في وَقْتِ الرِّضَى ٱسْتَجَبْتُكَ، وفي يَوْمِ الخَلاصِ أَعَنْتُكَ/At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you

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وكانَ الجَمْعُ كُلُّهُ يَطْلُبُ أَنْ يَلْمُسَهُ، لأَنَّ قُوَّةً كَانَتْ تَخْرُجُ مِنهُ وَتَشْفِي الجَمِيع
إنجيل القدّيس لوقا06/من12حتى19/:”في تِلْكَ الأَيَّام، خَرَجَ يَسُوعُ إِلى الجَبَلِ لِيُصَلِّي، وَأَمْضَى اللَّيْلَ في الصَّلاةِ إِلى الله. ولَمَّا كانَ النَّهَار، دَعَا تَلامِيذَهُ وٱخْتَارَ مِنهُمُ ٱثْنَي عَشَرَ وَسَمَّاهُم رُسُلاً، وَهُم: سِمْعانُ الَّذي سَمَّاهُ أَيضًا بُطرُس، وأَنْدرَاوُس أَخُوه، ويَعْقُوب، وَيُوحَنَّا، وَفِيلِبُّس، وبَرْتُلْمَاوُس، ومَتَّى، وَتُومَا، وَيَعْقُوبُ بنُ حَلْفَى، وَسِمْعَانُ المُلَقَّبُ بِالغَيُور،ويَهُوذَا بنُ يَعْقُوب، ويَهُوذَا الإسْخَريُوطِيُّ الَّذي صَارَ خَائِنًا.وَنَزلَ يَسُوعُ مَعَ رُسُلِهِ، ووَقَفَ في مَكانٍ سَهْل، وكانَ هُناكَ جَمْعٌ كَثيرٌ مِن تَلامِيذِهِ، وَجُمْهُورٌ غَفيرٌ مِنَ الشَّعْب، مِن كُلِّ اليَهُودِيَّة، وأُورَشَليم، وَسَاحِلِ صُورَ وصَيْدا، جَاؤُوا لِيَسْمَعُوه، ويُشْفَوا مِن أَمْراضِهِم. والمُعَذَّبُونَ بِالأَرْوَاحِ النَّجِسَةِ كَانُوا هُم أَيضًا يُبرَأُون. وكانَ الجَمْعُ كُلُّهُ يَطْلُبُ أَنْ يَلْمُسَهُ، لأَنَّ قُوَّةً كَانَتْ تَخْرُجُ مِنهُ وَتَشْفِي الجَمِيع.”

في وَقْتِ الرِّضَى ٱسْتَجَبْتُكَ، وفي يَوْمِ الخَلاصِ أَعَنْتُكَ
رسالة القدّيس بولس الثانية إلى أهل قورنتس/05/20-21.06,01-07/:”يا إخوَتِي، نَحْنُ سُفَرَاءُ ٱلمَسِيح، وكَأَنَّ ٱللهَ نَفْسَهُ يَدْعُوكُم بِوَاسِطَتِنَا. فَنَسْأَلُكُم بِٱسْمِ المَسِيح: تَصَالَحُوا مَعَ ٱلله! إِنَّ الَّذي مَا عَرَفَ الخَطِيئَة، جَعَلَهُ ٱللهُ خَطِيئَةً مِنْ أَجْلِنَا، لِنَصِيرَ نَحْنُ فِيهِ بِرَّ ٱلله. وَبِمَا أَنَّنا مُعَاوِنُونَ لله، نُنَاشِدُكُم أَلاَّ يَكُونَ قَبُولُكُم لِنِعْمَةِ ٱللهِ بِغَيْرِ فَائِدَة؛ لأَنَّهُ يَقُول: «في وَقْتِ الرِّضَى ٱسْتَجَبْتُكَ، وفي يَوْمِ الخَلاصِ أَعَنْتُكَ». فَهَا هُوَ الآنَ وَقْتُ الرِّضَى، وهَا هُوَ الآنَ يَوْمُ ٱلخَلاص. فإِنَّنَا لا نَجْعَلُ لأَحَدٍ سَبَبَ زَلَّة، لِئَلاَّ يَلْحَقَ خِدْمَتَنَا أَيُّ لَوْم. بَلْ نُظْهِرُ أَنْفُسَنَا في كُلِّ شَيءٍ أَنَّنَا خُدَّامُ ٱلله، بِثَبَاتِنا العَظِيمِ في الضِّيقَاتِ والشَّدَائِدِ والمَشَقَّات، في الضَّرَبَات، والسُّجُون، والفِتَن، والتَّعَب، والسَّهَر، والصَّوْم، وبِالنَّزَاهَة، والمَعْرِفَة، والأَنَاة، واللُّطْف، والرُّوحِ القُدُس، والمَحَبَّةِ بِلا رِيَاء، في كَلِمَةِ الحَقّ، وقُوَّةِ ٱلله، بِسِلاحِ البِرِّ في اليَدَيْنِ اليُمْنَى واليُسْرَى.”

And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 06/12-19/:”Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.”

At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you
Second Letter to the Corinthians 05/20-21.06,01-07/:”We are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, ‘At an acceptable time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you.’ See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation! We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labours, sleepless nights, hunger;
by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;”