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Life and Time according to Basil the Great (1) (George Mantzarides, Professor Emeritus of the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

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Basil the Great experienced the relationship between time and life and presented it in the most penetrating manner in his written works. His teaching on the subject, which had a profound effect on later theology and thinking in general, is still remarkably topical today. It is true that this great hierarch from Cappadocia did not write any systematic work on the matter, but in his interpretation of Scripture, and, in particular, the ‘Six Days’ of the Old Testament, as well as his rebuttal of the Eunomian heresy concerning the person of Christ, he often referred to time and the issues related to it. We usually divide time into three parts: the past, present and future. But this tripartite distinction seems not ...

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What they give up (Saint Symeon the New Theologian)

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People who are ambitious, sensual or avaricious can’t bear the threat, the mockery or the contempt of other people; the denial of their pleasures; or financial losses. And so they abandon the things that are heavenly and imperishable for the sake of those which are worldly and perishable. They lose the immortal because of the temporary. They lose their salvation over things that are not worth anything. Saint Symeon the New Theologian

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