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The Septuagint records this verse in the following manner, Whoever blesses a friend early in the morning with a loud voice will seem not to be different from one who is cursing. I think that this makes the meaning clear. I suppose it can be paraph…
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I also would be interested in Remnkemi's sources since they seem very useful. For myself, I tend to start with books.google.com which gives (limited) access to the content of many academic works. It usually works out that the paragraph you want to …
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Our Lord was saying that we must not test God (by throwing ourselves off a roof) and not that Satan must not tempt him because he is God.
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The Apocrypha is generally not history but pious stories woven around the Gospel text. If you took every detail that is included in the wide range of Apocryphal works then the Gospels would be about 100 times bigger than they are. But the Apocrypha…
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OK. This is a tricky one, and I have spent a few hours researching it, and had to translate some ancient Coptic material out of French. I also wonder, since I don't know, if the Coptic text is shorter than the Arabic. If it is then at some point t…
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Christ is risen! Lol! If you find the questions boring here, and certainly they are sometimes the same questions, then ask some good ones yourself. I will try to answer this one in due course, but it has been a busy week. Father Peter
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In the incarnation our Lord took upon Himself the experience of change. In His Divine nature He is unchanging, but in His own humanity he was conceived, born, grew as an infant, etc etc, and suffered, died, was buried and rose from the dead. All of …
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ophadece, to say 'Christ is Risen' is a theological statement and is certainly NOT the passive form of English. The passive form would be 'Christ has been raised from the dead'. It makes no theological sense to say 'Christ has risen', though of c…
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Dear Zoxasi Alithos anesti! Thank you for your kind words and prayers. I pray that the issue that especially makes me a little sad is temporary, but I am not sure any of us can ever be entirely free from sadness in this life as we are concerned fo…
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It is always proper to have our joy mixed with sadness. My own celebrations were tinged with sadness.
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Then don't post in the way that you know will cause me to edit your posts. There are not different sides. That again is making it appear that there are different legitimate views. There is only one Orthodox Christian view about sexual desires and a…
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I think that paragraph was the most problematic since you were making different lifestyles entirely equivalent and a matter of opinion. I washed everyone's feet in my Church on Thursday, and being Father of Confession I know the sins of all, as my …
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Let's wait at least a week before we start having material about homosexuality posted please. Your reflection was fine as it was without these additions.
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Alithos anesti! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! (We had a wonderful Paschal liturgy, at the end of a moving Holy Week. May the blessing of this season be with all who post here).
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Let us always and without cease turn first of and last of all to our holy Father to learn how to understand the Scriptures and never rely on our own understanding. I have spent some time translating the commentary of St Cyril on this passage from in…
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ophadece, I don't have a problem with people disagreeing with each other. But they had better not disagree with me!!!! May the Lord bless our final days as we approach the Feast. We had a very beautiful time of prayer this morning in my own little…
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The Creed was determined at the council of Nicaea in 325 AD and was modified (to put it briefly) in the 380s. The council of Ephesus in 431 AD determined that the Creed must remain unchanged.
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I don't think anyone is arguing against the reading of the Pascha scriptures in Coptic where it has value. The issue Zoxasi has raised is that the scriptures are being read only in Coptic and Arabic so that no-one who speaks only French or Flemish …
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The issue is that the Creed is not to be changed under any circumstances. To change the Creed is to change the Faith. No local Church has the authority to change the Creed unilaterally. This is one of the main reasons for the division with the Roman…
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It should not be difficult to translate the Pascha Book into many European languages. The Old Testament readings, and the Gospels are all readily available in European language translation. Most of the other parts of the Pascha Hours are fixed and s…
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ophadece, I am not sure that you understand. The creed is not negotiable, nor subject to seasonal variation. It does not really matter what our own opinions are, including mine, but changing the Creed is a matter of schism. To change the creed is …
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Agreed. The creed is different entirely to all other aspects of the rite. It is not reducible or variable.
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I would not be happy as an Orthodox missing out any portion of the Holy Creed. It was written in its entirety for a reason, and at first was not used in the Liturgy at all but as the confession of faith of the one being baptised or the one returning…
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So what does it really say? I couldn't see my name.
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I think that imikhail provides a very balanced answer. What matters first is that we pray with understanding, but the appropriate preservation and participation in our own Christian culture is also important in a relative sense. I am trying to lea…
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Lol! What does the link say about me? Who has reported me?
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I think that you/we should pray from the Paschal hours and not the Agpeya during this week. I have just come home from praying all the evening hours and there is a special atmosphere about the prayers which have been composed as a coherent text for …
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The divine nature is not any THING. It cannot be seen, touched, harmed, contained or constrained. The divine nature is not mixed with the human nature, it is united with it. Where is your spirit? If I were to stab your leg with a knife I would not…
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I would say that to bow the head is a mark of respect while to prostrate is a mark of humility.
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We cannot make absolute statements about rites if they go back to one manuscript. That just isn't enough evidence. We follow the rites that our bishops authorise, that is Orthodoxy. We study ancient manuscripts but they do not determine the life of…