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and keeping you in total blindness

Always live in remembrance of death

“We were amazed to see that one who had before been so negligent was so suddenly transfigured by this blessed change and transformation

and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever

He will swallow up death in victory

or brothers

and let him go to blessed dispassion

The icon is of sufficient importance to have had its history detailed in multiple 16th and 17th century sources

so the soul becomes stamped with the impressions of its deeds and activities

Let him take up his cross

For my heart was full of unclean thoughts

here is the Christ