of God! 2 Life with immortality; joyousness with observance
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confidence; let us be subject to His will; let us consider the vast multitude of His angels, and see how they stand in readiness to minister to His will. 6 For the Scripture says: *"
Ten thousand times ten thousand stood ready before Him, and thousand times one thousand ministered to Him, and cried out: "
Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole creation is replete with His splendor." 7 And so we, too, being dutifully assembled with one accord,*" should, as with one voice, cry out to Him earnestly, so that we may participate in His great and glorious promises. 8 For it is said: **
Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and heart of man has not conceived, what He has prepared for those that await
Him patiently.
35. How blessed, beloved, and marvellous are the gifts of God! 2 Life with immortality; joyousness with observance of the law; truth with boldness; faith with confidence; continence with holiness! And all these blessings even now fall within our comprehension! 3 What, then, are the things that are prepared for those who wait patiently! The Creator and Father of the ages, the All-holy, alone grasps their number and beauty. 4 Let us, therefore, exert ourselves to be found in the number of those who patiently wait for Him, so that we may participate in the promised gifts. 5 But how, beloved, can this be done? If our mind is faithfully fixed on God; if we seek out what is pleasing and acceptable to Him; if we carry out what His irreprehensible will demands, and follow the way of truth, by ridding ourselves of every vice and wickedness, of avarice, strife, malice and fraud, gossip and slander, hatred of God, pride and arrogance, conceit and inhospitality. 6 For those who practice these things are hateful to-God; and not only those that do such things, but also those that countenance them.** 7 For the Scripture says:*"