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do they come? Fool, what you sow is not made alive unless it first dies. And what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some of the others. But God gives it a body as He willed. And a little after: So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 31.808 That one must not expect the coming of the Lord to be local or carnal, but to await it suddenly in the glory of the Father over all the inhabited world. Chap. 2. MATTHEW. Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘here,’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will arise, and they will give great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect. MARK. But you, take heed; behold, I have foretold all things to you. But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars of heaven will be falling, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 1 THESSALONIANS. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep; for the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. RULE 69. Things which are forbidden in context, and receive a sentence of threat. Chap. 1. MATTHEW. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man ... Depart from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry, and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger, and you did not take Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me. LUKE. Woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation; woe to you who are full, for you shall hunger; woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep; woe, when all men speak well of you. But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. TO THE ROMANS. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased 31.809 mind, to do those things which are not fitting, being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, covetousness, malice, and so on. For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet, and if there is any other commandment, and so on. 1 CORINTHIANS. Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 2 CORINTHIANS. Lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults. TO THE GALATIANS. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. TO THE GALATIANS. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. TO THE EPHESIANS. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; and filthiness, or foolish talking, coarse jesting, which are not fitting. TO THE COLOSSIANS. Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness,

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ἔρχονται; Ἄφρον, σὺ ὃ σπείρεις, οὐ ζωοποιεῖται, ἐὰν μὴ ἀποθάνῃ πρῶτον. Καὶ ὃ σπείρεις, οὐ τὸ σῶμα τὸ γενησόμενον σπείρεις, ἀλλὰ γυμνὸν κόκκον, εἰ τύχοι σίτου, ἤ τινος τῶν λοιπῶν. Ὁ δὲ Θεὸς δίδωσιν αὐτῷ σῶμα, καθὼς ἠθέλησε. Καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα· Οὕτω καὶ ἡ ἀνάστασις τῶν νεκρῶν. Σπείρεται ἐν φθορᾷ, ἐγείρεται ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ. Σπείρεται ἐν ἀτιμίᾳ, ἐγείρεται ἐν δόξῃ· σπείρεται ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ, ἐγείρεται ἐν δυνάμει· σπείρεται σῶμα ψυχικὸν, ἐγείρεται σῶμα πνευ ματικόν. 31.808 Ὅτι οὐ δεῖ τοπικὴν ἢ σαρκικὴν ἐκδέχεσθαι τὴν παρουσίαν τοῦ Κυρίου, ἀλλ' ἐν τῇ δόξῃ τοῦ Πατρὸς κατὰ πάσης τῆς οἰκουμένης ἀθρόως προσδοκᾷν. Κεφάλ. βʹ. ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΣ. Τότε, ἐάν τις ὑμῖν εἴπῃ· Ἰδοὺ ὧδε ὁ Χριστὸς, ἢ ὧδε, μὴ πιστεύσητε. Ἐγερθή σονται γὰρ ψευδόχριστοι καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται, καὶ δώσουσι σημεῖα μεγάλα καὶ τέρατα, ὥστε πλανῆ σαι, εἰ δυνατὸν, καὶ τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς. ΜΑΡΚΟΣ. Ὑμεῖς δὲ βλέπετε· ἰδοὺ, προείρηκα ὑμῖν πάντα. Ἀλλ' ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις μετὰ τὴν θλίψιν ἐκείνην ὁ ἥλιος σκοτισθήσεται, καὶ ἡ σελήνη οὐ δώσει τὸ φέγγος αὑτῆς, καὶ οἱ ἀστέρες τοῦ οὐρα νοῦ ἔσονται ἐκπίπτοντες, καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις αἱ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς σαλευθήσονται. Καὶ τότε ὄψονται τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐρχόμενον ἐν νεφέλαις μετὰ δυνάμεως καὶ δόξης πολλῆς. ΠΡΟΣ ΘΕΣΣ. αʹ. Τοῦτο γὰρ ὑμῖν λέγομεν ἐν λόγῳ Κυρίου, ὅτι ἡμεῖς οἱ ζῶντες, οἱ περιλειπόμενοι εἰς τὴν παρου σίαν τοῦ Κυρίου, οὐ μὴ φθάσωμεν τοὺς κοιμη θέντας· ὅτι αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος ἐν κελεύσματι, ἐν φωνῇ ἀρχαγγέλου, καὶ ἐν σάλπιγγι Θεοῦ καταβήσεται ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ, καὶ οἱ νεκροὶ ἐν Χριστῷ ἀναστήσονται πρῶτον. ΟΡΟΣ ΞΘʹ. Ὅσα κατὰ συνάφειαν ἀπαγορεύονται, καὶ ἀπόφασιν δέχεται ἀπειλῆς. Κεφάλ. αʹ. ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΣ. Ἐκ γὰρ τῆς καρδίας ἐξέρχονται διαλογισμοὶ πονηροὶ, φόνοι, μοιχεῖαι, πορ νεῖαι, κλοπαὶ, ψευδομαρτυρίαι, βλασφη μίαι. Ταῦτά ἐστι τὰ κοινοῦντα τὸν ἄνθρωπον ... Πορεύεσθε ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, οἱ κατηραμένοι, εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον τὸ ἡτοιμασμένον τῷ διαβόλῳ καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις αὐτοῦ. Ἐπείνασα γὰρ, καὶ οὐκ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν· ἐδίψησα, καὶ οὐκ ἐποτίσατέ με· ξένος ἤμην, καὶ οὐ συνηγάγετέ με· γυμνὸς, καὶ οὐ περιεβάλετέ με· ἀσθενὴς, καὶ ἐν φυλακῇ, καὶ οὐκ ἐπεσκέψασθέ με. ΛΟΥΚΑΣ. Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς πλουσίοις, ὅτι ἀπέχετε τὴν παράκλησιν ὑμῶν· οὐαὶ οἱ ἐμπεπλησμένοι, ὅτι πεινάσετε· οὐαὶ ὑμῖν οἱ γελῶντες νῦν, ὅτι πενθήσετε καὶ κλαύσετε· οὐαὶ ὅταν καλῶς εἴπωσιν ὑμᾶς πάν τες οἱ ἄνθρωποι. Προσέχετε δὲ ἑαυτοῖς, μήποτε βαρυνθῶσιν ὑμῶν αἱ καρδίαι ἐν κραιπάλῃ, καὶ μέθῃ, καὶ μερίμναις βιωτικαῖς, καὶ αἰφνιδίως ἐπιστῇ ἐφ' ὑμᾶς ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκείνη. ΠΡΟΣ ΡΩΜ. Καὶ καθὼς οὐκ ἐδοκίμασαν τὸν Θεὸν ἔχειν ἐν ἐπι γνώσει, παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ Θεὸς εἰς ἀδόκιμον 31.809 νοῦν, ποιεῖν τὰ μὴ καθήκοντα, πεπληρωμένους πάσῃ ἀδικίᾳ, πορνείᾳ, πλεονεξίᾳ, κακίᾳ, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Τὸ γὰρ, Οὐ μοιχεύσεις, οὐ φονεύσεις, οὐ κλέψεις, οὐκ ἐπιθυμήσεις, καὶ εἴ τις ἑτέρα ἐν τολὴ, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡ. αʹ. Μὴ πλανᾶσθε· οὔτε πόρνοι, οὔτε εἰδωλολάτραι, οὔτε μοιχοὶ, οὔτε μαλακοὶ, οὔτε ἀρσενοκοῖται, οὔτε πλεο νέκται, οὔτε μέθυσοι, οὐ λοίδοροι, οὐχ ἅρπα γες, βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν. ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡ. βʹ. Μήπως ἔρις, ζῆλοι, θυμοὶ, ἐριθεῖαι, κατα λαλιαὶ, ψιθυρισμοὶ, φυσιώσεις, ἀκαταστασίαι. ΠΡΟΣ ΓΑΛ. Φανερὰ δέ ἐστι τὰ ἔργα τῆς σαρκὸς, ἅτινά ἐστι μοιχεία, πορνεία, ἀκαθαρσία, ἀσέλ γεια, εἰδωλολατρεία, φαρμακεία, ἔχθραι, ἔρις, ζῆλοι, θυμοὶ, ἐριθεῖαι, διχοστασίαι, αἱρέσεις, φθόνοι, φόνοι, μέθαι, κῶμοι, καὶ τὰ ὅμοια τού τοις, ἃ προλέγω ὑμῖν, καθὼς καὶ προεῖπον, ὅτι οἱ τὰ τοιαῦτα πράσσοντες βασιλείαν Θεοῦ οὐ κληρονομήσουσιν. ΠΡΟΣ ΓΑΛ. Μὴ γενώμεθα κε νόδοξοι, ἀλλήλους προσκαλούμενοι, ἀλλή λοις φθονοῦντες. ΠΡΟΣ ΕΦΕΣ. Πᾶσα πικρία, καὶ θυμὸς, καὶ ὀργὴ, καὶ κραυγὴ, καὶ βλασφημία ἀρθήτω ἀφ' ὑμῶν σὺν πάσῃ κακίᾳ. Πορνεία δὲ, καὶ πᾶσα ἀκαθαρσία, ἢ πλεονεξία, μηδὲ ὀνο μαζέσθω ἐν ὑμῖν, καθὼς πρέπει ἁγίοις· καὶ αἰ σχρότης, ἢ μωρολογία, εὐτραπελία, τὰ οὐκ ἀν ήκοντα. ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΛ. Νεκρώσατε οὖν τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· πορνείαν, ἀκαθαρσίαν,