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"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" In the beginning Patristic Commentaries St. Augustine "But even if we believe that God made heaven and earth at the beginning of time, we should certainly realize that there was no time before th...

ⲧⲉⲛⲟⲩⲱϣⲧ ⲙⲡⲉⲕⲥⲱⲙⲁ ⲉⲑⲟⲩⲁⲃ We worship Your holy Body... ⲛⲉⲙ ⲡⲉⲕⲥⲛⲟϥ ⲉⲧⲧⲁⲓⲏⲟⲩⲧ And Your precious Blood... In the 1902 Euchologion it says: "The congregation says this response according to most of the new books, but in the old books, this response does not exi...

Numbers 18 Duties of the Priests and Levites Offerings for Support of the Priests Tithes for Support of the Levites Tithe of the Levites  

Numbers 16 Rebellion Against Moses and Aaron Korah, Dathan, Abiram and 250  Complaint against priesthood Desire for priesthood They looked at priesthood as a means of authority and pride, not as a means for paternity and service Service is a calling - ...

Numbers 15 Laws of Grain and Drink Offerings Laws Concerning Unintentional Sin Law Concerning Presumptuous Sin Violating the Sabbath Tassels on Garments

Numbers 13-14 Spies Sent into Canaan Israel Refuses to Enter Canaan Moses Intercedes for the People The Sentence of Wandering and Death Futile Invasion Attempt Fruits of Disbelief in God: Depression and melancholy (v. 1) Rebellion against godly leade...

Numbers 11 The People Complain Despite their complaints, God supported them... God did not decide to stop them from entering the Promised Land until later. Even the punishment was that the Lord sent fire, but it just consumed the outskirts of the camp Mose...

Anaphora Means Offer Up ( ana = up; phora = offer) Includes the whole liturgy starting with the Lord be with you all Starts with Liturgical Dialog The Lord It is meet and right Originally, there were no signings during the Anaphora In the beginning of...

Pray for perfect peace, love and the holy apostolic greetings Perfect Peace = divine peace - "the peace of God which surpasses all understanding" - the deacon should raise the cross because it is through this cross that we have peace and are reconciled. Hold ...

Numbers 5 Introduction Consecration and purification came at three levels: The camp as a whole (1-4) The personal level (5-10) The family level (11-29) Ceremonially Unclean Persons Isolated (1-4) God's concern is for the totality of the group Why do...

Patristic Writings St. John Chrysostom Fathers of the Church Series #74 - Homilies on Genesis 1-17 Fathers of the Church Series #82 - Homilies on Genesis 18-45 Fathers of the Church Series #87 - Homilies on Genesis 46-67 Holy Cross Orthodox Press - Eigh...

Numbers 1-2: The First Census Why count the people? [Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty 1] To confirm God's promise to Abraham that his descendants will be multiplied To assert the concern of God to everyone of His people that He is the Shepherd and He knows His sh...

Overview Travel Log of the Israelites from Sinai to Canaan This trip should take two weeks by foot... it takes forty years It took 40 days to get Israel out of Egypt It took 40 years to get Egypt out of Israel So we covered about one year and 2 mont...

Patristic Resources Ancient Christian Texts Origen: Homilies on Numbers Classics of Western Spirituality Gregory of Nyssa: Life of Moses Literary Sources Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty Studies in the Holy Bible: The Book of Numbers   Audio/V...

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Patristic Resources Andrew of CaesareaFathers of the Church Series #123 - "Commentary on the Apocalypse" Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture New Testament Volume 12 - Revelation Bulus al-Bushi & Ibn Katib Qasar Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic...

Introduction The Revelation is the Revelation of St John the Beloved, the Son of Zebedee, the Theologian, the Virgin He is called the Theologian because he focused on the Divinity of Christ in the Book of Revelation, the Epistles and the Gospel He lived in...

Creation Genesis 1:1 - In the Beginning Genesis 1:2 Genesis 1:3-5 - The First Day Genesis 1:6-8 - The Second Day Genesis 1:9-13 - The Third Day Genesis 1:14-19 - The Fourth Day Genesis 1:20-23 - The Fifth Day Genesis 1:24-25 - The Sixth Day Genesis ...

Name of the Book Genesis comes from the Greek word meaning "origin" or "beginning" The Hebrew name for the book is בראשית (Berasheet) which means "In the beginning" Pentateuch names come from the first word of the Book in Hebrew: Exodus – Shemot – These...