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Saint John 15:26: Eternal Memory or Anathema.
"TO those who confess that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone, with no intermediary, just as the Son is begotten from the Father alone, with no intermediary, according to the testimony of God the Word Himself to His apostles at the season of His Passion for the salvation of the world when He said: "But when the Comforter is come, Whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of me," [John 15:26 KJV] and to those who accept unaltered this divine testament of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, ETERNAL MEMORY." [page 130.].
"SO likewise do they who despise and disdain piety receive curses; wherefore, all we in unison, since we constitute the plenitude of piety, lay upon them the curse which they have put upon themselves." (1)
"To those who do not deign to consent to the unaltered and unadulterated holy Symbol confessed by the Orthodox, that one, I mean, which was evangelically formulated by the First and Second Holy Councils and confirmed by the rest, but who rather amend it and distort it to support their own belief, thereby not only corrupting the conciliar traditions of the holy fathers and of the holy and God-instructed apostles, but also the definitions of our true God and Savior, Jesus Christ, ANATHEMA." [page 133.].
"THE NICENE CREED"
"I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, Begotten of the Father before all ages, Light of Light, true God of true God; begotten, not made; being of one essence with the Father; by Whom all things were made; Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from the Heavens, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary, and became man, and was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was buried; and arose again on the third day according to the Scriptures, and ascended into the Heavens, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father; and shall come again, with glory to judge both the living and the dead; Whose Kingdom shall have no end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of life; Who proceedeth from the Father; Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; Who spake by the prophets. In One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come. AMEN." [page 127.].
ON THE MYSTAGOGY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. BY SAINT PHOTIOS PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE. TRANSLATION BY HOLY TRANSFIGURATION MONASTERY. BOSTON, MA: STUDION PUBLISHERS, 1983.
God bless, save, and keep us all in His mercy and everlasting love and grace, and sanctify us and make us Holy by His Holy Spirit Who proceedeth from the Father. Amen.
In Erie PA USA August 31, 2011 AD Scott R. Harrington
Notes.
1. An extract from the Synodicon of Orthodoxy.
"TO those who confess that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone, with no intermediary, just as the Son is begotten from the Father alone, with no intermediary, according to the testimony of God the Word Himself to His apostles at the season of His Passion for the salvation of the world when He said: "But when the Comforter is come, Whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of me," [John 15:26 KJV] and to those who accept unaltered this divine testament of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, ETERNAL MEMORY." [page 130.].
"SO likewise do they who despise and disdain piety receive curses; wherefore, all we in unison, since we constitute the plenitude of piety, lay upon them the curse which they have put upon themselves." (1)
"To those who do not deign to consent to the unaltered and unadulterated holy Symbol confessed by the Orthodox, that one, I mean, which was evangelically formulated by the First and Second Holy Councils and confirmed by the rest, but who rather amend it and distort it to support their own belief, thereby not only corrupting the conciliar traditions of the holy fathers and of the holy and God-instructed apostles, but also the definitions of our true God and Savior, Jesus Christ, ANATHEMA." [page 133.].
"THE NICENE CREED"
"I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, Begotten of the Father before all ages, Light of Light, true God of true God; begotten, not made; being of one essence with the Father; by Whom all things were made; Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from the Heavens, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and of the Virgin Mary, and became man, and was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered and was buried; and arose again on the third day according to the Scriptures, and ascended into the Heavens, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father; and shall come again, with glory to judge both the living and the dead; Whose Kingdom shall have no end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of life; Who proceedeth from the Father; Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; Who spake by the prophets. In One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come. AMEN." [page 127.].
ON THE MYSTAGOGY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. BY SAINT PHOTIOS PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE. TRANSLATION BY HOLY TRANSFIGURATION MONASTERY. BOSTON, MA: STUDION PUBLISHERS, 1983.
God bless, save, and keep us all in His mercy and everlasting love and grace, and sanctify us and make us Holy by His Holy Spirit Who proceedeth from the Father. Amen.
In Erie PA USA August 31, 2011 AD Scott R. Harrington
Notes.
1. An extract from the Synodicon of Orthodoxy.