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do not turn aside. For He does not strike you to kill, but to turn you back from error. Distribute without distinction the flower that blossomed from the rod of Jesse, give to drink the immortal spring gushing forth from the steep rock, so that from there into the fold of delight do not gather wealth, or rather, do not love wealth; flee the care of money, do not hold fast to decrees; do not gather money, through which crimes grow, but sow food generously to the poor, hoping to reap the soul’s abundant and ripe sheaf. O poor man, do not be fainthearted, do not renounce life, do not blaspheme, but give thanks, endure the short-lived web of poverty, look upon your example, Lazarus, and be strengthened in hope; for you yourself will also attain the Abrahamic bosoms of rest; where may God, the Lord of all, deem us also worthy, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be glory and power with the Holy Spirit, now and forever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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μὴ ἐκκλίνῃς. οὐ γὰρ πατάσσει σε, ἵνα ἀποκτείνῃ, ἀλλ' ἵνα ἀπὸ τῆς πλάνης σε ἐπιστρέψῃ. Τὸ ἐκ τῆς Ἰεσσαὶ ῥάβδου βλαστῆσαν ἄνθος νέμου ἀδιακρίτως, τὴν ἐκ τῆς ἀκροτόμου πέτρας κοχλαδὸν βλαστάνουσαν πηγὴν ἀθάνατον ποτίζου, ἵν' ἐντεῦθεν εἰς τὴν μάνδραν τῆς τρυφῆς μὴ σύναγε πλοῦτον, μᾶλλον δὲ τὸν πλοῦτον μὴ ἀγάπα· χρημάτων φροντίδα φεῦγε, τὰ δίγματα μὴ σύνεχε· τὰ χρήματα μὴ σύναγε, δι' ὧν φύεται τὰ ἐγκλήματα, ἀλλὰ σπεῖρε πλουσίως τὴν τροφὴν τοῖς πένησιν, ἐλπίζων λάβρον καὶ πέπειρον τὸ δράγμα θερίσαι τῆς ψυχῆς. Ὁ πένης μὴ ὀλιγοψύχει, μὴ ἀπολέγου τὴν ζωὴν, μὴ βλασφημήσῃς, ἀλλ' εὐχαρίστει, ὑπόμεινον τὸ ὀλιγοχρόνιον τῆς πενίας ἴστριον, ἐπίβλεπε εἰς τὸν γνώμονά σου Λάζαρον, καὶ ἐλπίδι ἐνδυναμοῦ· τεύξῃ γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸς τῶν Ἀβραμιαίων τῆς ἀναπαύσεως κόλπων· ἔνθα καὶ αὐτοὺς ἡμᾶς ὁ πάντων ∆εσπότης Θεὸς ἀξιώσειε ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, ᾧ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος σὺν τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι, νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ, καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.