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| Imprint | |
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| Publisher | |
| Author Name | Tikhon of Zadonsk |
| Translator | Seraphim F. Englehardt |
| Language | English |
| Book Dimensions | 0 |
| Format Detail | eBook |
| Publication Date | 20230314 |
Description
As a merchant gathers various goods from different countries and carries them home and stores them up, so the Christian may gather edifying thoughts and lay them up in the storeroom of his heart, and enrich his soul with them.
Drawing upon numerous examples from daily life and human relationships, St Tikhon weaves together wisdom on how to live a life pleasing to God. His words are frequently embellished by scripture and together these call the reader to repentance and a fuller embrace of godly living. In a world that typically only values material goods his writing constantly reminds the reader of that which is of true value — the knowledge and love of God.
The reader also finds encouragement in the struggle to overcome sin and to acquire virtue which is the fundamental battle of the Christian as the war is waged against the passions. It is a fight worth the effort. St Tikhon’s message is clear: True riches are not of this world, but of the age to come. These riches both can and should be acquired now. As the reader progresses deeper into this work his soul will find refreshment, purpose and meaning for his life.
Contents
Foreword
1Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The World
2Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Sun
3Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Father and Children
4Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Master and Servant
5         A King and His Honored Subject—a Criminal
6Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Captives and Their Liberator
7Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Master and the Servant Whom He Purchased
8Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Captive and His Liberator
9Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Joyous News for Criminals
10Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The King Who out of Compassion Visits People Living in Poverty
11Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Death Penalty for a Condemned Man
12Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A King, Awaited by Citizens, His Arrival in the City, and His Reception by the Citizens
13Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Low-ranking Person Adopted by a High-ranking Person
14Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Benefactor and the Ungrateful Man Who Receives a Benefaction from Him
15Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A King and His Subject Who Asks a Favor of Him
16Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Vine and the Branches
17Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Head and Body
18Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Members of the Body among Themselves
19Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Sheep
20Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Goats
21Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Shepherd and Flock
22Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Bridegroom and Bride
23Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Warfare
24Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Wayfarer
25Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Wayfarer and a Guide
26Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Stranger or Wanderer
27Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Citizen
28Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Dinner or Supper
29Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Curtain or Veil
30Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Deaf Man
31Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Seed
32Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Sowing and Harvesting
33Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Right Hand
34Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Giving King and the Thief of His Gift
35Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Turn Back! Do Not Go That Way!
36       Don’t Touch That! It’s Poison!
37Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Weeping
38Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Debt
39Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Master Who Is Calling a Servant
40Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Servants Awaiting Their Master
41Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Man Summoned to Court
42Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Person Covered with Wounds
43Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Blind Man Restrained
44Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Tall Tree in the Midst of Short Trees
45Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Sensible Head
46Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Desire
47Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Happiness
48Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Burning Candle
49Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Sword Hanging over a Head
50Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Net
51Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Drunkenness
52Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Mirror
53Â Â Â Â Â Â Â One Emerging from Darkness, Prison, Captivity, and the Like
54Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Shame
55Â Â Â Â Â Â Â I Cannot Escape Anywhere from You
56Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Master Is Here
57Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A King Who Enters a City or House
58Â Â Â Â Â Â Woe
59Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Good Tree
60Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Slime or Mud on the Bottom of a Spring
61Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Person Who Has Fallen among Robbers and Been Injured by Them
62Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Hospital or Infirmary
63Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Poison, Hidden in a Person
64Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Warfare
65Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Calling
66Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Your Father Has Been Waiting for You a Long Time. Do Not Tarry!
67Â Â Â Â Â Â Â And We Will Go There
68Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Spring
69Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Get Up!
70Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Livestock
71Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Turning
72Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Imitation
73Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Safe Path
74Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Mirror
75Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Plague
76Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Following Like Cattle
77Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Lamp
78Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Blind Man and a Sighted Man Accompanying Him
79Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Subject Who Violates the Law in the Presence of His King
80Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Servant Offended in the Presence of His Master
81Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Royal Mercy Promised to Transgressors, and Announced, and Shown to Those Who Turn Themselves Around
82Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tares among the Wheat
83Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Why Are You Here?
84Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Lie
85Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Hen
86Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Poultice
87Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Where Are You Going? There Will Be Misfortune for You There
88Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Why Have You Stopped?
89Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Fasting
90Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Renunciation of Christ
91Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Servant Who Knows, and One Who Does Not Know, the Will of His Master
92Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Take Stock of Yourself!
93Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Shield
94Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Peace
95Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Straight and a Crooked Tree
96Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Water Flows from High Mountains to Low-Lying Areas
97Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Water Flowing By
98Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Now You Are Freed from All Misfortunes
99Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A Small Sapling
100Â Â Â Â Â Repose
101Â Â Â Â Â A Bridle
102Â Â Â Â Â Follow Me
103Â Â Â Â Â Study
104Â Â Â Â Â The Alphabet
105Â Â Â Â Â Teacher and Pupils
106Â Â Â Â Â I Am Greatly in Your Debt
107Â Â Â Â Â The Memory of an Absent Benefactor
108Â Â Â Â Â He Did His Work and Left
109Â Â Â Â Â Citizens Awaiting Their King in Their City
110Â Â Â Â Â One Will Be Taken and the Other Will Be Left
111Â Â Â Â Â An Oath
112Â Â Â Â Â A Bathhouse
113Â Â Â Â Â A Maiden Betrothed to a Man
114Â Â Â Â Â A Ship
115Â Â Â Â Â Whose Are You?
116Â Â Â Â Â They Are in Concert
117Â Â Â Â Â A King Summons His Subject to Him by an Edict
118Â Â Â Â Â I Will Come Tomorrow
119Â Â Â Â Â A Gardener Cuts Down a Barren Tree
120Â Â Â Â Â Snares Placed on the Path
121Â Â Â Â Â A Great Thing
122Â Â Â Â Â Do Not Be Afraid, I Am with You
123Â Â Â Â Â A Belch
124Â Â Â Â Â A Boat or Vessel on a River
125Â Â Â Â Â The Knowledge of Misfortune or Trouble Induces Us to Seek Deliverance
126Â Â Â Â Â A Pauper
127Â Â Â Â Â A Treasure
128Â Â Â Â Â Witnesses
129Â Â Â Â Â Whom Should I Love, If Not Him?
130Â Â Â Â Â A Full and an Empty Vessel
131Â Â Â Â Â Whoever Loves Something Seeks after It
132Â Â Â Â Â A Perceived Good Is Sought For
133Â Â Â Â Â Everything Finds Repose in Its Own Place
134Â Â Â Â Â A Migrant
135Â Â Â Â Â Servants Sent by the Master to Invite Guests to Dinner
136Â Â Â Â Â A Guard
137Â Â Â Â Â Do Not Touch It; You Cannot Lift It
138Â Â Â Â Â Everyone Avoids a Perceived Evil
139Â Â Â Â Â Little Children
140Â Â Â Â Â Those Who Eat and Drink at Table, and Others Who Are Hungry, but Not Allowed There for Their Own Fault
141     Those Who Enter the King’s Bridal Chamber
142Â Â Â Â Â Light and Darkness
143Â Â Â Â Â I Am Ashamed to Look at You
144Â Â Â Â Â Internecine Strife
145Â Â Â Â Â A Bee That Wounds with Its Sting
146Â Â Â Â Â A Wounded Man Is Wounded Again
147Â Â Â Â Â A Mirror Shows the Smudges on a Face
148     How Could I Forget Him!                                                                                    Â
149Â Â Â Â Â We Shall Be Safe There
150Â Â Â Â Â A Painting Is Spoiled
151Â Â Â Â Â I Am Not Your Brother
152Â Â Â Â Â The Path
153Â Â Â Â Â The Belly
154Â Â Â Â Â A Man Falls into a Pit That He Himself Has Dug
155Â Â Â Â Â Being Pleasing
156Â Â Â Â Â A Swindler
157Â Â Â Â Â One Event Brings a Similar One to Mind
Notes
Scripture Index
