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is a book in which every word is
interpreted, explained,
preached to all ends of the earth,
applied to all kinds of
circumstances of life and the occurrence of the
world
from which not a single expression can be repeated;
which would not be known by everyone
by heart; which would not already be a
proverb of nations;
it no longer concludes for us nothing
unknown,
but this book is called the gospel and
Such is its eternally new charm that if
we,
satiated with the world or dejected by despondency,
accidentally open it, we will
no longer be able to resist its
sweet attraction
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
So what is the eternally new charm and
sweet attraction of the
Great Book of the Bible so
that to answer this question it is necessary
to answer the question of what the Bible is about, it
is not at all a
chaotic collection of legends, stories,
teachings,
but I express myself somewhat paradoxically,
this book about Christ
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the basis of this program was the
Bible lecture given by Father Alexander
Minim at the Moscow Historical and Archival
Institute shortly before his tragic
death
And despite some imperfections in
the shooting, we deliberately decided to make do with
minimal visual means in this program,
leaving you alone with Father Alexander
Minin and the Bible, this book is about Christ
about how humanity approached him
as it did and perceived how He appeared in the world
and how his word went on his journey through the
world
What is Christ
this word means king
Literally translated from Greek, the
anointed one his earthly name Jesus is the name
that was given to many people at that time
2000 years ago Christ is his
sacred title
and this title appears many
centuries before Christmas Christ
appears as something as a symbol of the
coming renewal of humanity and even
nature and the entire universe,
we do not own being, the Bible teaches us
Only God is being,
his name is the
existing word, we don’t even know exactly how
it was pronounced in ancient times,
apparently Yahweh was pronounced
distorted in the 16th century. read Jehovah
Why I will then explain to you
what this word means, the mysterious
word
literally can be translated as I am
who I am
because when the ancient prophet Moses asked
God Who are you, he said I am who
I am and not you You received being from me
like just as sunlight
is the only light in our system,
and the light coming from the Moon there and other
planets is reflected light,
just like that, and the Absolute
gives us its light
being, we belong in the secondary
sense to
the Old and New Testaments,
they are divided into several collections,
the first collection of the Old Testament called
children of the book the pentateuch contains
the books of being
the beginning of the Testament
Exodus
The covenant as salvation from slavery
Leviticus the book about the sanctification of man
numbers
The temptation of
man in the face of God
and Deuteronomy the book about the Old Testament
church its self-awareness
on its way in the world
then there are books that are called in
our tradition in Greek Russian
tradition
historical books
in the more ancient tradition
these historical books were called the
early prophets ancient prophets
They include the book of Joshua
entering the promised land Book of
Judges Temptation by paganism the books of Samuel
and kings
but in the Russian translation the book of Samuel
is also called the books of kingdoms
Why did the ancient tradition call them
prophetic books, a prophet is one who
teaches about the meaning of the historical process, he
is a story about the deep essence of the
historical process and the mystery and purpose of the
historical process, for in the Bible,
for the first time in the history of human thought, we
find the very concept of the purpose of the
historical process,
for prophecy was never
pronounced by the will of man, but
God’s holy people spoke it, being
moved by the Holy Spirit, the
second epistle of Peter, chapter 1 verse 21
in the Bible, for the first time in the history of human
thought, we find the very concept of the purpose of the
historical process,
which will replace the end of previous
history and the
dawn of a transformed humanity,
therefore the
historical narrative of the so-
called historical books is not a
chronicle You should not confuse this with
chronicles. Any Christian chronicler of
antiquity, he tries mainly only to
convey facts; the
biblical prophet selected facts as
illustrations for a certain internal
thought, and at first it seems to us that he is
talking about some heroes,
kings, etc. Why if we carefully
read then we will see that all this carries a
huge semantic load,
then there are prophetic books.
What is a prophet? A
prophet
sometimes we use this word as a
soothsayer, a predictor like a
futurologist
at the highest level, a scientific futurologist at
the lowest level, this is a fortuneteller,
meanwhile, in the Bible, the prophet's
foresight of the future was only part of a
unique the gift of these people was
not the only prophet, it was a phenomenal phenomenon
for several centuries, one
brilliant author after another appears,
sometimes they are connected with themselves, sometimes not, but
this movement is
developing rapidly from the 8th to the 5th century.
If through nature a person learned
the power of the creator, then through the prophet he
reveals his moral will
towards us
and the prophets destroyed the pagan
idea of ​​religion that you can
appease the higher principle with some gifts and
sacrifices.
God, through the mouth of the prophets, says why do you
bring me Gifts when your hands are full of
blood, you have been told, man, what is
good
and what pleases God to do affairs
Mercy of justice
It turns out that the gift is the
highest, it must be said that when the
Old Testament Bible was formed, it
included only part of the Sacred
literature that existed then, the
scripture does not include prophetic
vision and not laws and not historiosophy, but
this is a view of the world from the point of view of an
ordinary person
as one English interpreter said,
this is the experience of the midlan,
one book of Job about the suffering of the innocent, a
book of iklyaziast about the
futility of human efforts on Earth, a
book of psalms, this is, as it were, a synthesis of the entire
Bible, suffering, experiences, joy,
Hope, a book of songs, songs, the greatness of love is
strong as death, love, a
book of parables, these are aphorisms about
everyday life
All scripture is inspired by God and useful for
teaching for reproof for correction
for training in righteousness
May the man of God be complete
in every good work
Second Epistle to Timothy chapter 3 verses
16-17
Gospel friends on this genre is absolutely
new and original created by the
evangelists
what is its originality
the fact that they do not contain only the sayings of
Jesus Christ
and are not his biography in the ancient
or modern sense of the word,
but this is a
unique synthesis of
the sermon about Christ, his teaching, his life
and a picture of his personality.
Why Gospel 4
because
the opportunity to see his unique
personality
from four points of view
allows us to see him as if
stereoscopically
deeper. Because if the Evangelist John
sees him with
special eyes, as the word of the creator
speaking to the world, then for the Evangelist Mark
he is, first of all, the conqueror of the dark forces in
Luke, he is the Friend of the suffering in Matthew, he is the
promised king whom the ancient
Jews have been waiting for for many generations
having chosen the four Gospels,
the church
remembered the ancient symbol, you will even
remember it, the four ends in art and in
ancient literature means the Universe, the
symbol is transparent, this is the Wind Rose, the 4
ends of the world, and therefore or not Elion
in the second century wrote as we have
northeast-west south so there are four
Gospels
as the House stands on four corners and so on
4 Gospels are the axis of the entire Bible
they are difficult to understand without the Old Testament,
but the Old Testament, as St.
Augustine said, is revealed in the new because the
new is hidden in it, there is a
deep feedback between them if a person were
completely he didn’t know the Old Testament, from the very
first word of the Gospel he didn’t understand
half of the terms that are present there,
and the second part of the New Testament in tradition
is called the Apostle. This is exactly the
same book that, as you know, was
published by Ivan Fedorov;
it contains, firstly, the book of the Acts of
the Apostles. This is history the first 30 years of
the spread of Christianity,
they were written by Luke, the same one who was the author of the
third Gospel, traveled around
the Mediterranean with the Apostle
Paul, many pages of this
wonderful book that are called
Christian odyssey, written down from
memory based on personal impressions,
and after the acts come the messages of the
apostles,
founding communities throughout the
Mediterranean in During the first 30 years of
our era, the apostles, especially the
Supreme Apostle Paul
and the Apostle Peter, also called the
Supreme Apostle, generally followed
her development and sent her letters all the time.
The mail was then only state mail,
so letters were transmitted only with
acasia. Despite all the difficulties of
these paths,
the apostles systematically they wrote with their own
pens, and these letters or messages
make up a
significant part of the book The Apostle,
these are also personal letters. In a sense,
as studies of the
Oxelin papyri have shown, they are built on the
same principle as private letters, and at the
same time, these are literary epistles,
like a message from such a middle genre
Let not I the book of the law depart from your mouth
But study in it day and night in order to
exactly do everything that is written in it
then you will be successful in your ways and
you will act wisely
and finally the final book of the Bible
Apocalypse and ordinary includes in the Apostle a
book about the destinies of the world and man. A
great prophetic book, perhaps to
some. It seems incomprehensible and
scary. But in fact it is very
understandable. Anyone who knows the system of symbols
encoded in the Old Testament can
read the Apocalypse without stumbling
because its author
thought, breathed, was permeated with these images.
The Apocalypse speaks of terrible things About
things that seemed fantastic just 100 years ago,
Chernyshevsky's hero says that
the Apocalypse is the work of a madman.
Of course, when he said that the
third ocean would be poisoned and the
air of all the air there would be rubbed, only crazy people
could come up with this. However, a hundred years have passed
and we see that it is easy
Unfortunately, it becomes a reality
But despite the fact that this book is terrible,
it is about our time and all the terrible
times of the past, it is a book of Victory and
hope because the Bible ends
in joyful tones. It says that the
Lamb wins. The Lamb is Christ
and the Lamb is a defenseless creature,
but the one who wins
here is the Paradox of the Bible:
He is weak and defenseless, he is killed, he is slaughtered, the
creation of the world, and on ancient
manuscripts, on ancient icons, on
engravings, you will find everywhere this image of the
mysterious with many horns
in a series of engravings by Durer
and in the paintings of the Assumption Cathedral of Vladimir.
The Lamb that was slain
and now he appears and the winner
and in the end
this Lamb speaks addressing people
I stand at the door and knock
and the one who opens for me I will come to him and
be with him in the evening
This is an extremely important moment this
may be the culmination of the Apocalypse
because in the end a person lives
among vanity lives in pursuit of
often illusory goals,
he has no time to stop and
think about the main thing about the soul about the eternal And
then eternity itself knocks on him, he
needs to open his heart and then he
says I will come to them and then immediately
all the parameters of life change, she
becomes
filled with eternal meaning, therefore it is no
coincidence
that artists,
musicians and architects,
historians and philosophers
returned to it at every turn of
history
when the Barbarians destroyed Ancient Rome.
Blessed Augustine wrote the famous
book
God's Fence in which he created new
philosophies of history based on the Bible
and this stands above
our civilization
and attempts to exterminate it, which were
made repeatedly, turned out to be
attempts to undermine the most
life-giving roots of civilization;
this applies
not only to
society and only to learned artists and
other creative children. This also applies to the
Christian Church itself, when it forgot about the
Bible about its essence,
when it became something for it.
alive And the relic and the dead, the
next crisis of Christianity in history was coming,
one of the remarkable Russian
Christian figures, Martsinkovsky,
spoke during the revolution, he
talked with one sailor, he said, have you
ever read the Gospel
and what should you read? We kissed the lid
when it was in the church And what’s inside?
we don’t know,
that is,
decorated and shackled. She was lying on an
analogue in the temple. People approached it and
put it on it like a shrine, but
many didn’t look inside,
and every time this Return
becomes a source of a
new
impulse for life.
I had a friend who painted
avant-garde paintings depicting
garbage dumps.
Well, that’s not worse than everything else and it must be
said that this person This woman is an
artist quite interesting created
canvases the
artist’s gaze when it is directed at
what we pass by can find
beauty where we don’t see it and also a
ray of sunshine play in the same trash heap,
snatching lights among the broken ones
glass can turn their
sparkling into some kind of beautiful picture
and so, in exactly the same way, coming into our
insignificant, fleeting age full of
stupidity, dullness And vanity, when this
eternity illuminates everything, it
lifts us up to itself and we change,
probably
as a child, your parents took you to the play
Mkhatellin The Blue Bird there the sorceress,
touching the walls of the children’s wretched hut,
suddenly covers everything with precious stones, everything
sparkles, I’m not surprised where it comes from
and she says that it was all just you did
n’t notice it, that’s
how the Bible is, she
touches the most diverse aspects of
human life in Tragedy, dramas, for the
love of history
and eternity lights up everywhere
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