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the royal throne, bringing in her own foster-children with confidence. For your prayers, he says, and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. Why then should we not also ascend to that height, having been delivered from this untimely covetousness and useless luxury and ambition? Let us make what is superfluous useful, having sent ahead that great wealth, and having entrusted it to the right hand of the Judge, who will be able both to guard it with exactness, and on the day of judgment will for this reason be gentle and merciful; even if we have committed countless sins, He will grant us pardon and a defense; which may we all attain, by the grace and loving-kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and dominion, unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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βασιλικὸν θρόνον, τοὺς αὑτῆς τροφίμους μετ' ἀδείας εἰσάγουσα. Αἱ εὐχαὶ γάρ σου, φησὶ, καὶ αἱ ἐλεημοσύναι ἀνέβησαν εἰς μνημόσυνον ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ. Τί οὖν μὴ καὶ ἡμεῖς πρὸς τὸ ὕψος ἀναβῶμεν ἐκεῖνο, ἀπαλλαγέντες τῆς ἀκαίρου ταύτης πλεονεξίας καὶ ἀχρήστου τρυφῆς καὶ φιλοτιμίας; Τὰ περιττὰ ποιήσωμεν χρήσιμα, τὸν πολὺν ἐκεῖνον προέμενοι πλοῦτον, καὶ τῇ δεξιᾷ τοῦ δικαστοῦ τοῦτον ἐγχειρίσαντες, ὃς καὶ φυλάξαι δυνήσεται μετ' ἀκριβείας, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς κρίσεως ἐντεῦθεν ἥμερος γενήσεται καὶ ἵλεως· κἂν μυρία ὦμεν πεπλημμεληκότες, μεταδώσει συγγνώμης ἡμῖν καὶ ἀπολογίας· ἧς γένοιτο πάντας ἡμᾶς ἐπιτυχεῖν, χάριτι καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ᾧ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος, εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.