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On the Healing of the Paralytic in Capernaum “Then He entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into His own city. And, behold, they brought to Him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good…
On the Healing of the Paralytic in Capernaum, as Narrated by the Evangelist Matthew; It Also Speaks of Sorrow for God’s Sake From Matthew. Reading 29. We learn from many things to compare the words of the Gospel to honeycombs. The throat of the spiritual Bridegroom of souls, adorned with beauty beyond the sons of…
What does the common phrase “The Lord visited someone” mean? How should we understand such situations, draw the right conclusions, and avoid the necessity for such occurrences? The phrase “The Lord visited” or “the visitation of the Lord” is used in Holy Scripture to refer both to blessings and to punishments. For instance, regarding Hannah,…
The Holy Scripture of Christians is the Bible, a book recognized as divinely inspired by virtually all who call themselves Christians. The word “Bible” translates from Greek as “books,” indicating that it is a collection of various books. The specific composition of these books is called the canon of Holy Scripture. The canon was finalized…
The Holy One (God), commanding Moses that the Israelites should keep the Pascha on the fourteenth day of the first month, said: “Speak ye unto all the congregation of the children of Israel…, that they shall take to them every man a lamb… without blemish… a male of the first year… from among the lambs…
In the fourth chapter of the Gospel according to John, we are given an example of how, from living water—the Holy Ghost, the incorruptible seed—the words of the Lord, a new spiritual man is born. The Lord converses with the Samaritan woman at the well. “Give Me to drink,” He says to the woman. “How…
The study of the canon of the books of Holy Scripture in Rus’ is the subject of close attention in contemporary research. The term canon (from the Greek κανών) means a rule, standard, or norm. The biblical canon is the collection of 66 books of the Bible (39 books of the Old Testament and 27…
The most frequently read books of the Bible in the Church are the Psalter and the Gospel. It can be said that various excerpts from the Psalter constitute the lion’s share of all Orthodox services. Moreover, according to the Ustav, if a Christian cannot attend church services for some reason, they can pray in place…