Philokalia. In 5 volumes
The collection of ascetic writings of the Fathers of the fourth to fifteenth centuries, compiled by St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Corinth (1731-1805) and edited by St. Nicodemus the Svyatogorets (1749-1809), was first published in Greek in 1782. The Greek word "Dobrotolubie" ("Philokalia") means: love of the beautiful, the sublime, the good, love of beauty, krasnotolubie. Beauty means spiritual beauty, to which a Christian attends, following the precepts of the ascetic fathers, collected in this collection. The full title of the collection was "The Dobrotolubie of the holy sober-minded, collected from our holy and God-bearing fathers, in which, through active and contemplative moral philosophy, the mind is purified, enlightened, and perfected."The Greek "Dobrotolyubie" was translated into Slavonic by the Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky, and later a great work on the translation of the collection into colloquial Russian was done by St. Theophanes the Zatvornik (in the world Georgy Vasilyevich Govorov, 1815-1894). The present edition is realized according to the 1905 edition "by the dependence of the Russian on Athos Panteleimon Monastery". This word translates its Greek name, Philokalia, which means: love of the beautiful, the sublime, the good. In the closest way it contains the interpretation of the hidden life in the Lord Jesus Christ. The truly Christian life, hidden in our Lord Jesus Christ, is conceived, unfolds and rises to perfection, in its own measure, according to the good pleasure of God the Father, by the action of the grace of the Holy Spirit inherent in Christians, under the guidance of Christ the Lord Himself, who promised to be with us all the days without ceasing.
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