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for the things in which they sinned against me in their whole life, they repented from their soul in fear and longing and wept, hearing and believing this day of my coming and presence and judgment, but you despised my commandments, as if I were one of the rejected and weak. Therefore then, with whom you chose to be, and whose words and deeds you performed, imitating them, with these very ones, also enjoy what has been prepared for them! ".

Thus also to the patriarchs he will set against them the holy patriarchs, John the Golden-mouthed, John the Merciful, Gregory the Theologian, Ignatius, Tarasius, Methodius and the rest who not only in word but also in deed have become an image of the true God; to the metropolitans the holy metropolitans, Basil, Gregory, his brother, (110) and his namesake and wonder-worker, Ambrose and Nicholas. And to speak simply, each patriarch and each metropolitan and each bishop God will judge with the apostles and holy fathers who were distinguished before him in each metropolis and episcopate, and having set them all opposite one another - as you hear him saying: "The sheep on the right, and the goats on the left," he will say: "Did you not live where these served and were slaves to me, and did you not sit on their thrones? Why did you not also imitate their life and conduct? Why with unclean hands and even more unclean souls were you not afraid to hold and to eat me, the undefiled and unblemished? Did you not shudder at all, did you not tremble? Why did you spend the things of the poor for your own pleasures and for your own people and relatives? Why did you sell me for gold and silver, like Judas? Why, having purchased me also as a worthless slave, did you misuse me to serve the desires of the flesh? As therefore you did not honor me, neither will I spare you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity, depart! ".

So thus fathers will be judged by fathers, friends and relatives by friends and relatives, brothers by brothers, slaves and free by slaves and free, rich and poor by rich and poor, those in marriage by those who were distinguished in marriage, those in freedom by those who lived in freedom, and simply, every sinful person on the terrible day of judgment will see opposite him one like himself going into (111) eternal life and into that unspeakable light and will be judged by him. What am I saying? Each of the sinners looking at one like himself, king at king, ruler at ruler, and an unrepentant fornicator at a repentant fornicator, poor man at poor man, and slave at slave, and remembering that that very one was also a human being, having the same soul, the same hands, the same eyes and simply all other things equally and was with him in life and had the same rank, trade, occupation, but did not want to imitate him, immediately his mouth is stopped and he remains without excuse, having nothing at all to say.When therefore the worldly see the worldly, and sinful kings see holy kings at the right hand, and the rich and those under the yoke of life see the holy ones, and all those in torments see their equals in the kingdom of heaven, and then they are ashamed and found without excuse, just as that rich man saw Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham, while he was being tormented in the fire.

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ὑπέρ ὧν εἰς ἐμέ ἥμαρτον ἐν πάσῃ τῇ ζωῇ αὐτῶν, ἀπό ψυχῆς ἐν φόβῳ καί πόθῳ μετενόουν καί ἔκλαιον, ταύτην τήν ἡμέραν τῆς ἐμῆς ἐλεύσεως καί παρουσίας καί κρίσεως ἀκούοντες καί πιστεύοντες, ὑμεῖς δέ κατεφρονήσατέ μου τῶν ἐντολῶν, ὥς τινος ἑνός τῶν ἀπερριμμένων καί ἀσθενῶν. Λοιπόν οὖν μεθ᾿ οὗ συνεῖναι ᾑρετίσασθε καί ὧν τούς λόγους καί τάς πράξεις ποιοῦντες, αὐτούς ἐμιμήσασθε, μετά τούτων αὐτῶν, καί τῶν ἐκείνοις ἡτοιμασμένων ἐπαπολαύσατε! ".

Οὕτω καί τοῖς πατριάρχαις τούς ἁγίους ἀντιπαραθῇ πατριάρχας, Ἰωάννην τόν Χρυσορρήμονα, Ἰωάννην τόν Ἐλεήμονα, Γρηγόριον τόν Θεολόγον, Ἰγνάτιον, Ταράσιον, Μεθόδιον καί τούς λοιπούς οἵτινες οὐ λόγῳ μόνῳ ἀλλά καί ἔργῳ τοῦ ἀληθινοῦ Θεοῦ γεγόνασιν ἀπεικόνισμα· τοῖς μητροπολίταις τούς ἁγίους μητροπολίτας, Βασίλειον, Γρηγόριον, τόν ἀδελφόν αὐτοῦ, (110) καί τόν τούτου ὁμώνυμον καί θαυματουργόν, Ἀμβρόσιον καί Νικόλαον. Καί ἁπλῶς εἰπεῖν, ἕκαστον πατριάρχην καί ἕκαστον μητροπολίτην καί ἕκαστον ἐπίσκοπον μετά τῶν πρό αὐτοῦ διαπρεψάντων ἀποστόλων τε καί πατέρων ἁγίων ἐν ἑκάστῃ μητροπόλει καί ἐπισκοπῇ κρινεῖ ὁ Θεός, καί ἐξ ἐναντίας ἀλλήλων στήσας πάντας αὐτούς - καθώς ἀκούεις αὐτοῦ λέγοντος· "Τά μέν πρόβατα ἐκ δεξιῶν, τά δέ ἐρίφια ἐξ εὐωνύμων", ἐρεῖ· "Οὐχί ἔνθα οὗτοι ἐθεράπευσαν καί ἐδούλευσάν μοι, ἐκεῖ καί ὑμεῖς ἐβιώσατε καί εἰς τούς θρόνους αὐτῶν ἐκαθίσατε; ∆ιά τί μή καί τόν βίον καί τήν πολιτείαν αὐτῶν ἐμιμήσασθε; ∆ιά τί ἀκαθάρτοις χερσί καί ἀκαθαρτοτέραις ψυχαῖς τόν ἄχραντον ἐμέ καί ἀμόλυντον κρατεῖν καί ἐσθίειν οὐκ ἐφοβήθητε; Οὐκ ἐφρίξατε ὅλως, οὐκ ἐτρομάξατε; ∆ιά τί τά τῶν πενήτων εἰς τάς ὑμετέρας ἡδονάς καί εἰς τούς ἰδίους καί συγγενεῖς ὑμῶν ἀναλώσατε; ∆ιά τί με χρυσίῳ καί ἀργυρίῳ, ὡς ὁ Ἰούδας, ἀπεμπολήσατε; ∆ιά τί με καί ὡς δοῦλον ἀχρεῖον ἐξαγοράσαντες, εἰς τά τῆς σαρκός με θελήματα διακονεῖν ἀπεχρήσασθε; Ὡς οὖν ὑμεῖς με οὐκ ἐπιμήσατε, οὐδέ ἐγώ φείσομαι ὑμῶν. Ἀπέλθατε ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ οἱ ἐργάται τῆς ἀνομίας, ἀπέλθατε! ".

Οὕτω τοίνυν πατέρες παρά πατέρων, φίλοι καί συγγενεῖς παρά φίλων καί συγγενῶν, ἀδελφοί παρά ἀδελφῶν, δοῦλοι καί ἐλεύθεροι παρά δούλων καί ἐλευθέρων, πλούσιοι καί πένητες ὑπό πλουσίων καί πενήτων, οἱ ἐν γάμῳ παρά τῶν ἐν γάμῳ διαπρεψάντων, οἱ ἐν ἐλευθερίᾳ παρά τῶν ἐν ἐλευθερίᾳ βιωσάντων, καί ἁπλῶς πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἁμαρτωλός ἐν τῇ φοβερᾷ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς κρίσεως ἀπεναντίας αὐτοῦ εἰς τήν (111) εἰς τήν αἰωνίαν ζωήν καί εἰς τό ἀνεκλάλητον ἐκεῖνο φῶς ὄψεται τόν ὅμοιον αὐτοῦ καί κριθήσεται παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ. Οἷόν τι λέγω; Ἀπιδών ἕκαστος τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν πρός τόν ὅμοιον αὐτοῦ, βασιλεύς πρός βασιλέα, ἄρχων πρός ἄρχοντα καί πόρνος μή μετανοήσας πρός πόρνον μετανοήσαντα, φτωχός πρός φτωχόν καί δοῦλος πρός δοῦλον, καί μνησθείς ὅτι καί αὐτός ἐκεῖνος ἄνθρωπος ἦν, τήν αὐτήν ψυχήν ἔχων, τάς αὐτάς χεῖρας, τούς αὐτούς ὀφθαλμούς καί ἁπλῶς τἆλλα πάντα ἐξ ἴσης καί συνῆν αὐτῷ ἐν τῷ βίῳ καί ὅμοιον εἶχε τό ἀξίωμα, τήν τέχνην, τό ἐπιτήδευμα, μιμήσασθαι δέ αὐτόν οὐκ ἠθέλησεν, εὐθύς ἐμφράσσεται τό στόμα αὐτοῦ καί μένει ἀναπολόγητος, μή ἔχων ὅλως τι φθέγξασθαι.Ὅταν οὖν οἱ κοσμικοί κοσμικούς ἴδωσι καί οἱ ἁμαρτωλοί βασιλεῖς βασιλεῖς ἁγίους ἐκ δεξιῶν, πλουσίους τε καί ὑπό ζυγόν ἁγίους οἱ ὑπό ζυγόν βίου, καί οἱ ἐν βασάνοις πάντες ὁμοίους αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὐρανῶν, καί τηνικαῦτα αἰσχυνθῶσι καί ἀναπολόγητοι εὑρεθῶσιν, ὥσπερ ὁ πλούσιος ἐκεῖνος ἐν τοῖς κόλποις τοῦ Ἀβραάμ τόν Λάζαρον, ἐκεῖνος ἀποτηγανιζόμενος ἐν τῷ πυρί.

Τί ποιήσωμεν ἡμεῖς ἄρα οἱ μοναχοί, οἱ κατ᾿ ἐμέ, λέγω, ῥάθυμοι καί ἁμαρτωλοί, ποία ἄρα αἰσχύνη ἡμᾶς καί βάσανος λήψεται, ὅταν τούς ἐν βίῳ καί γυναῖκας καί οἰκέτιδας ἔχοντας καί οἰκέτας, μετά γυναικῶν ὁμοῦ καί τέκνων θεασώμεθα ἐν τῇ