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Chapter 56: Let's Advise and Correct Each Other.
LET US THEN ALSO PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN INTO ANY SIN: that meekness and humility may be given to them, so that they may submit, not to us, but to the will of God. In this way, they will secure a fruitful and perfect remembrance from us, with sympathy for them, both in our prayers to God and our mention of them to the saints. Let us accept correction, beloved, for which no one should feel displeased. The exhortations by which we admonish one another are both good in themselves and highly profitable, for they tend to unite us to the will of God.
For thus says the holy Word: “The Lord has severely chastened me, yet has not given me over to death.” “For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.” “The righteous,” it says, “shall chasten me in mercy and reprove me; but let not the oil of sinners make my head fat.” And again, it says, “Blessed is the man whom the Lord reproves, and do not reject the warning of the Almighty. For He causes sorrow, and again restores to gladness; He wounds, and His hands make whole.
He shall deliver you in six troubles, yes, in the seventh no evil shall touch you. In famine He shall rescue you from death, and in war He shall free you from the power of the sword. From the scourge of the tongue will He hide you, and you shall not fear when evil comes. You shall laugh at the unrighteous and the wicked, and shall not be afraid of the beasts of the field. For the wild beasts shall be at peace with you: then you shall know that your house shall be in peace, and the habitation of your tabernacle shall not fail.
You shall also know that your descendants shall be great, and your children like the grass of the field. And you shall come to the grave like ripened corn, which is reaped in its season, or like a heap of the threshing floor, which is gathered together at the proper time.” You see, beloved, that protection is afforded to those who are chastened by the Lord; for since God is good, He corrects us so that we may be admonished by His holy chastisement.
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