All these warriors and guards are trusty. No one is idle, no one is useless. One can obtain your pardon from God, another comfort you when sick, another weep and groan in sympathy for you to the Lord of all, another teach some of the things useful for salvation, another admonish with confidence, another counsel with kindness. And all can love truly, without guile, without fear, without hypocrisy, without flattery, without pretence. O sweet service of loving ! O blessed thoughts of confident ! O sincere faith of those who fear God alone! O truth of words with those who cannot lie! O beauty of deeds with those who have been commissioned to serve God, to persuade God, to please God, not to touch thy flesh! to speak, but to the King of eternity dwelling in thee.
Apocrypha · Chapter 35 of 42
Who is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? 35
Patristic Treatise
Words in this chapter
What these words meant in the original — and where else they appear.
- ChesedחֶסֶדThe loving loyalty of the one who does not walk away — rendered mercy, lovingkindness or steadfast love.
- EmunahאֱמוּנָהFaith as firmness and faithfulness — not as an opinion about something uncertain.
- AgapeἀγάπηThe love that chooses the good of the other, whatever it feels about them.
- YeshuahיְשׁוּעָהSalvation as concrete rescue: being pulled out of the tight place, the enemy, the illness.
About Who is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. Published here from a public-domain translation, edited for continuous reading.