Symeon the New Theologian

Medieval · AD 800–1500

61 passages across 19 books of the Bible · Who was this?

On 1 Peter

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  1. 1 Peter 5:1
    How will you be a partaker of Christ’s glory if you refuse to be a partaker of his shameful death? It is in vain that you have left the world behind if you are unwilling to take up your cross, as he commanded you to.

    DISCOURSES 27.11

  2. 1 Peter 5:4
    Can death have any power over the souls which have been sealed by the grace of the Holy Spirit and the blood of Christ? Dare the spiritual wolf look straight at the seal of Christ the good shepherd, which he places on his own sheep? By no means, faithful brothers of godly mind!

    DISCOURSES 2.5

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