Homilies on the Orthodox Faith · Lecture 027
The Sins of the Fall (Part 1)
A lecture by Nikolaos Sotiropoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Nikolaos Sotiropoulos, in the first of two lectures on the sins of the tongue, presents Great Lent as the Church's most spiritual season and teaches, from the Apostle James, that mastery of speech is a mark of perfection. He begins with loquacity and idle talk, which betray pride and squander the short time given for repentance, and holds up the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the prayer of Saint Ephraim as models of few words filled with meaning. He condemns boastful speech, setting it against the humility of Job, Abraham, Apostle Paul, the Publican, and the Good Thief, and warns against flattery, insolence, self-justifying excuses, obscene language, and corrupt songs, urging instead thanksgiving, psalmody, and Byzantine hymnody. Tracing self-defense and lying to the fall of Adam and Eve and to the devil as the father of lies, he defers the graver sins of the tongue to the following evening.
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