ΝΑΜΑΤΑ ΓΛΥΚΥΡΡΟΙΑ: 'Know the Lord'

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.

Κυριακή 12 Δεκεμβρίου 2010

'Know the Lord'

St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 8:7-13

BRETHREN, if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been
no occasion for a second. For he finds fault with them when he says:
"The days will come, says the Lord, when I will establish a new
covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not like
the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took
them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did
not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them, says the
Lord. This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds,
and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people. And they shall not teach every one his fellow or
every one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall
know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be
merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no
more." In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete.
And what is becoming obsolete and growing Old is ready to vanish
away.