πρὶν ἐλθεῖν τὴν ἡμέραν Κυρίου. Καὶ ἵνα συνελὼν τὰ πάντα εἴπω, πᾶς ἄνθρωπος, ὅστις ἐὰν μὴ σπουδάσῃ ἀπεντεῦθεν διορθώσασθαι, ἀλλ' ἔτι χρῄζων ὅτι Ἀποκαλύπτεται ὀργὴ Θεοῦ ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ, οὐχὶ διορθώσεως, ἀποδημήσῃ, ὁ τοιοῦτος καὶ προσδοκάτω. ἐπὶ τήνδε ἁμαρτίαν ἢ τήνδε, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ἀσέβειαν καὶ ἀδικίαν ἀνθρώπου, ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν. Οὐ γάρ ἐστι διαστολή· πάντες γὰρ ἡμάρτομεν. Διὰ τοῦτο ὁ ἱερὸς Ἀπόστολος κατὰ τὴν χάριν τὴν δοθεῖσαν αὐτῷ καὶ περὶ γυναικῶν ἔγραψε λέγων· Γυναῖκας σεμνὰς, διακόνους πιστὰς ἐν πᾶσι. Διδάσκειν δὲ γυναικὶ οὐκ ἐπιτρέπω, οὐδὲ διαυθεντεῖν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς, ἀλλ' εἶναι ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ, οἰκουροὺς, καλοδιδασκάλους, Ἵνα σωφρονίζωσι τὰς νέας φιλάνδρους εἶναι, μὴ οἴνῳ πολλῷ δεδουλωμένας. Καὶ περὶ χηρῶν ἔγραψεν οὕτω· Χήρας τίμα, τὰς ὄντως χήρας. Ἥτις προσμένει ταῖς δεήσεσι καὶ ταῖς προσευχαῖς, Εἰ ἐτεκνοτρόφησεν, εἰ ἐξενοδόχησεν, εἰ ἁγίων πόδας ἔνιψεν, εἰ θλιβομένοις ἐπήρκεσεν, εἰ παντὶ ἔργῳ ἀγαθῷ ἐπηκολούθησε. Καὶ περὶ πρεσβυτέρων τε καὶ πρεσβυτίδων ἐλάλησε τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα διὰ στόματος τῶν ἁγίων, καὶ περὶ δούλων τε καὶ δεσποτῶν διετάξατο, καὶ περὶ βασιλέων εἶπε, καὶ περὶ στρατιωτῶν ἐλάλησε, καὶ περὶ ἐπισκόπων ἐτύπωσε, καὶ οὐδὲν τῶν συμφερόντων παρέδραμεν· ἐπειδὴ, καθὼς ἔφη, Ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ἀσέβειαν καὶ ἀδικίαν μικρῶν τε καὶ μεγάλων ἀποκαλύπτεται ὀργὴ ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ.","english":"9. Hearing these things, repent and prepare yourselves for defense, before the day of the Lord comes. And to sum up everything in a word: every person who does not hasten to set himself right from this point on, but still needs—since the wrath of God is revealed from heaven—not correction but departure, let such a one also expect this: not for this sin or that, but for all ungodliness and unrighteousness of man, of men and women alike. For there is no distinction, for we have all sinned. Therefore the holy Apostle, according to the grace given to him, also wrote concerning women, saying: Women who are reverent, deacons faithful in all things. But I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to have authority over a man, but to be in quietness, keepers at home, teachers of what is good, that they may train the younger women to be lovers of their husbands, not enslaved to much wine. And concerning widows he wrote thus: Honor widows who are truly widows. She who continues in supplications and prayers, if she raised children, if she showed hospitality, if she washed the feet of the saints, if she relieved the afflicted, if she followed every good work. And concerning elders and elder women the Holy Spirit spoke through the mouths of the saints, and concerning slaves and masters he gave orders, and concerning kings he spoke, and concerning soldiers he spoke, and concerning bishops he set forth a pattern, and he passed over nothing of what is profitable; since, as he said, upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of small and great alike the wrath of God is revealed from heaven.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":48,"ref":"p48","source":"Πάντα ὑπέμνησα τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ἀγάπῃ, ἵνα εἴδητε πάντα τὰ προστάγματα, καὶ πᾶσα ἀρχὴ καὶ ἐξουσία καὶ πᾶσα ἡλικία μάθῃ τὴν βουλὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τὸ θέλημα, καὶ τὴν φοβερὰν αὐτοῦ ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ παρουσίαν, καὶ τὰς φοβερὰς κολάσεις, καὶ τὸν ὀδυνηρὸν ἐκεῖνον χωρισμὸν, καὶ σπουδάσῃ ἕκαστος τὸν ἑαυτοῦ βίον διορθώσασθαι, καὶ ἑαυτὸν ἑτοιμάσαι πρὸς ἀπολογίαν, καὶ μὴ τῇ ῥᾳθυμίᾳ ἑαυτὸν παραδῷ, καὶ ἀποτύχῃ τῶν ἀνεκφωνητῶν καὶ αἰωνίων ἀγαθῶν. Ὅρα οὖν, ὦ ῥᾴθυμε σὺ, μὴ ἐμμείνῃς τῇ ῥᾳθυμίᾳ, μὴ νικῶ ὑπὸ τῆς ἀπάτης καὶ ἡδονῆς. Βλέπε μὴ διὰ τοῦ πλούτου τῆς χρηστότητος τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τῆς ἀνοχῆς καὶ τῆς μακροθυμίας καταφρονῇς, καὶ θησαυρίσῃς σεαυτῷ ὀργὴν, καθὼς λέγει ὁ Ἀπόστολος, ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ὀργῆς. Ἐπίστρεψον λοιπὸν, νῆψον, γρηγόρησον· ἀρκετὸς γὰρ ὁ παρελθὼν καιρός· ἐν τῇ ἀπάτῃ καὶ φιληδονίᾳ σου μὴ ἐπιμείνῃς, μὴ ἐμβαθύνῃς ἐν τῇ ἀδικίᾳ σου. Οὐχ ὁρᾷς τὸν ἄγγελον ἀκολουθοῦντα καὶ γράφοντά σου τὰς πράξεις; οὐκ οἶδας, ὅτι κατὰ τὴν σκληρότητά σου καὶ ἐπιμονὴν τὸ ἕλκος μεῖζον γίνεται, καὶ βαρύτερον γράφεται, καὶ ὀργὴ πλέον ἐξάπτεται; οὐκ οἶδας, ὅτι τὸ κατεργάζεσθαι τὸ κακὸν, δυσεξάλειπτον καθίσταται, ὥσπερ ἐν πίνακι χαρακτῆρες οἱ μὲν κουφοτέρως ἐναποκείμενοι εὐχερῶς καταλεαίνονται, οἱ δὲ διὰ βάθους δυσεξάλειπτοι εὑρίσκονται; Ὅρα οὖν μὴ περιφρονήσῃς τοῦ μέλλοντός σε κρίνειν· ὅρα οὖν μὴ","english":"I have reminded your love of all these things, so that you may know all the commandments, and every ruler and authority and every age may learn the counsel and will of God, and his fearful coming from heaven, and the fearful punishments, and that painful separation, and each one may hasten to set his own life right and prepare himself for defense, and not hand himself over to sloth and fail of the ineffable and eternal good things. See to it, then, you slothful man, that you do not persist in sloth, that you are not conquered by deceit and pleasure. Beware lest through the wealth of God's goodness and forbearance and long-suffering you despise him and treasure up for yourself wrath, as the Apostle says, in the day of wrath. Turn back, then; be sober; be watchful; for the past time is sufficient. Do not persist in your deceit and love of pleasure; do not sink deep into your injustice. Do you not see the angel following you and writing down your deeds? Do you not know that by your hardness and persistence the wound becomes greater, and is written down more heavily, and wrath is kindled more? Do you not know that the working of evil becomes hard to erase, just as on a tablet some characters laid down lightly are easily smoothed away, but those cut deep are found hard to erase? See to it, then, that you do not despise the one who is about to judge you; see to it, then, that you do not","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":49,"ref":"p49","source":"ἐπιμένων, μείζω τῆς ἀφέσεως κατασκευάσῃς σοι τὴν ἀνομίαν. Διὰ τοῦτο περὶ πάντα προησφαλίσατο πᾶσι τὸ παράκλητον καὶ ἀγαθὸν Πνεῦμα, καὶ πάντα ὑπέμνησε, καὶ πῶς ὁ πόρνος ἐκ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ γάμου μετ' αἰσχύνης ἐκβάλλεται, πῶς δὲ καὶ αἱ πέντε μωραὶ παρθένοι διὰ ἀπήνειαν ἔξω ἀπεκλείσθησαν τῆς οὐρανίου χαρᾶς, πῶς ὁ πλούσιος ἐκεῖνος διὰ τρυφὴν καὶ τὴν ἀνήλεον αὐτοῦ γνώμην ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ἐκείνῳ τῆς βασάνου ἔλαχεν. Ὁμοίως καὶ ὁ ἕτερος πλούσιος, ὁ τὰς ἀποθήκας ἐκτείνων καὶ συνάγων πολλὰ καὶ κερδαίνων οὐδὲν, ἄφρων δικαίως ἤκουσεν.\n\nΟὐκ ἀγνοεῖτε δὲ τί καὶ οἱ ἐξ εὐωνύμων διὰ ἀμετάδοτον ἤκουσαν. Τὸν δὲ κλέπτην ὁ Κύριος φονέα ἐκάλεσε λέγων, Ὁ κλέπτης οὐκ ἔρχεται, εἰ μὴ ἵνα κλέψῃ καὶ θύσῃ καὶ ἀπολέσῃ. Ταῦτα καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα διὰ στόματος τῶν ἁγίων τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα ἐλάλησε, κἀγὼ δὲ ὑπέμνησα· καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τούτοις ὁ Ἀπόστολος κράζει λέγων· Βλέπετε μὴ παραιτήσησθε τὸν λαλοῦντα. Καὶ ἀρκέσει τέως ὑμῖν τὰ εἰρημένα, καὶ μάλιστα τοῖς σπουδαιοτέροις, χάριτι καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ πάντα κατὰ τὸν προειρηκότα καιρὸν οἰκονομήσαντος εἰς τὴν ἡμῶν σωτηρίαν, καὶ προσκαλουμένου εἰς τὴν αἰώνιον αὐτοῦ βασι60.699 λείαν, εὐχαῖς δὲ τῶν μνημονευθέντων ἁγίων, ᾧ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος ἅμα τῷ Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι ὡς ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ, νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ, καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.","english":"If you persist, you will make your lawlessness greater than the forgiveness. For this reason, in all things he beforehand secured for all the comforting and good Spirit, and reminded them of all things: how the fornicator is cast out of the royal wedding with shame, and how the five foolish virgins, because of their harshness, were shut out from the heavenly joy, and how that rich man, because of his luxury and his merciless disposition, obtained his lot in that place of torment. Likewise also the other rich man, who extended his storehouses and gathered many things and gained nothing, was justly called foolish.\n\nYou are not ignorant of what those on the left also heard, because they did not share. And the Lord called the thief a murderer, saying, The thief does not come except to steal and to slaughter and to destroy. These things and the like the Holy Spirit spoke through the mouth of the saints, and I also have reminded you; and upon all these things the Apostle cries out, saying, See that you do not refuse the one who speaks. And for now the things said will suffice for you, and especially for the more earnest, by the grace and love for humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, who ordered all things according to the forementioned time for our salvation, and calls us into his eternal kingdom, and by the prayers of the saints who have been mentioned, to whom be the glory and the might together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, now and always, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]}]}