Плоды экуменического древа. Экуменическое движение в экклезиологическом аспекте

41. Robert Moffat, a professor of a Protestant seminary in New York. «The Word was divine», — thought Moffat and Goodspeed. But in the Greek original the word «Θεός» (God) is used and not «θείος» (divine) though «θείος» is used in other places of New Testament (Acts 17, 29 and 2-nd Peter 1, 3). The Jehovah witnesses translate into English the last words of John 1, 1 this way: "The Word was a God" — i.e. one of the gods. This is clear twisting of the words in the Gospel. The absence of definite article in the Greek original doesn’t mean anything for the defying norm in this case usually is used with out an article.

42. St. Athanasius the Great. Works. TSL: 1902. Vol. 1, p. 275.

43. Synthagmum of Aphines. Σύνταγμα των θείων καί ίερων κανόνων κτλ. υπ о Г. Α. 'Ράλλη καί Μ. Ποτλή. Sympheropole: 1892, ρ. 252.

44. St. Ignatius Brianchaninov. «About heresy and schism»/ «Orthodox readings», 1992, 5-6, p. 5.

45. Kuhn, Luther, sa vie et son oeuvre, 1883, II, 94.

46. De Wette, Ш, 83, Op., ed. Eriang, LIII, 364, Febvre, 269.

47. The Church Times. 1972, August, the 4-th, p. 9.

48. Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, p.413.

49. Dissenters — from dissent in opinions.

50. Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, p.53.

51. 1 Tim. 5, 8

52. Ancient Patristic, M.: 1899, p. 240.

53. Mark Gabriel by 12 years of age knew Koran by heart and was the second best student of 6000 ones. Studying history he came across many dark spots in the history of Islam. Gabriel could not account for many contradictions in Koran. «I was never allowed to ask anything, — he recalls. — Nobody is ever allowed». His searching brought him to resignation and serving a term in prison. On being given freedom he left Islam and became a Christian.

54. John. 14, 6.

55. This is how St. Rev. Maximos the Greek narrates about Mohamed, the founder of Islam: «This is the most detestable flatterer and the forerunner of the most impious antichrist, who had nothing to do with either piety, or wisdom, neither had he any scientific education, which is clearly proved by the story which I heard from some worthy men who knew every detail concerning him. They narrated that he used to be a laborer of a rich Israely in Arabia and was engaged in a carrier’s trade thus being often hired to go to Palestine and Syria together with the merchants. When his master died, his former mistress, having fallen in love with him made him her lover and the heir to all her estates. Having received great fortune and wealth he began to wish to establish a new law and rule his Arabian tribe, which worshipped idols, this was to become a would be pious faith which would destract them from their idols. When he began to speculate on the subject the sourse of all evil, devil who always strives against the pious Christians delivered him an appropriate tool — a Jew from Jerusalem, Elias by name, who had been driven out of Jerusalem by his countrymen due to his heretic views. So the man, having been received by Mohamed taught him every heresy, taught him to know one God, and not the Holy Trinity, to circumcise, to wash off daily sins by water, not to eat pork, to take as many wives as one wishes so that only he can provide for them. As well devil brought to him another teacher — a monk from Constantinopole, who had been turned out of the monastery for his arian heresy and other blasphemous things. The latter reaffirmed him in everything having been taught to him before, and added to that to worship Jesus Christ not as God but as a Man exceeding all men in piety and all previous prophets in holiness, not as God or Son of God, but as a slave to God and God’s creation and not the Creator. He taught him to warship the Holy book of Testaments and regard it as having descended from Heaven and some other ideas of the kind. When his countrymen asked him to produce a miracle to prove his words, he proudly answered: "Moses and those who came after him and Christ were sent by God with different miracles and omens, and I was sent with a sword and I have a commandment to kill those who do not submit to my words". From this rude reply and from some of his other actions it is clear that this foul wasn’t sent by good God, Who doesn’t induce anything but by theomachistic and hateful devil for the eternal ruin of his followers». St. Maximos the Greek. Works, part 2. TSL, 1996, p.42-46.

56. St. Theodosius of Kiev and Pechers. «Golden spring». Ancient Russia of Χ-XIII cent. M.: 1990, p. 160.

57. Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, p.420.

58. Genesis 3, 5.

59. St. Theodosius of Kiev and Pechers. «Golden spring». Ancient Russia of X—XIII cent. M.: 1990, p. 160.

60. Acts 4, 11-12.

61. Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, p.489.

62. Math. 27, 25.

63. Rev. 2, 9.

64. St. Ignatius Brianchaninov. Letters to different persons. SPb.: 1896, part 1, 25.

65. «Rabbi Shimon, extracts from the zorar book». M.: 1994, p. 20.

66. St. John Chrysostom (the Goldenmouthed). Works. SPb.: 1898, vol. I, book 2, p. 655.