ΝΑΜΑΤΑ ΓΛΥΚΥΡΡΟΙΑ: If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies.

37 ὁ δὲ εἶπεν, ὁ ποιήσας τὸ ἔλεος μετ' αὐτοῦ. εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ ἰησοῦς, πορεύου καὶ σὺ ποίει ὁμοίως.
38 ἐν δὲ τῷ πορεύεσθαι αὐτοὺς αὐτὸς εἰσῆλθεν εἰς κώμην τινά: γυνὴ δέ τις ὀνόματι μάρθα ὑπεδέξατο αὐτόν.
39 καὶ τῇδε ἦν ἀδελφὴ καλουμένη μαριάμ, [ἣ] καὶ παρακαθεσθεῖσα πρὸς τοὺς πόδας τοῦ κυρίου ἤκουεν τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ.
40 ἡ δὲ μάρθα περιεσπᾶτο περὶ πολλὴν διακονίαν: ἐπιστᾶσα δὲ εἶπεν, κύριε, οὐ μέλει σοι ὅτι ἡ ἀδελφή μου μόνην με κατέλιπεν διακονεῖν; εἰπὲ οὖν αὐτῇ ἵνα μοι συναντιλάβηται.
41 ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῇ ὁ κύριος, μάρθα μάρθα, μεριμνᾷς καὶ θορυβάζῃ περὶ πολλά,
42 ἑνὸς δέ ἐστιν χρεία: μαριὰμ γὰρ τὴν ἀγαθὴν μερίδα ἐξελέξατο ἥτις οὐκ ἀφαιρεθήσεται αὐτῆς.

Δευτέρα 27 Δεκεμβρίου 2010

If we put bits into the mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies.

St. James' Universal Letter 3:1-10

BRETHREN, let not many of you become teachers, for you know that we who
teach shall be judged with greater strictness. For we all make many
mistakes, and if any one makes no mistakes in what he says he is a perfect
man, able to bridle the whole body also. If we put bits into the
mouths of horses that they may obey us, we guide their whole bodies.
Look at the ships also; though they are so great and are driven by
strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will
of the pilot directs. So the tongue is a little member and boasts of
great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire! And the
tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members,
staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on
fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea
creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by humankind, but no human being
can tame the tongue - a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it
we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made
in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and
cursing. My brethren, this ought not to be so.