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In olden times men were instructed to offer in the temple the firstfruits of the threshing-floor and the winepress (cf. Num. 18:12). Likewise we ought now to offer God self-control and truth as the firstfruits of ascetic practice, and love and prayer as the firstfruits of the virtue of contemplation. Through the first we repulse the assaults of mindless desire and anger; through the second we vanquish empty thoughts and the snares into which they lead us. Ilias the Presbyter A Gnomic Anthology Part IV
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:30:00 +0000

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