pachorn~an ko~nonla - Alin Suciu

Pachomian Koinonia 111 The Letters of Saint Pachomius 57
race* because he hated sin,+ He disclosed t . Before he ate, everything was brought to en 3:6.
that God would vist them,: and he like that he would giye them thezi names and cn 2:20.
vealed to them the care for discipline* and t
'nto species. After he had eaten,
mo?i;al of his wisd0m.f After that arose Mos from paradise, he tilled the soil en 3:~s.
broke the deceit of life and despised wealth i begot Cain and Abel. They grew and cn4:1-2.
der to show us the place of wealth and the dwe
each as he had chosen. Abel's work pleased
place of wisdom. Therefore Joshua was his m
re than Cain's, because he made offerings
ter because he knew the power of discipline,
d from his choicest goods while Cain gave
caleb joined him.'8 The stupid men did not e cheap things. They have become a sign en 4:4-5.
these things. Therefore they called light dar
whole mankind: whoever offers God his
And He gave them directives by which they s est goods is likened to Abel's works while the
walk. In all this they did not find their own he
ho brings cheap things is likened to the works
and did not return to walk by his direct
in or to the one who laughed at his father
Therefore each one attended to his own w
went to tell his two b~others,~'or again to the cn 9:nz.
and not to God's
9. 0 man, how long will yon not hear the
o decided to build a tower in the plain of
, forgetting the one who had piloted him
of him who tells you, Pause and know that ad saved him from the water of ws IO:~.
Godp But they did not pause; instead each ood and blessed his fathers. Now he said,
followed his own soul.* They did not visit th
, 'Come, let us dress stones and cut sycawhy
are you dying?TZ2 Do not go into the s and cedars, and let us build a tower for IS 9:s.
These are the reminders given to the belie Ives', forgetting about the tower of Calno IS 10:g.
that by walking in them and striving in th
God had divided their language because
mandments they will do the works worthy o
ted to build the tower in order to abannal
life. the Orient and to forget the law of God that jr zs:z7;
10. The birds of heaven do not sow or
d given into their hearts. Now be sober and
~ ohas d allowed them to take of everythin
to eat freely. Like an unjust and wicked ma
stand the punishment of the tower, for they
not reach heaven. Neithershall onestone be cf. en 11:~-9.
looks unjustly at other people's things, t anding on another in the temple over which ~k 19:44.
what does not belong to them. It has been
disputed with Christ whether it would be
to us to be attentive to them ourselves, in or
d down. For this generation will not pass
understand all the parables," to have k before this happens to it. Mk 13:SO.
edge, and not ourselves to become thieves
. Now is the time to act for the Lord, be-
.cf,Jr 37:9;
but to walk instead in the way of the just e our salvation is in a time of affliction.* If 33%
early times who were pleasing to God. F se who love his salvationt can know his steps: i;; $z];!i,
reproached Adam for eating what he was d say constantly: God isgreat;* and if they can *ps 70(69):5.