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20. Philosophize these things with us, O divine and sacred head, who have gathered much experience over a long time, from which wisdom comes. With these things prepare your people. Teach them to break bread for the hungry, and to gather in the poor who are without shelter, and to cover the naked, and not to neglect those of their own blood; and now especially, so that our good may be from our need, not from our abundance; in which fruitfulness God rejoices more, than in the multitude of the offering and the greatness of the gift. In addition to these things, and before these things, be for me a Moses, or a Phinehas today. Stand for us, and make atonement; and let the breaking cease, whether through a spiritual sacrifice, or through prayer and rational intercession. Restrain the wrath of the Lord by your mediation; stop the succession of the scourge. He knows how to respect the grey hairs of a father interceding for his children. Pray concerning the past wickedness; give security for the future. Bring near 35.964 a people purified by plague and fear. Ask for bodily food; ask before this also for the angelic food that comes down from heaven. If you do this, you will make God your own, you will tame heaven, you will restore the early and the latter rain; The Lord will give goodness, and our land will give its fruit, the earth below, that is, the daily fruit, and our dust, the eternal, which we shall store up in the divine wine-presses through you, who bring near both us and what is ours, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be the glory for ever. Amen.

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Κʹ. Ταῦτα συμφιλοσόφησον ἡμῖν, ὦ θεία καὶ ἱερὰ κεφαλὴ, καὶ πολλὴν ἐμπειρίαν τῷ μακρῷ χρόνῳ συλλεξαμένη, ἐξ ἧς σοφία γίνεται. Τούτοις τὸν λαόν σου κατάρτισαι. ∆ίδαξον διαθρύπτειν πεινῶσι τὸν ἄρτον, καὶ πτωχοὺς ἀστέγους συνάγειν, καὶ γυμνότητα περιστέλλειν, καὶ μὴ περιορᾷν τοὺς ἀφ' αἵματος· καὶ νῦν μάλιστα, ἵν' ᾖ τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἡμῶν ἐκ τῆς χρείας, μὴ τοῦ περισσεύματος· ᾗ μᾶλλον καρποφορίᾳ Θεὸς εὐφραίνεται, ἢ πλήθει τῆς εἰσφορᾶς καὶ μεγέθει τῆς ἐπιδόσεως. Ἐπὶ τούτοις, καὶ πρὸ τούτων, γενοῦ μοι Μωσῆς, ἢ Φινεὲς σήμερον. Στῆθι περὶ ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐξίλασαι· καὶ κοπασάτω ἡ θραῦσις, εἴτε διὰ θυσίας πνευματικῆς, εἴτε δι' εὐχῆς καὶ λογικῆς ἐντεύξεως. Ἐπίσχες τὴν ὀργὴν Κυρίου τῇ μεσιτείᾳ· στῆσον τὴν ἀκολουθίαν τῆς μάστιγος. Οἶδεν αἰδεῖσθαι πατρὸς πολιὰν ὑπὲρ τέκνων πρεσβεύουσαν. ∆εήθητι περὶ τῆς παρελθούσης κακίας· τὸ μέλλον ἐγγύησαι. Προσάγαγε 35.964 λαὸν πληγῇ καὶ φόβῳ κεκαθαρμένον. Αἴτησαι τὴν σωματικὴν τροφήν· αἴτησαι πρὸ ταύτης καὶ τὴν ἀγγελικὴν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καταβαίνουσαν. Ἂν τοῦτο ποιήσῃς, οἰκειώσεις Θεὸν, ἡμερώσεις οὐρανὸν, ἀποδώσεις ὑετὸν πρώιμόν τε καὶ ὄψιμον· Ὁ Κύριος δώσει χρηστότητα, καὶ ἡ γῆ ἡμῶν δώσει τὸν καρπὸν αὐτῆς, ἡ κάτω γε, τὸν ἐφήμερον, καὶ ὁ χοῦς ἡμῶν, τὸν αἰώνιον, ὃν ταῖς θείαις ληνοῖς ἐναποθησόμεθα διὰ σοῦ, προσάγοντος ἡμᾶς τε καὶ τὰ ἡμέτερα, ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, ᾧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. Ἀμήν.