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us during the time of prayer, for the holy creation is my goal. They say this to one another, the soul and the body, and by these words they are comforted.
A Saint Gregory says: How do you take the soul of the righteous one?
The angel says: I appear to him calmly, like one who calls to a wedding feast, gentle and calm and good, into rest and into the calling of eternal goods. When the soul of the righteous one sees me, he rejoices, and the body exults, because from the times of this world and from its plunder, I transfer him into eternal rest. And from the plunder, I rank him among the fiery beings original: "հրեղէնսն", leading him from the transient to the everlasting. E When I take the soul of the righteous one, it becomes bright like the sun with light, and filled with fragrance. And when I take the soul, I bow down to it as to a friend.
A Saint Gregory says: What does the soul say of the body?
The angel says: The soul and the body praise one another. And the soul says to the body: "Blessed are you, my body, for while I was not yet justified, in the humility of the poor, in prayers, in fasts, in ascetic labors, and in all good works." The body says to the soul: "Blessed are you also, for you were my yoke-fellow and dwelling place. I thought of