مَا تَكَلَّمْتُ مِنْ تِلْقَاءِ نَفْسِي، بَلِ الآبُ الَّذي أَرْسَلَنِي هُوَ أَوْصَانِي بِمَا أَقُولُ وَبِمَا أَتَكَلَّم/I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak
I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 12/48-50/:”The one who rejects me and does not receive my word has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge, for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.”
Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better so that they would not, without us, be made perfect.
Letter to the Hebrews 11/32-40/:”And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection. Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better so that they would not, without us, be made perfect.
