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Ps 139(138):8-10.
Jr 23:24.
2 Co 6:16, 18:
Lv 26:ll-12.
Let us be
imitators of
Pachomiua
Cf. Ps 25(24):2.
Ac 20:32.
Let us chwse
the vocation of
the Koinonin
Cf. Tt 3:5.
Let us repent,
be watchful,
and give thanks
Cf. Ps 35(34):19.
Pachomian Koinonia 111 he Instructions of Theodore
ing, and ifI abide at the sea'horizon,
lshine on you. Knowing the great grace
hand is there. For we have just heard
nherited-for he ha not dealt with w
fill heaven, I fill earth.' And again, I
o OUT sins, and he has not punished w
there, I will walk there, I will be their
r iniquities-let us repent, let us
they shall be my people, says the Lor
let us give thanks to Him saying,
mighty.
6e you, Lord, for having taken me as
35. So then, having u~derstood and not hawinggladdened my enemies
meaning of all this according to the t
ark and let us repeatJeremiah's words,
edge of the Scriptures, the breath of
nd of my captivity I repented, then I
be imitators of Apa Pachomius' life.
er the day of my shame. For we know,
quire his confidence in this age and t
has taught us, that Ifwe return and if
Let us put our trust in the Lord, for
we shall be saued and we shall know
comforts us and encourages us. He it
stand in times of trwt in what are but
ways gives us strength, to him [it is] a
and in wicked thoughts that are not
word of his grace [that] we have giuen o
over. [He it is] who hmpower to build
to give w an heritage among all the
t us search our ways and examine OUT
s; let us return to the Lord our God; let
36. Let us choose the part of the voc
the holy Koinonia and mutual love wit
our hearts on our hands before God who
n. ' And when our heart is minded to go
one, seeing the attitude of the Fathers of
the Lord, let us turn back and seek
nonia the great desire that shone in a
times over. The Holy Spirit has taught
hearts for the love of the Koinonia, an
~n the Scriptures, the breath of God, to
which had previously been rooted in the
out with our whole heart, saying to us
love] has now by Christ's grace come to lig
Isaiah, Seek God, and if you find him,
we ourselves had shrouded it with the vei
im while he tistillnear you. Let the wicknegligence,
while through our lack of fe
abandon his way and the lawless man
quenched the warmth of the Holy S
his designs; let him return to the Lord
dwells within us through mercy and not b
I 1 take pity on him; for he will gmnt you
of our works.'
37. God, who is merciful, has not forg
Knowing what God's mercy is, therefore,
to the point that the wicked one might r
forgiveness, we must not spoil days and
our loss. On the contrary, in his love he
n end, we must not be negligent through
from the sleep of death, and in his mer
fear, becoming slack and quenching the
on prodding us day by day, saying to ou
the Holy Spirit and the love of the law of
Wake up, you who sleep, rise from the dead
om which he has called forth in us, on the
Eph 5:14.
Ps 103(102):1
Ps 30(29):2.
Jr 31:19.
Is 30:15.
Let us seek
God
Lm 3:40-41.
Is 55:6-7.
Let us not
be negligent