pachorn~an ko~nonla - Alin Suciu

Cf. Jon 4:ll.
Cf. Heb 2:l.
Heb 12:16.
Pachomian Koznonia III The Letters of Saint Pachomius
their right hand from their left.' Be vigilant
bend your bows, for your enemies have bent t
divide their heritage among their sons, but
ave everything to Jacob who dwelt in the
bows-a bitter thing. Remember that the ith innocence and was subject to their oropen
their door to anyone who passes by. W olomon also says about Esau, A disobedithe
precept to enter our room and to shu
door*s lest we be tossed about by euey wind.
5. We must then be more attentive not t
carried away in the time of kindness, but ra
ongoes to ruin. Moses says likewise, Curse be
him who curses father and mother.* Solosays
again, Nothing good for the deceitful
t He lost the blessings therefore, and was deto
imitate those times that were before the fl d of his father's heritage.
Each one of the just was pleasing to God, a What shall I say of Adam who, at the beginwith
his whole house and his children, and n
was found in them. Later on, however, ini
increased and the whole earth gave itself to
of mankind, gave the first example of disience
and contempt? To him was given power
all the beasts of the earth, just as everything
of the flesh. They offended God, and at the be given twofold to the firstborn. But after
of their condemnation, when the flood co
the earth, only Noah with his house and h'
dren was saved. While the world was peri
God's order in contempt he did not only
power but was cast out of the place he had
ved for his dwelline-iust as the fornicator
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he held the helm of justice and he was not t of the Church and will be deprived of
rpished by any storm of sins. But the o . Everything he endured, those who hold
laughed at him and declared his nudity t ands in contempt will suffer, and
brothers was cursed along with his descend h pride they will experience the word
Then was accomplished what was written, He ture, He spoke, and the earth swallowed
dishonors thejwt mansins, and, A curse b
him who curses father and mother,*' like Let us imitate the example of the righteous
who despised his Thus it was writ who watched over his house with wisdom
him, Let no one be a fornicator and impio s saved by his humility while the giants'
Esau. as perishing. It is not surprising that he,
6. It was through Rebekah's cunnin all humankind, was saved with his children
Esau received neither the blessing nor t eir wives, for even beasts and birds escaped
born's garment. Because he had o and were saved through obedience. Noah
parents, they paid him back, and provok dove out of the ark and, complying with
pride to emulate the good action by 1 of the one who sent it, it went and re-
cob in his clothes. Indeed he did not ning contemptuous men by
use the clothes of those whom in his p bird listened to a righteous
hardness he had neglected. Therefore t not listen to God. All the
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