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These things says the Apostle Paul to the Hebrews, that is, to convert to Christianity from the Jewish people, and probably to those who lived in Judea. Therefore, one can speculate that the mentors, whom he had in mind, it is the essence of the Apostle James, the brother of John, and James, the brother of the Lord. The first of these, died by the sword, raised ebgż the Church ebgż of Jerusalem by Herod, and the second suffered from Jewish high priest Annas and his throng. Naturally, the children of the Church with sorrow remembered as disastrous loss of so many great mentors. These things, then corrects and mood elevates the Apostle, teaching recall ebgż the demise of the pious mentors not with sadness, but with reverence, not to lament, but to follow: Remember them yours, others like glagolasha you the word of God to those whom vzirayusche end of the residence, and imitate their faith .
Inasmuch as the apostle says that the current supplied to them was from the Holy Spirit, the obedient children of the Church teachings they received as laws and their word was converted to the cause. Hence used to solemnly remember those who go down to the God of the Christian mentors. And when it is not taught, they are short, they encouraged them by example. Other mentors brightened word of wisdom, others - in other spiritual gifts for the benefit of the Church. Recalls now mentor - St. Nicholas marked himself primarily a strong faith and zeal for the faith. Remember it so well to learn, though, and most of all to emulate his zeal for the faith. Jealousy is a spiritual fire. How wisdom shines in the mind as love warms the heart, so jealousy, ebgż the complex action of add two forces, which ignites the whole being, which it is. She is in it strenuous activity that whatever it may submit, powerful forward to his goal - the ability to cleanse cleans, mixed parts, impure ebgż and corruptible destroys antagonistic reflects scatter. So the jealousy of God himself portrays the Apostle when he calls her zeal fire poyasti hotyaschago ebgż soprotivnyya (Hebrews 10: 27). By this way of jealousy man in relation to faith and have that quality of mind in which a man with a lively and ardent desire of activity ebgż seeks the true faith, which he knew and loved, store, distribute, ebgż remove primesheniya ebgż superstition, and temptations, and its enemies or soften and turn, or to bring to an inability to harm her. The zeal of faith is alchba and thirst for righteousness by faith, which finds faith pokoliku ebgż right, potoliku ebgż saturated and bliss, and when or does not find true faith, or sees it weakens the negligence of false Christians hesitate strife, threatened calamity, then eaten (John 2:17) of the zealot. Solomon, portraying this very fiery, or has eaten, because of jealousy, said: cruelty, for through hell, jealousy (Pesn.8 6). Hell likens her, not because she wanted someone cast down to hell, for this may not be true of jealousy, inasmuch as a part of her is love, but either because she saw beloved ebgż creations of God on the way to hell and with the liveliest compassion imagining the destruction, ebgż they would, in itself feels them hell, or because jealousy, with an excess of dissolved love, is ready to share even a hellish fate of those on whom is jealous, in order to facilitate this very fate for them and their own risk their iskhitit from danger. For example, the Apostle Paul, jealous zeal for Israel of God, was prompted to say that he prayed Bykh Xia byti himself excommunicated from Christ for his brethren (Romans 9: 3), that is, that they should believe in Christ. By this and similar examples, some, perhaps, think that Sia holy zeal is not shared, and the everlasting duty, but the gift of infused grace just for some special cases where the extraordinary dangers of faith require extraordinary effort to preserve ebgż it and approval. Suspicious of these things ebgż do not touch the image of the arguments we have those who have grown cold in their faith to such an extent that they perform and the common, recognized by all its obligations. How to search zeal for the faith of those who have faith in itself and works can not find? Is not there such that honor the faith, willing and use some effort to fulfill its obligations pokoliku know them, but have no basis in positions of any kind list