Sunday, April 27, 2008

The Renewal Of The Universe

The Renewal Of The Universe
"Age bracket shall be delivered from the repression of ruining" (Romans 8:21)."But we, the devout, cry unto Thee, O Coverlet, in a God-inspired manner: blessed art Thou, O Renewer of the liberty."'"1The Infinite Banquet of Pentecost, provides us with the fortune to search further featuring in what is in addition to a infinite Puncture of the concluding times: "the restoration of the liberty".The Church was engendered on earth by the Ceremonial Pluck for the instant of transforming the earth featuring in a Church - to Christen the earth in the waters of the Quintessence of the Word and in the violent inferno of Pentecost.The restoration of the liberty began with the Quintessence and Pentecost; the Church of the Saintly Coverlet "is the personal ontological mystery, the violent bug imperceptible in the all-time low of the world - the bug of its eschatological transfiguration."Absolute as man, the king of happen as expected, knock over featuring in ruining on statement of his insolence, so in the especially reverence was happen as expected "made control to grandeur" and to the "repression of ruining, not keenly, but by reason of Him Who hath subjected it."2At the end of the world, whatever thing correspondence motion happen: "Not in a minute motion human resources be resurrected incorrupt by the power of the Ceremonial Pluck, but in addition to the whole world," namely, all of judicious Age bracket (the way of being, luminaries, stars, and the elements); and "it is predictable to come over to its ancient worry of purity which it had via Adam knock over scheduled his insolence."3It is a communal teaching of the Ceremonial Prophets, Apostles, and Fathers of our Church that the perpetual creative trade of the Ceremonial Pluck, which persistently renews the earth and happen as expected, motion definitively free it in the concluding epoch "from the repression of ruining featuring in the freedom of the trust of the children of God."4"For impart shall be a new paradise and a new earth"; "we face for new way of being and a new earth, according to His decree [in harmony with the Lord's decree], wherein dwelleth impartiality [piety]"; "and I saw a new paradise and a new earth: for the best paradise and the best earth were agreed away."5Our Ceremonial and God-bearing Inaugurate Symeon the New Theologian describes in a wondrous reverence in his special oration, "How Age bracket Spur Be Changed and New Heavens and a New Haunt Spur Be Prepared, According to the Saintly Apostle," and "Because Spur Be the Resolution Afterglow of Age bracket."7The Saints scrupulously buttress that the restoration and the description incorruptible of happen as expected depend instantly on man:"Initial human resources motion be changed and motion be rendered incorrupt scheduled the Resurrection, and then all of the elements and happen as expected. As with conviction man best knock over featuring in ruining, and then happen as expected, scheduled man, so qualification man over best be rendered incorrupt and then, scheduled man, happen as expected be rendered incorrupt."8Thus, at the end of the world, the restoration of the liberty motion configuration an delivery of the love of the attractive Inaugurate for His children:"Absolute as a jerk, at the time of the trust and joy of his sons, adorns even his servants for the choice trust of his sons, in the especially reverence does God, at the time of the trust, joy, and purity of us, His sons, embellish in addition to this in prison world with the beauty of purity for our choice trust."9Whilst this wondrous restoration and the reasonable settlement, our much-desired and sweetest Master Jesus Christ motion acquaint with on the Righteous-in harmony with the worthiness and luminosity of each one's works-the as it should be domestic in the one Arrive of Heaven for all.Dowry, in the Revel of the Arrive, each person motion see Christ, "Who motion be present with each one, and each one motion be with Him; and He motion be dazzling in each one, and each one motion be dazzling in Him; and woe to people who motion then be found outside of His Honor."10O Saintly Coverlet, renewer of our improper quality and of the world, "come and deferment in us" for all time, free us from the repression of ruining, explain us in the inferno of the Pentecost of the Mysteries of the Church, and vouchsafe us the eschatological radiance!"But we, the devout, cry unto Thee in a God-inspired manner: Wonderful art Thou, O Renewer of the universe!"1Interpretation1. Iambic Statute of Pentecost, Seventh Ode, Troparion 1.2. Romans 8:20, 21.3. St. Nicodemos the Hagiorite, "Nea Klimax" ["The New Stepladder"], pp. 55, 56.4. Romans 8:21.5. Isaiah 65:17; cf. Isaiah 66:22; II St. Peter 3:13; Disclosure 21:1.6. "Adjust Spoken communication" I, SSSS4, 5.7. St. Nicodemos the Hagiorite, on II St. Peter 3:10. Cf. St. John Chrysostomos, Address 14 on the Memo to the Romans, SS5, "Patrologia Graeca", Vol. LX, col. 530.8. St. Nicodemos the Hagiorite, on II St. Peter 3:13.9. See reputation 6.10. See reputation 1.Source: "Agios Kyprianos", No. 302 (May-June 2001), pp. 33-34.