1. On humility, meekness, mercy, and love
1. An Orthodox Christian must practice humility, meekness, mercy, and love.
2. In every place an Orthodox Christian must practice humility, meekness, mercy, and love.
3. The sign of an Orthodox Christian is to practice humility, meekness, mercy, and love.
4. Every Orthodox Christian must bear the fruit of humility, meekness, mercy, and love.
5. The life of humility, meekness, mercy, and love, is a life of joy.
6. The life of humility, meekness, mercy, and love, is a life of blessedness.
7. Blessed are the humble. Blessed are the meek. Blessed are the merciful. Blessed are the loving.
2. On the cardinal virtues of the Old and New Testaments
1. The four cardinal virtues of the Old Testament are: prudence, self-restraint, justice, and Godly courage.
2. An Orthodox Christian must practice these four cardinal virtues of the Old Testament.
3. In every place an Orthodox Christian must practice the four cardinal virtues of the Old Testament.
4. The four cardinal virtues of the New Testament are: love, humility, patience, and self-control.
5. An Orthodox Christian must practice these four cardinal virtues of the New Testament.
6. In every place an Orthodox Christian must practice the four cardinal virtues of the New Testament.
7. Practicing the four cardinal virtues of the Old Testament is blessedness. Practicing the four cardinal virtues of the New Testament is blessedness.
8. Blessed are the prudent. Blessed are the self-restrained. Blessed are the just. Blessed are the Godly courageous.
9. Blessed are the loving. Blessed are the humble. Blessed are the patient. Blessed are the self-controlled.
3. On psychological seizure
1. The passions are the psychological illnesses of the soul.
2. When the passions appear they effect a psychological seizure.
3. When each passion acts the soul experiences a psychological seizure.
4. Every illness of the soul constitutes a psychological seizure.
5. The sudden movement of the passions causes a psychological seizure.
4. On the Ten Commandments
Combining the Old and New Testaments the Ten Commandments are as follows:
1. I am the Lord your God, revealed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You shall have no other Gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself an idol or a likeness of anything in heaven above or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them, for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing sins of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands who love Me and keep My commandments.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain nor take an oath. The Lord will not purify him who takes His name in vain.
4. Remember the Lord’s Day and keep it holy.
5. Honor and obey your father and your mother, so that it may be well with you.
6. You shall not kill or be wrathful without a cause.
7. You shall not commit adultery or fornication or look with desire.
8. You shall not steal or destroy.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not desire the wife of your neighbor, you shall not desire the house of your neighbor, nor his field, nor his male slave, nor his female slave, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor any of his cattle, nor anything that belongs to your neighbour.
5. Blessings and woes and the cardinal virtues
1. Blessed are the prudent. Blessed are the self-restrained. Blessed are the just. Blessed are the Godly-courageous.
2. But woe to the imprudent. Woe to the non-self-restrained. Woe to the unjust. Woe to the non-Godly-courageous.
3. Blessed are the loving. Blessed are the humble. Blessed are the patient. Blessed are the self-controlled.
4. But woe to the hating. Woe to the proud. Woe to the impatient. Woe to the non-self-controlled.
6. On humility and ranking
1. Humility teaches us to rank ourselves below every other person.
2. Humility teaches us to value ourselves as lowest in rank.
3. When we rank ourselves as lowest we experience true joy.
4. When we rank ourselves as lowest we neither become angry nor do we anger our neighbor.
5. An Orthodox Christian must rank himself as the lowest of all beings.
6. From ranking ourselves lowest arises peace.
7. From ranking ourselves lowest arises blessedness.
8. From ranking ourselves lowest arises salvation.
7. On the calling of our Creator
1. Our Creator calls us to the life of Orthodox Christianity.
2. Our Creator calls us to the life in Christ.
3. Our Creator calls us to repentance.
4. Our Creator calls us to the practice of the commandments.
5. Our Creator calls us to the life of virtue.
6. Our Creator calls us to the Kingdom of Heaven.
7. Our Creator calls us to salvation in Christ.
8. Our Creator calls us from the life of darkness to the life of true light.
8. On slavery to sin
1. The Lord Jesus came to free us from slavery to sin.
2. Only the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, can deliver us from slavery to sin. (See John 8:34-36).
3. Every person who commits sin is a slave of sin. (See John 8:34).
4. Through the sacraments of the Orthodox Christian Church we are delivered from slavery to sin.
5. We must seek our deliverance from slavery to sin.
6. Through the life of Orthodox Christianity we are delivered from slavery to sin.
9. The good
1. Accept good thoughts.
2. Accept good ideas.
3. Accept good feelings.
4. Accept good words.
5. Accept good works.
6. Avoid cunning thoughts.
7. Avoid cunning ideas.
8. Avoid cunning feelings.
9. Avoid cunning words.
10. Avoid cunning works.
10. On love
1. Love suffers long.
2. Is kind.
3. Is not jealous.
4. Does not parade itself.
5. Is not puffed up.
6. Is not rude.
7. Does not seek its own.
8. Is not provoked.
9. Thinks no evil.
10. Does not rejoice in injustice.
11. Rejoices in the truth.
12. Bears all things.
13. Believes all things.
14. Hopes all things.
15. Endures all things.
16. Love never fails.
