Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Introduction: Shenoute's life, times, and Discourses
- Part I Heretics and Other Enemies of the Church
- Part II Shenoute as Pastor and Preacher
- 4 I see your eagerness
- 5 Some kinds of people sift dirt and Whoever seeks God will find
- 6 The idolatrous pagans, or, And we will also reveal something else
- 7 And let us also reprove
- 8 I answered
- 9 And after a few days
- 10 See how clearly revealed is the foolishness of pitiless people
- 11 Truly when I think
- 12 A priest will never cease
- 13 When the word says
- Part III The Christian's Struggle with Satan
- Part IV The Conflict with Gesios
- Bibliography
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- Index of biblical passages
13 - When the word says
from Part II - Shenoute as Pastor and Preacher
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Introduction: Shenoute's life, times, and Discourses
- Part I Heretics and Other Enemies of the Church
- Part II Shenoute as Pastor and Preacher
- 4 I see your eagerness
- 5 Some kinds of people sift dirt and Whoever seeks God will find
- 6 The idolatrous pagans, or, And we will also reveal something else
- 7 And let us also reprove
- 8 I answered
- 9 And after a few days
- 10 See how clearly revealed is the foolishness of pitiless people
- 11 Truly when I think
- 12 A priest will never cease
- 13 When the word says
- Part III The Christian's Struggle with Satan
- Part IV The Conflict with Gesios
- Bibliography
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- Index of biblical passages
Summary
Providential suffering of the Lord
When the Word says to those who belong to this saving prophecy, “We saw the Lord and he had no form nor beauty, but his form was more despicable and gloomier than all men,” let [us] know the [… Approximately two fragmentary sentences …] all who [are] in the whole world [have no] value before the Father and the Son.
And if he had not been caught, then we would not have escaped even death. We [would] not be alive, instead being dead in our transgression. And if he had not been crucified then we would not escape from wrath in the day of wrath. And if he had not been pierced, then we would not escape being pierced in the day of calamity and affliction that will come upon the whole earth on the day that he [will come] to judge the living and the dead. [If] he had not been judged by a governor, then we would not be saved from the true judgment and [… Approximately one fragmentary sentence …] If he had not grieved, then we would not escape all grief. If he had not wept, there would be no consolation for the whole human race. If he had not been troubled in spirit, and if he had not been mocked, then we would be filled with our mockery and our shame on the day of our visitation. If he had not endured the cross, and if he had not suffered them to put a crown of thorns on his head, then no one would receive the eternal crown. If he had not [… Approximately two fragmentary sentences …] he himself being mocked. And if they had not sat at the tribunal at the place called “Stone Pavement,” or “Gabbatha,” the place where a great crowd […] horse and […] colt gathered in it, [then] no one would sit [on] the thrones in [the] kingdom. [If] he had not been [… Approximately one fragmentary sentence …] angels in the kingdom of heaven. If he had not been sad and had not cried out, then this glory and this grace would not have come about for all the faithful so that [they] might hear, “Enter the joy of your master.”
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- Selected Discourses of Shenoute the GreatCommunity, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt, pp. 146 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015