In Dahl's dictionary
spiritually and morally immaculate, pure, perfect; everything that relates to the Divine, to the truths of faith, the subject of the highest veneration, our worship, spiritual, divine, heavenly. The Holy Spirit, the third hypostasis, expressing the Divine activity. | about man: immaculate and pleasing to God, the prototype of man. The saints are divided by the church into faces, categories: Holy Forefathers, ancient patriarchs, Old Testament righteous people: Adam, Noah, Abraham, etc. Prophets, all the Old Testament ones, who predicted the coming of Christ, and the last one is the Forerunner, the Baptist. The apostles, besides the 12, are seventy more; Equal to the Apostles: Mary Magdalene, Vladimir of Kiev, etc. Saints, Holy Fathers, shepherds and teachers, successors of the apostles and bishops; martyrs, passion-bearers and confessors killed for their faith; some of them are great martyrs, and if they were also shepherds, then they are holy martyrs; reverends, b. including desert dwellers, ascetics, renouncers of the world, carnivores, wanderers, including the verizhniks, stylites, holy fools and blessed ones; There are also holy martyrs. Fasters and fasters who tormented themselves with dry eating and hunger; merciful and unmercenary, giving away all their worldly acquisitions; recluses who imposed solitude on themselves; silent people who took a vow of silence. Others are given the title of miracle workers for the miracles they performed; God-bearers who carried God in their hearts; The righteous are generally saints of God. Others are honored: glorious martyrs, long-suffering ones, etc. For five days, five nights, I did not give peace to the saints! I was in fear and kept praying. Holy Father, honor to the black clergy and the pope. | Such a sodomy that you could even carry the saints, images, icons. Replaced the saints. Holy of Holies, most holy place, hiding place of shrines; in the Old Testament tabernacle and in the Jerusalem temple: the rear porch, where the ark of the covenant was, where we now have the altar. Holy man: just wipe him with a shroud and let him into heaven! Holy, holy, but unsophisticated, he became sanctimonious. The demon does not eat, does not drink, and the saint does not live (about fasting). You don't know which saint to pray to. Come to the saints! Naked is like a saint: he is not afraid of trouble. Poverty is a holy thing. A tired soul on crutches. Not everyone can sit under the saints. Not everyone who is big can sit under the saints. Honor and place - the Lord is above us - sit under the saints! He is already lying under the saints, dying, from the custom of washing and placing under the icons while still alive. He rose from under the saints and came to life from a serious illness. He lies so much that you take out the saints and go away yourself! | In general, everything that is cherished, dear, connected with truth and good is called holy. Holy Fatherland. This is my sacred duty. The Word is holy, indestructible. What is taken is holy, a blasphemous expression; What I got is mine, I won’t give it back. Holy corner, where the icon case and icons are. One word - Amen, and he does holy deeds! The holy truth is good, but it’s not suitable for people. On the holy day of vanity they sleep. The day is holy, and our affairs are asleep. I dressed up like on a holy day before mass (after mass, in many places the festive dress is taken off). For holy rain, good rye (eagle). What God gave is holy! The devils have overcome the holy place. What is done is sacred. Holy air, help us! talk Casp. sailors. Sedni Holy Wed. south zap. Psk. generally a holiday. | Novg. Holy water. The priests walk with the saint. Holy Evening, Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve. Holy chalk, app. sanctified, according to old times custom in Kreshensk. Christmas Eve; the peasants put crosses on their doors, and save the rest as medicine. Holy week, Easter, Easter. Holy tree, plant, genus of wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum. Our place is holy, and holy above (below) us! driving away evil spirits. Holy is God, or: how holy is God! god. Holy Easter, Holy Sunday, great day. If Dmitriev's day is snowy, then the Saint is snowy - and Dmitriev is naked, and the Saint is also snowy. The saint came and brought the grace of God. On Holy Day and on the Annunciation the sun plays at sunrise. Not forever and Holy. During Matins on Holy Day you can catch and see a brownie in the stable. From the Holy Day to the Ascension, people celebrate Christ. Holiness the state of a saint. Sanctity of the oath; - churches. | Star. shrine, holy objects or things revered by faith. To sanctify something, to honor or keep holy, to keep sacred, indestructible. Remember the Sabbath day, keep it holy, Ex. | To consecrate, dedicate, make holy, according to church rites. They went to Jordan to bless the water. New banners were consecrated. Sacred, holy provirs. They do not pray to an unsacred icon. Now the bishop has been consecrated, consecrated, ordained. No matter how holy it is, it still crawls into the swamp (said the Little Russian, dropping an Easter pig into the mud on the street). - to be honored as sacred, to be glorified by everyone as a shrine. Hallowed be Thy name! | To be sanctified or to be holy. Sacred act. according to verb. Saint m. old. holy, righteous man, more holy than God! hello monk. | A saint, a bigot, a hypocrite. Christmas time m. pl. time from Christmas to Epiphany. Those who put on a face for Christmastide bathe in the Jordan. They glorify Christ, walk with nativity scenes, and with a star, tell fortunes, etc. They tell fortunes about winter, using the liver and spleen. On Christmastide, bent work is not worked (for example, hoops, runners), otherwise there will be no offspring of livestock. Dark Christmastide - dairy cows; light Christmastide-sock chickens. If you weave bast shoes for Christmas, you will be born crooked, but if you sew, you will be born blind. Christmastide south zap. celebrate, do not work, honoring the holiday. -vanier, action according to verb. Christmas games, songs. Christmastide, celebrate Christmastide. | Yuletide, noun. m. pl. Okrutny, dressed up, who, according to the Yuletide custom, go from house to house, Yuletide m. -nitsa. Sanctuary Wed. Holy place; house, building dedicated to a holy cause: temple, church. | A sanctuary of sciences, a higher scientific or educational institution. Sanctuary, related to this. Saint m. hierarch, bishop, bishop. -telev, which is his personally; -telsky, relating to him. - title, rank, title; -to act, to be a saint. Christmastide m. old. holy, great holiday, holy day. Give the sacrament on Christmastide, on Christmastide. I only wear this dress on Holy Day until lunch! I take care of it. Holy, collect. lower saints, gods, icons, images, home shrines. | Arch. Vyat. Christmas time Svyatina Sib. consecration of a temple, church. To be at the shrine. Shrine holiness, what is sacred to whom, what we worship, what we honor indestructibly. Take care of your conscience as if it were a sacred object. The priest came with the shrine, with the cross and the gospel. Sacred, relating to a shrine. Saints, church book; months, with full meaning for every day of remembrance of the saints; Paschalia, troparia and kontakia, selected canons and prayers. | Twelve icons depicting saints, revered daily; These are personal calendars, in person. He doesn’t look at the calendar; his soul says holidays to him. Without looking at the calendar, the bell rang (yes, the big bell)! Svyatik Vlad. holy spring, spring, well. Drink the Saint's water">drink it. A chapel is placed above the saint. Our bear comes to drink during the holy day. Saint vol. old saint or saint, righteous. | Nowadays he is a hypocrite, a hypocrite, a saint, an empty saint, a performer of external rituals for appearances, but internally a bad, deceitful, feigned person. | Saint, eagle. unclean, a demon who appears on Christmastide to those who dress up, putting a face on themselves. Holy, holy, hypocritical. To become sanctimonious, to live in the guise of holiness, to be a hypocrite, to be a hypocrite, to be a hypocrite. Holiness, holiness and holiness cf. hypocrisy, empty holiness, feigned, crafty worship of God. Saint Arch. monk, monk; or hermit, hermit. Svyatoyansk potion, zap. plant Hypericum perforatum. His Holiness, procession, honor of the Orthodox patriarchs and the synod. Sacred, holy; | sanctified; | Treasured">cherished, indestructible. Holy Scripture. Word of God, Old and New. Covenant. Sacred utensils, church. Priest, priest, presbyter, priest, ordained altar server who performs the holy. secrets. -nobody's, -chesky, relating to him. -nichestvo cf. rank, title, condition; priesthood, same; | generally clergy. The priesthood greeted the king with crosses and banners. The sanctuary of Tver. sanctification, e.g. churches. To be a priest, to be a priest; priesthood, the same; | actually act”> perform priesthood. Most Holy, procession, of old, honor of metropolitans. The adverbs holy and sacred, when combined with other words, form complex words, b. Particularly understandable. The people of Murom are holy, expelled Bishop St. Basil in the 13th century. Holy monks. Monastic residence. -life husband. -a transparent icon. -merchment cf. simony, purchase of holy orders. -a merchant sinner, or a holy merchant. Holy image. -hater of the m. -nitsa, champion of the holy, -apostate, -nick, opponent of everything holy and everything sacred. Holy anointed, -nik, Orthodox sovereign. Holy One, of blessed memory. Sacrilege vol. -tats m. -titsa w. a thief of sacred and ecclesiastical things, a church thief or thief. Sacrilege, -treasonable, related to church theft, theft, theft, predation. | * Blasphemous, abusive, encroaching on something sacred, blasphemous. -stvo wed. this is a crime. The laws punish sacrilege more severely than simple theft. -howl, vandalize and rob temples, shrines, churches. wealth; | swear at them, blaspheme. Blasphemy, -blasphemy, various actions of a blasphemer, -nitsa, one who -blasphemes, or -chane, censure or denial of the sacred, and reproach, dishonor, blasphemy. Hieroarchamandrite, archimandrite rector of the monastery, blessed, blessed St. St. Church Holy robber, blaspheme. Holy Deacon's railway old the priesthood (once permitted) of the deacon, now prohibited. -property, priesthood. -act, celebrate the liturgy and perform the sacraments, or generally sacred, spiritual services, -suffer. - worship, - action, - action, celebration of the liturgy, the Divine service itself, according to the rules. -doer, -actor, -voyer, -doer, performer of sacred services. -effective, related to this. priest, hieromonk; -monasticism, rank and condition. -monastic, related to this. -confessor, clergyman who suffered torment for his faith. Priest, priest, priest. -martyr, priest, suffered for the faith. -martyrdom, this state. -chesky crown. -boss, -boss Wed. hierarchy, church authority. -nick or hierarch. - robe, clothing of church ministers, according to the charter. Holy unction, anointing with holy oil. - the primate, every head and senior of the priests. -preacher, speaker of spiritual speeches, preacher of the word, -archpriest, archpriest. - dear, born into a spiritual rank. -a minister placed in the rank, priest and deacon; -lsky, relating to them, -zhenie, the performance of sacred service. Church singing. A clergyman who stands up for the truths of the faith. -sufferer, -martyr. -suffering, related to him, or to -honor. -secret, to the sacred. related to secrets; | having received the revelation of these mysteries. - student, follower - teacher, mentor of faith.
Scripture and the Church
There is, at first glance, some kind of disagreement between the concept of holiness in the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, and the tradition of the Church. The Apostle Paul, for example, calls all Christians saints, although in terms of their moral level there were also people far from holiness (cf. 1 Cor. 6:1-2). On the contrary, from the very beginning of the existence of the Church and in all subsequent times, Christians who are distinguished by special spiritual purity and zeal for Christian life, feats of prayer and love, martyrdom for Christ, etc. are predominantly called saints.
However, both of these approaches do not mean a difference in the understanding of holiness, but only an assessment of the same phenomenon at different levels. The New Testament use of the term comes from what believers are called to be, having made a promise to God of a good conscience (1 Peter 3:21) and having received the gift of the grace of Baptism, although at the moment they are still carnal, that is, sinful and imperfect. The church tradition logically completes the New Testament understanding, crowning with a halo of glory those Christians who fulfilled this calling with their righteous lives. That is, both of these traditions talk about the same thing - about the special participation of a Christian in the Spirit of God, and determine the very possibility of such participation by the degree of zeal of the believer in spiritual life. “Not everyone who says to Me: Lord! God! will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven… depart from me, you workers of iniquity” (Matthew 7:21–27). “The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and those who use force take it by force” (Matthew 11:12).
By being called to a different, new life in Christ, the Apostle calls all Christians saints, and with this name he emphasizes the opportunity that has opened up for all believers to become a new creation (Gal. 6:15). From the very beginning of its existence, the Church calls those who have become different in relation to the world, who have acquired the Holy Spirit and demonstrated His power in our world, saints.
In Ozhegov's dictionary
HOLY, oh, oh; holy, holy, holy. 1. In religious concepts: possessing divine grace. S. elder. C. source. Holy water (blessed). 2. Imbued with high feelings, sublime, ideal (high). Holy love for the Motherland. 3. True, majestic and exceptional in importance (high). Holy cause. Sacred duty. 4. saint, m. In Christianity and some other religions: a person who dedicated his life to the church and religion, and after death was recognized as a model of righteous life and a bearer of miraculous power. Cult of saints. Canonized as a saint. * Holy truth - about something. indisputable, undeniable. Holy of holies (high) - something most dear, hidden [original. place in the Jerusalem Temple, where the commandments of Moses were kept]. Holy places are places associated with ideas about divine acts, miracles, and the lives of holy saints. Pilgrimage to holy places. At least take away the saints (colloquial) - about unimaginable noise and disorder. A holy place is never empty (colloquial irony) - there will always be someone who will occupy something. vacant place, position. Holy holy holy! (obsolete colloquial) - a spell that protects oneself from something. dangerous, scary. How holy God is (obsolete colloquial) - deity. || and. holy, -by (to 4 meanings). ||noun holiness, -i, f. (to 1, 2 and 3 values).
God and man
The fact of the originality and universality of religion in the history of mankind testifies not only to the theoretical satisfaction of the idea of God as the unconditional Source of all life and all good, but also to the deep correspondence of religion to human nature, to its comprehensive justification in historical, social and individual experience.
The essence of religion is usually, and rightly, seen in the special unity of man with God, the human spirit with the Spirit of God. Moreover, each religion indicates its own path and its own means to achieve this goal. However, the postulate of general religious consciousness about the need for spiritual unity of man with God in order to achieve eternal life always remains unshakable. This idea runs like a red thread through all the religions of the world, embodied in various myths, legends, dogmas and emphasizing on different levels and from different sides the unconditional significance and primacy of the spiritual principle in a person’s life, in his acquisition of its meaning.
God, having only partially revealed Himself in the Old Testament, appeared in a completeness that was extremely accessible to man in God the Word incarnate, and the possibility of unity with Him became especially clear and tangible thanks to the Church He created. The Church is the unity in the Holy Spirit of all rational creatures following the will of God and thus entering into the Theanthropic Organism of Christ - His Body (Eph. 1:23). Therefore, the Church is a society of saints. However, membership in it is conditioned not by the simple fact of the believer’s acceptance of Baptism, the Eucharist and other sacraments, but also by his special participation in the Holy Spirit. So a member of the Church who is indisputable by all external indicators may not be in it if he does not satisfy the second condition. This thought may seem strange: didn’t a Christian partake of the Holy Spirit in the sacraments? And if so, what other kind of communion can we talk about? This question is of fundamental importance for understanding holiness in Orthodoxy.
In Efremova's dictionary
Accent: holy
- m. One who spent his life in the service of God and after death is recognized by the Christian Church as the patron saint of believers.
- Full of holiness; divine.
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- trans. Highly moral, impeccable in life, behavior (about a person).
- Noble, sublime.
Holiness
Priest Pavel Florensky gives a broad analysis of the concept of holiness in his “Pillar...”. Here are some of his thoughts.
“When we talk about the holy Font, about the holy Chrism, about the Holy Gifts, about holy Penance, about holy Marriage, about holy Oil... and so on, and so on, and finally about the Priesthood, which word already includes the root “ holy,” then we first of all understand the otherworldliness of all these Sacraments. They are in the world, but not of the world... And this is precisely the first, negative facet of the concept of holiness. And therefore, when, following the Sacraments, we call many other things holy, we mean precisely the specialness, the cut-off from the world, from the everyday, from the everyday, from the ordinary - that which we call holy... Therefore, when God in the Old Testament is called Holy, then this means that we are talking about His transcendence, about His transcendence to the world...
And in the New Testament, when many times in his epistles the Apostle Paul calls the Christians of his day saints, this means in his mouth, first of all, that Christians are singled out from all humanity...
Undoubtedly, in the concept of holiness, following its negative side, a positive side is thought of, revealing in the saint the reality of another world...
The concept of holiness has a lower pole and an upper pole, and in our consciousness it constantly moves between these poles, ascending upward and descending back... And this staircase, traversed from bottom to top, is thought of as a path of negation of the world... But it can also be considered as traversable in the opposite direction. And then it will be thought of as a way of establishing world reality through the sanctification of this latter.”
Thus, according to Father Paul, holiness is, firstly, alienation from the world of sin, its denial. Secondly, it has a specific positive content, because the nature of holiness is Divine, it is ontologically established in God. At the same time, holiness, he emphasizes, is not moral perfection, although it is inextricably linked with it, but “co-essence with otherworldly energies.” Finally, holiness is not only the denial, the absence of all evil, and not only the appearance of another world, the Divine, but also the unshakable affirmation of “world reality through the sanctification of this latter.”
This third side of holiness says that it is a power that transforms not only man, but the world as a whole so that God will be all in all (1 Cor. 15:28). Ultimately, all creation must become different (And I saw a new heaven and a new earth - Rev. 21:1) and manifest God. But in this process, only man can play an active role on the part of creation, therefore he is entrusted with full responsibility for the creation (Rom. 8:19–21). And here the significance of the saints, who in the conditions of earthly existence became the firstfruits (Rom. 11:16) of the future general and complete sanctification, is revealed with particular force.
Saints are, first of all, other people, different from those who live according to the elements of this world, and not according to Christ (Col. 2:8). Others because they fight and, with God’s help, overcome “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1 John 2:16), all that enslaves the people of this world. In this separation of the saints from the world of threefold lust, from the atmosphere of sin, one can see one of the fundamental characteristics of holiness and the unity of the original apostolic and church-traditional understanding of it.
In Vasmer Max's dictionary
holy holy, holy, holy, ukr. holy, blr. saints, other Russian holy, old-glory light ἅγιος, ἱερός, Bulgarian. light, light, light (Mladenov 571), Serbo-Croatian. light, light, light, sloven. svẹ̑t, svẹ́ta, female, Czech. svatý, slvts. svätý, Polish święty, v.-luzh. swjaty, n.-luzh. swěty, lab. sjǫte. Praslav. *svętъ cognate lit. šveñtas, Old Prussian. swenta - in local nn., avest. spǝnta- “holy”, sраnаh- “holiness”, Old Indian. Ved. c̨vāntás “prosperous”, here also ltsh. svinêt, svinu “celebrate” (Trautman, ВSW 311; M.–E. 3, 1156, 1160; Uhlenbeck, Aind. Wb. 322; Rozvadovsky, RO I, 102). Ltsh. svę̀ts “holy, pious” borrowed. from glory (M.–E. 3, 1156). Uncertain relationship with Goth. hunsl Wed R. “victim” (Zupica, GG, 187; Thorp 93; Uhlenbeck, ibid.; RVV 30, 293).
What's the main thing about them?
Humility is the only virtue that allows a person to remain in the so-called non-fallen state. This is especially convincing in the story of primordial man, who possessed all the gifts of God (Gen. 1:31), but did not have an experienced knowledge of his non-originality, his insignificance without God, that is, he did not have experienced humility and therefore so easily imagined himself. Experienced humility occurs in a person under the condition of forcing himself to fulfill the commandments of the Gospel and repentance. As Rev. says. Simeon the New Theologian: “Careful fulfillment of the commandments of Christ teaches a person his weaknesses.” The knowledge of one’s powerlessness to become spiritually and morally sound and holy without God’s help creates a solid psychological basis for the unshakable acceptance of God as the source of life and all good. Experienced humility excludes the possibility of a new proud dream of becoming “like God” (Gen. 3:5) and a new fall.
In essence, the true rebirth of a Christian begins only when, in the fight against sin, he sees the full depth of the damage of his nature, the fundamental inability without God to heal from passions and achieve the sought-after holiness. Such self-knowledge reveals to a person the One who wants and can save him from a state of destruction, reveals Christ to him. This is precisely what explains the exceptional importance attached to humility by all the saints.
Rev. Macarius of Egypt says: “Great height is humility. Both honor and dignity are humility.” St. John Chrysostom calls humility the main virtue, and St. Barsanuphius the Great teaches that “humility has primacy among the virtues.” Rev. Simeon the New Theologian states: “Although there are many types of His influences, many signs of His power, the first and most necessary is humility, since it is the beginning and the foundation.” Humility acquired by correct Christian life is, in fact, a new property, unknown to the primordial Adam, and it is the only solid foundation for the unfallen state of man, his true holiness.
In the dictionary D.N. Ushakova
HOLY (holy church, obsolete), holy, holy; holy, holy, holy. 1. In religious ideas - possessing absolute perfection and purity, divine (rel.). Holy Spirit. Holy Church. 2. In the same ideas - righteous, blameless, corresponding to the religious ideal (rel.). Holy man. “In his old age, one gray-haired monk was saved by holy living and prayers.” Pushkin. 3. in meaning noun holy, holy, male, holy, holy, female In the Christian cult, a person who spent his life defending the interests of the church and religion and after death was recognized as an indisputable example of Christian life and the patron of believers (church). Cult of saints. Canonization. “He, according to his grandmother, is naked, like a Turkish saint.” Leskov. “Uncle Peter was also literate and very well-read from the scriptures; they always argued with grandfather about which of the saints was holier than which.” M. Gorky. 4. In the Christian cult - adj., meaning. associated with such a person (church). “Punish, holy saint, Captain Furrow.” Pushkin. “Transfer the holy relics and place them in the cathedral.” Pushkin. 5. in meaning noun saints, saints, units saint, saint, male Icons with images of such people (rel. obsolete). “Under the saints there is an oak table.” Pushkin. “Under the saints in the corner she timidly hid.” Zhukovsky. 6. In the Christian cult - endowed with divine grace, who is the source of divine power (church). Holy water. Holy gifts (communion). 7. transfer Imbued with something lofty, sublime, ideal (poetic, obsolete). “His holy lyre is silent.” Pushkin. “Keep the holy purity of innocence and proud modesty.” Pushkin. “With eternal love, holy, I remember my native country.” I. Kozlov. “Let the holy truth burn as our guiding star.” Pleshcheev. “There the holy female soul fades away like a slave.” Nekrasov. “Love... holy excitement!” Goncharov. | Deeply revered, dear, cherished, beloved (bookish trade). “Oh, holy homeland, what heart does not tremble, blessing you?” Zhukovsky. “The more often the lyceum celebrates its saint, simply, as they say, nothing is sacred.” Saltykov-Shchedrin. “Ah, uncle, for me there was nothing on earth holier than love.” Goncharov. | True, great, majestic in its tasks, exceptional in importance (book. trade). “...Communists, act together with non-party workers, organize a friendly bloc for a common and holy cause, for the election of the highest bodies of your native, Soviet government.” Molotov. Defense of the socialist fatherland is the sacred duty of the working people. Holy duty. “He fell a hero... he rushed into the battle - and, falling, he accomplished a great, holy deed.” Pushkin. | Absolutely necessary, very important (colloquial). “Service in friendship is a sacred thing.” Krylov. “Agreement is a sacred thing; it incites the lawyer, keeps him cheerful, obliges him to be inventive.” Saltykov-Shchedrin. | Unshakable, unbreakable. “...It is necessary to observe sacredly (adv.) the laws and regulations of the Soviet government...” Lenin. “Tatiana’s letter is in front of me; I sacredly (adv.) take care of him.” Pushkin. “I sacredly (adv.) treasure this ring given to me by you.” Languages. “There would be a book’s worth of speeches about this holy truth.” Krylov. “What is taken is holy.” (last) “Why are other people’s opinions only sacred?” Griboyedov. • As God is holy (colloquial obsolete) - transl. definitely, anyway. “I’ll sell my property like God is holy and squander it, and I won’t leave you half a dime.” Pushkin. Holy Week or Holy (colloquial, obsolete, church) is the Easter holiday among Christians. Holy simplicity! - see simplicity" title='what is simplicity, the meaning of the word simplicity in Ushakov's dictionary'>simplicity. Holy Rus' (popular poet, rhetorician) is the name of Rus', Russia. “Holy Rus'! fatherland! I am yours." Pushkin. “If Dobrynya wouldn’t have traveled around Holy Rus'.” Bylina. Holy of holies uncl., female (book. rhetorician) - something especially dear, treasured, inaccessible to the uninitiated. "It is difficult to penetrate man's sanctum sanctorum." Leskov. (·the original part of the Jerusalem temple, which only the high priest could enter.) Holy father or ruler (church) - a respectful address to a minister of worship. - And he ran away, Father Superior? - He ran away, holy lord. “This is already the third day.” Pushkin. Holy spirit - see spirit. At least take the saints (out) (colloquial) - pogov. about completely indecent, ugly behavior (cf. saint in 5 meaning). “A smart person is either a drunkard, or he’ll make such a face that you can even take away the saints.” Gogol.
Stages of life
If the old (Eph. 4:22) nature was inherited by the descendants of Adam in the natural order, then birth from the Second Adam (1 Cor. 15:47) and communion with the Holy Spirit occurs through a conscious-volitional process of personal activity, which has two fundamentally different stages.
The first is when a believer is spiritually born in the sacrament of Baptism, receiving the seed (Matthew 13:3-23) of the New Adam and thereby becoming a member of His Body - the Church. Rev. Simeon the New Theologian says: “...he who believes in the Son of God... repents... of his previous sins and is cleansed of them in the sacrament of Baptism. Then God the Word enters the baptized person, as into the womb of the Ever-Virgin, and remains in him as a seed.” But by Baptism, a person does not “automatically” transform from the “old man” (Eph. 4:22) into the “new man” (Eph. 4:24) . Cleansing himself from all his sins and thereby becoming like the primordial Adam, the believer in Baptism, nevertheless, retains, as the Rev. puts it. Maximus the Confessor, passion, corruption and mortality, inherited by him from his sinful forefathers, a complacent attitude towards sin remains in him.
Therefore, the holiness to which a person is called is not yet achieved through the sacrament of Baptism. This sacrament provides only its beginning, and not its completion; man is given only the seed, but not the tree itself, which bears the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
The second step is that correct (righteous) spiritual life, thanks to which the believer grows into a perfect man, to the measure of the full stature of Christ (Eph. 4:13) and becomes capable of receiving special sanctification by the Holy Spirit. For the seed of Baptism among wicked and lazy Christians (Matt. 25:26) remains ungerminated and therefore barren (John 12:24), but when it lands on good soil, it sprouts and bears the corresponding fruit. This fruit (and not the seed) means the sought-after communion with the Holy Spirit - holiness. The parable of the leaven, which the woman took and put into three measures of flour until it was all leavened (Matthew 13:33), clearly expresses the nature of this mysterious change in man and his communion with the Holy Spirit in the Church and the real meaning of the sacraments in this process. Just as leaven put into dough exerts its effect gradually and under very specific conditions, so the “leaven” of Baptism “leaves” a carnal man into a spiritual one (1 Cor. 3:1-3), into “new dough” (1 Cor. 5: 7) not instantly, not magically, but in time, with the corresponding spiritual and moral change indicated in the Gospel. Thus, it is up to the Christian, who has received the talent of justification freely (Rom. 3:24), to destroy it in the land of his heart (Matt. 25:18) or to increase it.
The latter means the special communion with the Holy Spirit of the baptized person. And this is one of the most important principles of the Orthodox understanding of spiritual life, Christian perfection, and holiness. It was expressed simply and briefly by Rev. Simeon the New Theologian: “All his (a Christian’s – A.O.) efforts and all his feats must be directed toward acquiring the Holy Spirit, for this is what spiritual law and goodness consist of.” Rev. spoke about the same thing in one of his conversations. Seraphim of Sarov: “The goal of Christian life is to acquire the Spirit of God, and this is the goal of the life of every Christian who lives spiritually.”
So, it turns out that a believer who has received the fullness of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the sacraments also requires His special “acquisition,” which is holiness.
In the Dictionary of Synonyms
immaculate, blameless, righteous; divine, sacred; great martyr, most important, wonderworker, sinless, revered, angel of meekness, lamb, saint, exalted, white, tall, strong, true, bodhisattva, noble, lamb of God, inseparable, saint, majestic, pious, wali, righteous, ideal, sanctified , holy man, sacred, blessed, martyr, indestructible, pious, reverend, lamb, angel in the flesh, angel, indissoluble, infallible, immaculate
In the dictionary Complete accentuated paradigm according to A. A. Zaliznya
1 . holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy oh, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holier, more holy, holy, dedicate 2 . holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy
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