What I Am You Will Be | Memento Mori | Remembrance of Death | Mt Athos Monk Skull | Ascetic Ethos | Orthodox Spiral NotebookOur mind is so darkened by the fall that unless we force ourselves to remember death we can completely forget about it. When we forget about death, then we begin to live on earth as if were were immortal, and we sacrifice all our activity to the world without concerning ourselves in the least either about the fearful transition to eternity or about our fate in eternity. Then we boldly and peremptorily override the commandments of Christ; then we

Explanation of Philippians (buy the collected volume of St Theophylact's Explanations of the Epistles here)

He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man

to enemies

Priest: Let us attend

1:9)—that is you see something

From Strong's Dictionary of New Testament Greek:

these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say

Pantoleon began to pray to the Lord Jesus Christ to revive the dead child and to destroy the venomous reptile

that the presence of the Holy Spirit in man is the presence of Christ and the Kingdom of God

and requiring the following which is by works

from the impenetrable bosom of the earth the shoot of life hath been put forth

- 1 Corinthians 15:52-57