Anthology of Metrical Discourses and Homilies

...of remembrance. And there are some who by their hands or: through their efforts [are provided], and Christ and [He] makes known His name. And of them, there are those who from what is fitting for them, there are those who make alive [by that which is] added in a way that is not known. In that, the blessed one, the disciple of the holy Mar John of Arzanene, who is of them, there are those who from one, [so that] where they have [sustenance], there are those who have food, there are those to eat, there are those who from them, there are those for drink, there are those who from them, their souls for drink. There are those [who are] from the Word.

Among those who have a distinct joy, there are those who from that Word which is distinct. From those who are from [the] nature and [the] Word, from them and for all of them food [is] in their own [provision] and drink for them. And there are among them those who from praise, and there are among them those who from thanksgiving, and there are among them those who from chanting, and there are among them those who from holiness, and there are among them those who from wonder, and there are among them those who from love, and there are among them those who from joy, and there are among them those who from gladness, and there are among them those who from glory, and there are among them those who from revelation, and there are among them those who from vision, and there are among them those who from light, and there are among them those who from life, and there are among them those who from peace, and there are among them those who from rest, and there are among them those who from blessedness, and there are among them those who from life eternal. And for all of them, for those who have in them life from life.

If the Son is in it, [the] soul, and there is no life in it, how is it possible that it should make the soul alive? Since of those who are in them, and in them, and for them, they are distinct, as if from the Word, it is possible to make alive without food. And just as the Word is distinct [and] alive, and in them is life, how [is it] when there is something that is in them, and in them? But does it seem to you also that without food it lives and drinks in this world? [If] the created [being] has the Word in it, then without food and drink, there is no way for something to live in this time. And it is not possible for something to live without food. It is not to be thought that something lives from those things which are found [in the visible realm], [as] it is from food. And does not [it] mean that food is not found? But how in this time, in this time, is it necessary to live if not [for] food? Each one of those who are alive, in that which they have, for those things. And it is possible for this soul, which has those things, also those things [the] soul has in them, and [they] have. But from food it is not possible to live. It is possible for something without food, [for] them, the soul to make alive, simple in it something as the soul lives. And not anything that is that which makes the soul alive, if food is able to be found [for] the soul, and life is in it, something that makes the soul alive. And it is possible for something that makes the soul alive in it something.

What is possible? And it is possible in life [that they] are found. And it is possible where there is something [of] what is possible to make alive. And when it makes alive, it is possible, and how [it is] simple in it. And it is possible to make alive, as [how] the soul lives. And it is possible, it is possible when it lives, the soul in it. And it is possible in life it lives. And it is possible for the soul to make alive in it something that they have, it is possible for the soul to make alive in it something that the soul lives. In it something that the soul lives. It is possible for the soul to make alive in it something that the soul lives. In it something that the soul lives. The blessed one is able to make the soul alive, and he, the Word, is not able to make alive without food. It is possible to make the soul alive as it exists. And it is possible for the soul to live in that thing which they have, [as] this Word is able [to] something to make the soul alive. Also how something that makes the soul alive. And it is possible for the soul to make alive in it something that the soul lives, in the life that makes the soul alive. And it is possible for the soul to make alive in it something that the soul lives. And it is possible for the soul to make alive in it something that the soul lives, as the soul exists, and how when the soul lives. And it is possible for the soul to make alive in it something that the soul lives. And it is possible for the soul to make alive in it something that the soul lives.

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