إِجْتَهِدُوا أَنْ تَدْخُلُوا مِنَ البَابِ الضَّيِّق. أَقُولُ لَكُم: إِنَّ كَثِيرينَ سَيَطْلُبُونَ الدُّخُولَ فَلا يَقْدِرُون/Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 13/22-30:”Jesus went through one town and village after another, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, ‘Lord, will only a few be saved?’ He said to them, ‘Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. When once the owner of the house has got up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, “Lord, open to us”, then in reply he will say to you, “I do not know where you come from. “Then you will begin to say, “We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets. “But he will say, “I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers! “There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrown out. Then people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God. Indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.’”
يُطَفِّحُونَ على الدَّوامِ كَيْلَ آثَامِهِم ولَقَدْ حَلَّ الغَضَبُ عَلَيْهِم إِلى النِّهَايَة
“رسالة القدّيس بولس الأولى إلى أهل تسالونيقي02/من13حتى17/:”يا إخوَتِي، نَحْنُ أَيضًا نَشكُرُ اللهَ بغيرِ ٱنْقِطَاع، لأَنَّكُم لَمَّا تَلَقَّيْتُم كَلِمَةَ الله الَّتي سَمِعْتُمُوهَا مِنَّا، قَبِلْتُمُوهَا لا بِأَنَّهَا كَلِمَةُ بَشَر، بَلْ بِأَنَّهَا حَقًّا كَلِمَةُ الله. وإِنَّهَا لَفَاعِلَةٌ فيكُم، أَيُّهَا المُؤْمِنُون. فأَنْتُم، أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَة، قَدِ ٱقْتَدَيْتُم بِكَنَائِسِ اللهِ في المَسِيحِ يَسُوع، الَّتي هِيَ في اليَهُودِيَّة، لأَنَّكُمُ ٱحْتَمَلْتُم أَنْتُم أَيْضًا مِنْ بَنِي أُمَّتِكُم، ما ٱحْتَمَلُوهُ هُم مِنَ اليَهُود،الَّذِينَ قَتَلُوا الرَّبَّ يَسُوع، والأَنْبِيَاء، وٱضْطَهَدُونَا نَحْنُ أَيْضًا، وهُم لا يُرْضُونَ الله، ويُعادُونَ كُلَّ النَّاس، ويَمْنَعُونَنَا مِنْ أَنْ نُكَلِّمَ الأُمَمَ فَيَنَالُوا الخَلاص، وبِذلِكَ يُطَفِّحُونَ على الدَّوامِ كَيْلَ آثَامِهِم. لَقَدْ حَلَّ الغَضَبُ عَلَيْهِم إِلى النِّهَايَة.أَمَّا نَحْنُ، أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَة، فَمَا إِنْ تَيَتَّمْنَا مِنْكُم مُدَّةَ سَاعَة، بِالوَجْهِ لا بِالقَلْب، حَتَّى بَذَلْنَا جَهْدًا شَدِيدًا، وَبِشَوقٍ كَبير، لِنَرى وَجْهَكُم.”
Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins; but God’s wrath has overtaken them at last.
First Letter to the Thessalonians 02/13-17:”We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God’s word, which is also at work in you believers. For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own compatriots as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone.by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins; but God’s wrath has overtaken them at last. As for us, brothers and sisters, when, for a short time, we were made orphans by being separated from you in person, not in heart we longed with great eagerness to see you face to face.”
