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For he who drinks from this cup is sober indeed in Christ, but seems to the foolish to be drunk, thinking the thoughts of the Savior. This cup the Lord Christ mixed for us from his blood, and he called many guests for us, and he gathered countless evangelical fish, and filled the net of Peter, and the objects of contemplation became his in a wondrous way, and the storm made his fishing more brilliant; and those whom he did not catch by persuading, these he caught alive when they were afraid, a lightning bolt assisting him in the catch.

But let no one call this an insult to the new flock, if they were hunted by lightning; for Christ is accustomed to bridle kicking colts with lightning. And whoever knows the calling of the blessed Paul, rejoices having been called with Paul, and having seen the Lord Christ through a lightning flash, becomes a disciple of Christ. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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Ὁ γὰρ ἐκ τούτου τοῦ ποτηρίου πίνων νήφει μὲν ἐν Χριστῷ, μεθύειν δὲ τοῖς ἀνοήτοις δοκεῖ, τὰ τοῦ Σωτῆρος φρονῶν. Τοῦτον καὶ ἡμῖν ὁ ∆εσπότης Χριστὸς ἐξ αἵματος ἐκέρασε τὸν κρατῆρα, καὶ πολλοὺς ἡμῖν συνεκάλεσε δαιτυμόνας, καὶ τῶν εὐαγγελικῶν ἰχθύων ἀπείρους συνεκάλεσε, καὶ τοῦ Πέτρου τὴν σαγήνην ἐπλήρωσε, καὶ γέγονεν αὐτῷ τὰ τῆς θεωρίας ἐκ παραδόξου, καὶ τὴν ἁλιείαν αὐτῷ λαμπροτέραν ἐποίησεν ὁ χειμών· καὶ οὓς οὐκ ἐθήρευσε πείθων, τούτους φοβηθέντας ἐζώγρησεν, ἀστραπῆς αὐτῷ πρὸς τὴν ἄγραν συλλαμβανομένης.

Ἀλλὰ μηδεὶς ὕβριν τοῦτο τῆς νέας ἀγέλης ὀνομαζέτω, εἰ δι' ἀστραπῆς ἐθηράθησαν· εἴωθε γὰρ ὁ Χριστὸς τοὺς λακτίζοντας πώλους δι' ἀστραπῆς χαλινοῦν. Καὶ ὅστις οἶδε τοῦ μακαρίου Παύλου τὴν κλῆσιν, ἀγάλλεται μετὰ τοῦ Παύλου κληθεὶς, καὶ τὸν ∆εσπότην Χριστὸν δι' ἀστραπῆς θεασάμενος, γίνεται Χριστοῦ μαθητής. Αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.