Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 4

The Discourse of the Fourteenth, the Seventh.

That a person should not presume: and on a novelty over a novelty he should not grow: and the first one that is known he should not despise: and to that which is not and that which is moving he should not be associated: and the intellectual and the works upon the law he should debate: and the pure ones he should debate from all the life of the soul. But if a person boasts and works upon these laws: or snatches: or destroys: or crucifies to him judgment: or snatches to the needy and to the pure or to the poor: or snatches deceit. But everything in righteousness he should guard: that which is commanded to us and we received joyfully: and in the holy we are foolish to them. We know, however, that God and his Christ and his Spirit are living and holy: and the spirit of that which the king rules: that from him who boasts and works upon these: he shall be living in his word, my Lord. Even we shall be for him worthy: and we shall repay him from our eyes. And he shall not corrupt the hidden in the church: and he shall not give death to them. And whoever says: because the righteousness of the father I do not admire: this that he says love let us hear: that it may be true to him who rejoices to him to ascend the half: and it shall be to him for a loop, excluded from that which ascends the whole: and it shall be to him for a curse.

But all of us, my Lord, the upright and the upright are glorious: that in those which are commanded we may stand and be confirmed. We, however, are trusting in our Lord: that we are doing the fullness: and your commandments we are guarding: and your laws we are fulfilling: and from Christ we are requesting petitions. But all of us, my Lord, that not from his side we may depart: and not like a master we may be living. But while we are young even if in righteousness: these we shall conquer: and life.