THE SLAVONIC LIFE OF DAVID
WORD ABOUT DAVID, KING AND THE PROPHET OF THE LORD, HOW BORN AND AS WAS RESTED
1 He was an exceptionally strong and courageous man, devoted to God in his heart and serving God diligently. And with his wife Jezebel he gave birth to eight sons. And they took counsel among themselves, that they should part from one another, and no longer be combined in a carnal alliance. And Jezebel called on the servant whom Yesyu had held in mercy, by the name of Andrew, and said to him: If you keep your master diligently, I will give you rich gifts, and if he asks a woman, tell me, do not hide it from me in any case. Andrew promised: Let it be according to your word.
2 And so they kept their vow of Isaiah and Jezebel for 12 years. But one day, Issey said to his servant Andrew: Find me a woman, for my heart wants my woman. Andrei answered: Sir, I know a beautiful woman, but she is far from here; Isaiah was not at this time in his house, but in the countryside, far from home. And he said to him: Go, bring her to me. And he gave him gold. He went to Jezebel, his mistress, and told her everything. She came at night, and Issei copied with her without recognizing his wife.
3 And then she conceived the baby, and gave birth and gave his name to David, in Hebrew - stolen. And did not learn about this, and secretly raised him. When David was six years old, she took him to the sheep and handed it to the sheep shepherds. And who he was, nobody knew. And he grew up meekly and humble and reasoned to comprehend the game on all sorts of instruments - on tympanums, on the organs, and learned all the songs. And when he began to play, sheep and oxen, and all the animals galloped.
4 And the LORD sent his prophet, that he pour oil on the head of David, as a sign that the family of Abraham would reign. The Prophet Dathan came to the house of Jesse and said to him: Bring your sons, and I will mark them with a seal. Jeshu brought 8 sons. The Prophet Dathan said: There is not here your son, whom the Lord demands. Isaiah pleaded: Sir, I have no other children, only these. The Prophet stood on his own, Isaiah was in despair. His wife, Jezebel, when she came, opened the truth to her husband, and said: He is our son, but did not dare tell you, fearing that you will accept my words for deceit. And He ordered Isaiah to lead David. When David saw the prophet, he rejoiced. And he poured oil on his head, and gave him a seal. And he said to him: The Lord bless you and blessed be your name, and you will not perish for ever. Your tribe will raise the throne to the cherubim, and your daughter will be higher than the cherubim. Isaiah was surprised to hear, and said: Where will he take this greatness? He is taught only to feed the sheep. With this, the prophet retired.
5 Saul the king reigned in this land and dominated all living. But the demonic spirit penetrated Saul and tormented him, and prevented him from sleeping, and there was not a moment's rest for him. And one man told Saul and said: There is a resident in the Midian land named Issuey and he has a sheep shepherd - a great musician, marvelously playing the pipe; and cattle, and all nature dances, when he begins to play. Maybe it will be good for you. Then Saul sent and called David. When David began to play, the spirit of the unclean calmed down in Saul for three days. When David left, the devil again began to torment him. And Saul plotted to give his daughter David to his wife, that he always played and rescued Saul from the spirit of demons.
6 At that time Goliath departed from his king Saul's father and, uniting with the Chaldeans, seized the entire land of Saul, for Goliath's mother was a Chaldean. And he came to his father Saul to Jerusalem. And Saul said to David, Why does not your heart grieve over this? You see that my son has rejected me because of you, and has taken all my land, but now he wants to take Jerusalem. Do not you hurry, David?
7 In the morning Goliath Jerusalem besieged. David put on three armor, and was propped up with two spears, and jumped 30 cubits. And the people who saw this were amazed. And David went out against the Goliath armies. Saul did not like Goliath, and pointed to David as one who would destroy him. When David saw Goliath, he furiously put his horse on him. David did the same prayer: God is righteous and bright, and worthy. The horse of Goliath stumbled, and Goliath's sword pierced his heart. David drew this sword and cut off Goliath's head. And he returned to King Saul.
8 And then the unclean Saul left his spirit, and he planned to destroy David, and he summoned a certain warrior from the land of the Chaldeans, named Vastral, to kill David, and for this they would give David's wife for him. And the Vastral came in the morning in rich clothes to Saul, ready to decapitate David and get David's wife.
9 And David's wife lamented at the bed. David asked: Why are you as sad as ever? She answered: Oh, if you knew what evil plot is against you! David said: Why did not you warn me? And she told him everything. And he said to her: Is it true that you assure me? She said: He who made me a heaven and a land, I will not accept another husband.
10 David took one servant and disappeared secretly, and hid in a cave called Muhli. And stayed there for 7 months, constantly repeating: Remember, O Lord, David and all his meekness. And the king Saul longed to decapitate him, and sent him to search the whole earth. And they searched the mountains and caves, and the swamps-and they did not find it. They also came to the cave where David was hiding, but when they saw the cave overgrown with cobwebs, they left. His wife was dressed in a hair shirt and, falling to the ground, was crying.
11 And the angel of the Lord appeared to David and said to him: Go forth and stand in the place called Sukhi, and the Lord will be there with you. David came out, possessed by great fear, and stood at the place where the Lord had commanded him, and created a prayer: God, holy lord, the heavenly king, now look from the height of his immense. And all the people of David saw and unanimously welcomed him. Saul heard this and, getting angry, jumped on his horse and drove him to David. He took a stone and put it in his sling, and turning to the sky, he prayed and threw, and got to Saul in the eye. And the king fell. David drew his sword and killed him. And famous.
12 And he sat down on the throne of Saul. And he gave birth with his wife Absalom Krasnoplav. And the wife of David died. And after that he became bloodthirsty and disgusted, a fornicator and a murderer. There was a man who was just and notable by the name of Uriah. He had a beautiful wife. And David desired her. She did not want to, because she was faithful to God and her husband. David sent Uriah to battle to destroy him. And they killed him.
13 And God was angry for that, and sent an angel and a prophet Dathan to convict him of a prophet, and if he does not repent, that the angel killed him mercilessly. And the prophet appeared before David, saying: Judge me, my lord, by your judgment. The king said: Tell me what you have. The prophet said: One man had two hundred and nine sheep, I had one. He destroyed me and gave me over to death, and took my sheep, and then she gave birth to Solomon. David said: Verily, such a man is worthy of a cruel death. The Prophet said: This is you. David fell prostrate and, looking around, saw an angel in the guise of a warrior holding a sword, and prayed: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your great mercy. And when he showed Solomon, he said: My sin is always before me. And then the angel withdrew the sword from him.
14 His firstborn son Absalom matured and renounced his father and all the nobles with him, and seized all the lands and cities. And David entered, and shut up for three years, suffering great evil from his son Absalom, barking dry bones and skin. Absalom asked Solomon, saying: Give me an army, and you will sit on the throne and you will be the king of the universe. David did not know what to do. And Solomon asked him, saying: Tell me, Father, what kind of weapon did you possess since your youth? David said: O son, I do not know any weapon, only I sling hand-tampered. Solomon exclaimed: Father, father, this is truly your weapon, with him you defeated Goliath and Saul, the terrible king. With this weapon you obtained the kingdom. And again, now, pray to God, whom he called before, so he will save you now.
15 David took three stones and put them in sling with prayer: In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and threw into the army, and the Lord broke the army and struck invisibly. And the army was crushed. Then they drove two ten thousand, one - a thousand. The wind of his hair flew to Absalom, and he caught hold of the branch, and hung. Overtaking him, Solomon cut off his head and brought him to David. David, on seeing it, burst into tears. Solomon asked: Father, what are you crying, do not you remember how much evil he did to you? David replied: O son, I mourn the one born of me, for he was the son of a good wife.
16 To our God be glory for ever. Amen.
WORD ABOUT PSALTYRY
1 When David swore to the Lord, he promised to the God of Jacob that if he reposed, he would try to find the sanctuary of the Lord. And he sat down to write a Psalter. And did not know where the thought came from, how would the angel be what he writes.
2 A nobleman named Vior wanted to speak privately with the king, but the king told him: Come to this night and tell me what you want to say. Vior came by the king's word at night and saw a young man whispering to the king in the ear. And Vior did not appear before the king, and went out from the bed of the king. And the next morning, when he came, the king asked him: What did not you come to tell me your secret? But come again in the evening and tell me. And again Vior came in the evening and saw a young man brighter, brighter than the sun, in the ear of the king speaking. And again he retired. And the next morning he came to the king. The king said angrily: Why did not you come, as I told you? And Vior answered: My lord, king, I came three times and never once found you alone. And again the king asked him and ordered: Come in the evening.
3 And when Vior came to the king in the evening, the king asked him: Is this the man whom you saw before? And Vior answered him: Mister king, his face is like fire. And the king realized that the angel of the Lord told him the thought and the way to write the psalter poems.
4 There is near the palace of the Tsarevo a swamp, not far from the secret bed of the Tsarevo. And the toads let out screams when he wrote. David commanded his servants to disperse the toads with burning straw, lest they shout. And suddenly David saw one night a huge toad, spread out on his writing. He threw it off. And again I saw her a second time. And he thought about his writing, and it seemed to David that it was a great diabolical obsession. But the third time he found it on the scripture. And David said: I am exterminating you, devil, for doing evil to me. Then the toad said: I will not let you praise God, just as you do not give me.
5 Then King David ordered that the servants be recalled from the swamp that no evil should be done to those frogs. And immediately all the frogs zaglosili. Then David said, Let every breath praise the Lord.
6 He wrote the psalms of David in the Psalms only 300 and 60 and 5. And then King David built a small casket and printed the Psalter, sealed it, put it into a casket and, with tin, threw it into the sea according to its plan and said: If my word is true, The Psalter is pleasing to God, then this casket and the script that is stored in it will come out of the sea.
7 And the Psalter was at sea for 80 years. And after the death of David, Solomon threw the net into the sea and found a pewter box in the net. And Solomon opened it and found in the Psalter of David, his father, recorded the psalms only 100 and 50 and 3. And they preached to the world and put them in the cathedral church, where now they praise the high God.
8 But many years later, because of the frequent captivity of Jerusalem, psalms and songs, composed by David, were confused. And again Ezra the prophet sought out and collected 150 psalms, but he arranged them not in order, not as they were written under David. And the world filled with the songs of the Psalter.
9 So our Lord Jesus Christ shortly before our years in the same place ordered his disciples to throw a net in the sea and caught fish 100 and 50 and 3. As David and Solomon filled the world with a psalmic doctrine, so the apostles saturate the world with deity and true faith. Pisces - New covenant and baptism of the Lord in the name of Christ Jesus our Lord, to him the glory is always and now.
1 When David swore to the Lord, he promised to the God of Jacob that if he reposed, he would try to find the sanctuary of the Lord. And he sat down to write a Psalter. And did not know where the thought came from, how would the angel be what he writes.
2 A nobleman named Vior wanted to speak privately with the king, but the king told him: Come to this night and tell me what you want to say. Vior came by the king's word at night and saw a young man whispering to the king in the ear. And Vior did not appear before the king, and went out from the bed of the king. And the next morning, when he came, the king asked him: What did not you come to tell me your secret? But come again in the evening and tell me. And again Vior came in the evening and saw a young man brighter, brighter than the sun, in the ear of the king speaking. And again he retired. And the next morning he came to the king. The king said angrily: Why did not you come, as I told you? And Vior answered: My lord, king, I came three times and never once found you alone. And again the king asked him and ordered: Come in the evening.
3 And when Vior came to the king in the evening, the king asked him: Is this the man whom you saw before? And Vior answered him: Mister king, his face is like fire. And the king realized that the angel of the Lord told him the thought and the way to write the psalter poems.
4 There is near the palace of the Tsarevo a swamp, not far from the secret bed of the Tsarevo. And the toads let out screams when he wrote. David commanded his servants to disperse the toads with burning straw, lest they shout. And suddenly David saw one night a huge toad, spread out on his writing. He threw it off. And again I saw her a second time. And he thought about his writing, and it seemed to David that it was a great diabolical obsession. But the third time he found it on the scripture. And David said: I am exterminating you, devil, for doing evil to me. Then the toad said: I will not let you praise God, just as you do not give me.
5 Then King David ordered that the servants be recalled from the swamp that no evil should be done to those frogs. And immediately all the frogs zaglosili. Then David said, Let every breath praise the Lord.
6 He wrote the psalms of David in the Psalms only 300 and 60 and 5. And then King David built a small casket and printed the Psalter, sealed it, put it into a casket and, with tin, threw it into the sea according to its plan and said: If my word is true, The Psalter is pleasing to God, then this casket and the script that is stored in it will come out of the sea.
7 And the Psalter was at sea for 80 years. And after the death of David, Solomon threw the net into the sea and found a pewter box in the net. And Solomon opened it and found in the Psalter of David, his father, recorded the psalms only 100 and 50 and 3. And they preached to the world and put them in the cathedral church, where now they praise the high God.
8 But many years later, because of the frequent captivity of Jerusalem, psalms and songs, composed by David, were confused. And again Ezra the prophet sought out and collected 150 psalms, but he arranged them not in order, not as they were written under David. And the world filled with the songs of the Psalter.
9 So our Lord Jesus Christ shortly before our years in the same place ordered his disciples to throw a net in the sea and caught fish 100 and 50 and 3. As David and Solomon filled the world with a psalmic doctrine, so the apostles saturate the world with deity and true faith. Pisces - New covenant and baptism of the Lord in the name of Christ Jesus our Lord, to him the glory is always and now.
THE LEGEND OF DAVID AND VIRSAVIA
1 David, the great king, was neuter and simple in character from birth, and gentle, loved and revered Saul's children.
2 And while he was standing in the wards, he saw the wife of Uriah bathing in his garden, and told her to bring her to him, and did adultery with her. And her husband, Uriah, sent against the enemies and commanded in a battle to kill him.
3 Nathan the prophet knew when David conceived adultery and murder to commit, and predicted that a born infant would die. And he died, but Solomon was born from Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah.
4 And for that crime, God sent Nathan the prophet to David to say: Thus says the Lord, avoid one of three - either I will create a three-year famine in your land, or you will run three months from your enemies, or three days death will rule in your land. Then David sighed, saddened to the depth of his soul, and said: It is better for me to be in the power of the living God, for his bounties are greater than in the power of the people. And David chose death.
5 And the day of death came. The Lord sent death to Israel, from the morning until dinner, 70,000 people died. And the angel of God stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem, to destroy those who dwell in it. And David prayed to the Lord God, when he saw the angel that destroyed the people, and said: This, Lord, I have sinned, I, the shepherd, have done evil, but they, sheep, what evil have they done? Let there be, O Lord, your wrath upon me, upon your servant in the house of my father. And the Savior had mercy on him, he commanded the angel: Stop your hand.
6 David repented of his sin and built an altar to the Lord. And having lived virtuously, pleased God and, having prayed, fell asleep with a blissful sleep, passed into eternal life, having lived in old age with dignity.
THE SLAVONIC LIFE OF SOLOMON
Chapter 1
1 [. . .] And at that time Solomon gave a great feast to his people. Then two female prostitutes appeared before the king, and one woman said: I am in trouble, my lord. Me and this friend of mine - we live in the same house in which both were born. I had a son. And on the third day after I gave birth, this woman gave birth to a son. We live only together, and there is nobody with us in our house. This night the son of this woman died, because she slept him. And so, standing up in the middle of the night, she took my boy from my hand and laid him to sleep on her bed, and laid her dead boy to me. I got up in the morning to feed the baby and found him dead. Then I figured out that this is not my son, whom I gave birth to. And another woman said: No, my son is alive, and this is yours. And they argued before the king.
2 And the king said to them: So you say this: This is my living son, and her dead - and she says:No, my son is alive, and yours is dead. And the king said to the servants, Cut this living boy in half and give half of it to that half, half that. And the dead too, having cut, give half of this, and half of that.
3 And the woman whose son was alive answered and answered, for her soul was troubled because of her son, and she said: May I be in trouble, my lord. Give her this boy, do not kill him. And another woman said: Let there be neither me nor her! Cut it in two. The king replied: Give the child to a living woman who said: Give it to her, and do not kill him. Give it to her, for she is his mother.
4 Israel heard of this court, which the king judged, and all the faces of the Tsar were afraid, for they understood that it was given to him the meaning of God to do justice and justice.
5 Solomon married Pharaoh's daughter when he built the Holy of Holies. And he sent his ambassador to him with the words: My father-in-law! Send me help. And he chose six hundred people, having learned through astrology that they would die that year - he wanted to test Solomon's wisdom. When they were brought to Solomon, he saw them from a distance and ordered them to sew them shrouds. He sent his ambassador to them and sent them to Pharaoh, saying: My father-in-law! If you do not have anything to bury your dead, then this is clothing for you. At home, they are buried.
6 When Solomon built the Holy of Holies, it was necessary for him to ask a question to Kitovras. They told him where he lives, they said - in the desert far. Then the wise Solomon conceived to shackle the iron chain and the iron hoop, and on it he wrote the spell in the name of God, and sent the first of his boyars with servants, and ordered to carry wine and honey, and took sheep's skins with them. We came to Kitovras' dwelling, to three wells of it, but it was not there. And at the direction of Solomon poured wine and honey into those wells, and the wells were covered with sheepskins on top. In two wells they poured wine, and in the third honey. They themselves, hiding, looked from the hiding place when he came to drink water to the wells. And soon he came, pried to the water, began to drink and said: Everyone who drinks wine is not wiser. But he did not want to drink water, and he said: You are the wine that makes people happy, and drank all three wells. And he wanted to sleep a little, and dismantled his wine, and he fell asleep tightly. Boyar, however, coming up, tightly tied him on the neck, on the hands and on the legs. And, waking up, he wanted to rush. And the boyar said to him: Sir, Solomon wrote the name of the Lord with a spell on the chains that are now on you. He, seeing them on himself, humbly went to Jerusalem to the king.
7 His character was like that. He did not go by crooked, but only straight. And when they came to Jerusalem, they cleared the way before him and destroyed the house, for he did not go around. And we approached the widow's house. And, running out, the widow screamed, begging Kitovras: Sir, I'm a wretched widow. Do not hurt me! He curved around the corner, not agreeing with the path, and broke his rib. And he said: The bone breaks the soft tongue. When they led him through bargaining, then, hearing how one person said: Do not have shoes for seven years? Kitovras laughed. And when he saw another man, who was scolding, he laughed. And when he saw the wedding, he cried. Seeing the same man on the way, wandering without a road, he directed him to the road. And they brought him to the court of the princes.
8 On the first day he did not lead him to Solomon. And Kitovras said: Why does the king not call for me? They told him: He drank yesterday. Kitovras took the stone and laid it on another stone. Solomon was told how Kitovras acted. And the king said: He tells me to drink drinking on drink. And on the next day the king did not call him to him. And Kitovras asked: Why do not you lead me to the king and why do not I see his face? And they said: The king is not helping because he ate a lot yesterday. Then he took Kitovras stone from the stone.
9 On the third day they said: The king is calling you. He measured the rod by four cubits, went in to the king, bowed and silently threw the rod in front of the king. The king, in his wisdom, explained to his boyars what the rod means, and told: God gave you the possession of the universe, and you were not satisfied, he caught me. And Solomon said to him: Not by my whims I brought you, but to ask how to build the Holy of Holies. He brought you at the command of the Lord, because he did not allow me to rock stones with iron.
10 And Kitovras said: There is a small bird's nail named Shamir. He keeps his field cock in his nest on a stony mountain in the desert far away. Solomon sent his boyar and his servants, at the direction of Kitovras, to the nest. And Kitovras gave the boyar a clear glass and told him to hide at the nest: When the kokot flies out, close this nest with glass. The boyar went to the nest; and in it - the chicks are small, the coconut flew away behind the stern. And he laid the mouth of the nest with glass. We waited a little, and the coconut flew in, wanted to get into the nest. The chicks squeak through the glass, and he can not get to them. He kept the Shamir in a place, and brought it to the nest, and put it on the glass, though he was seated. Then people shouted and he let go. And, taking, the boyar brought to Solomon.
11 Then Solomon Kitovras asked: Why did you laugh when a man asked for shoes for seven years? I saw him, Kitovras replied, that he will not live even seven days. The king sent the check, and it turned out so. And Solomon asked: Why did you laugh when a man was fortunate? Replied Kitovras: He told people about the secret, but he did not know that under him - a treasure with gold. And Solomon said: Go and verify. Checked, and it turned out so. And the king asked: Why did he cry when he saw the wedding? Kitovras replied: I was saddened, because the groom does not live for thirty days. Checked the king, and it turned out so. And the king asked: Why did you bring a drunk man to the road? Kitovras replied: I heard from heaven that this person is virtuous and should serve him.
12 Kitovras stayed with Solomon until the completion of the Holy of Holies.
13 Once Solomon told Kitovras: Now I saw that your strength is like human, and not more than our strength, but the same. And Kitovras told him: King, if you want to see what my strength is, take off my chains and give me your ring from your hand, then you will see my strength. Solomon took off his iron chain and gave him a ring. And he swallowed the ring, spread his wing, swung and struck Solomon, and threw it on the edge of the promised land. The wise men and the scribes learned about this and sought out Solomon.
14 Always embraced Solomon's fear of Kitovras at night. And the king built a couch and commanded sixty strong men to stand around with swords. Therefore, it is said in the Scriptures: The bed of Solomon, sixty young men of the brave of the Israelites and of the countries of the north.
15 Kitovras, leaving to his people, gave Solomon a man with two heads. This man got accustomed to Solomon. Solomon asked him: What kind of people are you? Are you a man or a demon? The man answered: I am from people who live underground. And the king asked him: Do you have the sun and the moon? He said: From your west the sun rises to us, and in your east comes. So when you have a day, then we have a night. And when you have a night, then we have a day. And the king gave him a wife. And two sons were born to him: one with two heads, and the other with one. And their father had a lot of good. And their father died. Two-headed said to his brother: Let's divide the property over the heads. And the smaller brother said: There are two of us. Let's divide the estate in two. And went to the court to the king. The one-headed man said to the king: We are two brothers. We must divide the property in half. And he, a two-headed, said to the king: I have two heads, and I want to take two shares. And the king, in his wisdom, commanded to give vinegar and said: Are these two heads from different bodies; I'll pour vinegar on one head: if you do not feel another head, you'll take two shares on two heads. And if the other head feels pouring vinegar, then both of these heads are from one body. Then one share will be taken. And when vinegar poured on one head, the other squealed. And the king said: If you have one body, take one share. So king Solomon judged them.
16 There was the South's queen a stranger named Malkatoshka. She came to try Solomon with riddles. She was very wise. And he brought him gifts: twenty kapiy of gold, a lot of potions and a tree of the non-rotting. Solomon, hearing about the arrival of the queen, sat in the hall with a floor of transparent glass on the platform, wanting to test it. And she, seeing that the king is sitting in the water, picked up her clothes in front of him. And he saw that she was beautiful face, her body hairy, like a brush. With these hair she fascinated the men who were with her. Solomon said to his wise men, Prepare a bath and ointment with greens and anoint her body so that your hair falls out. And the wise men and scribes told him to get along with her. Having conceived from him, she went to her land and gave birth to a son, and it was Nebuchadnezzar.
17 That was her riddle to Solomon. She gathered the boys and girls dressed in the same clothes, and told the king: Understand your wisdom, which are boys, and which are girls. The king, by his wisdom, commanded to bear fruit, and poured them out before them. The boys began to pick up the clothes in the clothes, and the girls in the sleeves. And Solomon said: These are boys, and these are girls. She was surprised at this by his cunning.
18 The next day she gathered the children of the circumcised and uncircumcised, and said to Solomon, Make out who are circumcised, and who are uncircumcised. And the king commanded the bishop to bring in the holy crown, on which the word of the Lord was written, to which Balaam was turned away from the witchcraft. The circumcised children stood up, and the uncircumcised fell before the crown. She was very surprised.
19 The sages guessed her cunning Solomon: We have a well far from the city. Wisely guess what you can drag him into the city? The Solomon cunning, realizing that this could not be, was told to them: Weave a rope from the bran, and we will drag your well into the city.
20 And again her sages asked: If the field becomes knives, how can you shake it? They were answered: The donkey's horn. And the wise men said to her, Where are the horns from the donkey? They answered: And where will the knives bring the knives?
21 And they also guessed: If salt decays, what can you salt it with? They said: Take the mule taking it, it must be salted. And they said: But where does the mule give birth? They answered: Where does the salt rot?
22 The queen, seeing the mansions created, and eating plenty, and how his people sit, and how his servants stand, and their attire, and the drink, and the sacrifices they brought to the house of God, said: The true speech I heard in my land concerning your wisdom. And I had no faith in speech until I came and saw with my own eyes. It turns out that half of me was not told. It is good for your husbands who hear your wisdom.
23 King Solomon gave this queen the name of Malkatoshka and everything she asked for. And she went into her own land with her people.
Chapter 2
1 In the days of Solomon there lived a man who had three sons. Dying, this man called them to him and told them: I have a treasure in the ground. In that place, - said, - three vessels stand on top of each other. After my death, the older one will take the upper, the middle - the middle, and the lower - the lower one. After the death of his father, his sons opened this treasure in the presence of people. And it turned out that the upper vessel was full of gold, on average full of bones, and in the lower one full of earth. They began to quarrel these brothers, saying: You are a son, if you take gold, and we are not sons? And they went to Solomon's court. And Solomon judged them: what is gold, then to the eldest, that the cattle and servants are to the middle, judging by the bones; but that the vineyards, fields and bread - then the smaller. And he said to them: Your father was an intelligent man and divided you in life.
2 One day three people walked their way, carrying gold in their belts. Stopping for a Saturday rest in a deserted place, they conferred and decided: Hide the gold in a hiding place: if robbers attack, we will escape, but it will be saved. After digging a hole, they all put their belts in a hiding place. In the middle of the night, when the two friends fell asleep, the third one, feeding on the evil thought, got up and stashed the belts to another place. And when they, having rested, came to a hiding place to take their belts, then, not finding them, they all shouted at once; The villain screamed much louder than both. And all returned home. And they said: Let's go to Solomon and tell him about our misfortune. And they came to Solomon, and said: We do not know whether the king took the beast, whether it was a bird or an angel. Explain to us, the king. He told them in wisdom: I'll find you tomorrow. But since you are travelers, I beg you, please explain to me:
3 A certain young man, engaged to a beautiful girl, gave her an engagement ring without her father and mother knowing. This young man went to another land and married there. And the father gave the girl in marriage. And when the groom wanted to mate with her, the girl screamed and said: From shame, I did not tell my father that I was engaged to another. Fear God, go to my helper, ask him for permission: let me be your wife by his word. The young man gathered and, taking much good and a girl, went there. And he allowed him: Let her be your wife, since you took her. The bridegroom also tells her: Let's go back and we'll have a wedding again. And when they went home back, they met a certain rapist with their people and captured him and with the girl and with the good. And this robber wanted to create violence over the girl, and she cried out and told the robber that she went for permission and was not yet with her husband in bed. The robber was surprised and told her husband: Take your wife and go with your good.
4 And Solomon said: I told you about this girl and the young man. Tell me now, you people who have lost their belts: who is better - a young man, or a girl, or a robber? One in reply said: The girl is good, because she told about her betrothal. Another said: The boy is good, because he waited until he was allowed. The third said: The robber is better than everyone, because he returned the girl and let him go. And the good did not have to be given away. Then Solomon said in reply: Friend, you are eager for someone else's good. You took all the belts. The same said: The king-lord, truly indeed. I will not hide from you.
5 And then Solomon the wise, wishing to experience the meaning of women, called his boyar, named Dekir, and said to him: I like you very much. And even more will fall in love with you, if you fulfill my desire: kill your wife, and I will give my best for you. The same thing told him in a few days. And Dekir did not want to do it. And finally he said: I will do your will, Tsar. The king gave him his sword with the words: Cut off your wife's head when she sleeps, lest she talk you out with her own words. He went, found his wife asleep, and on the sides of her two children. And he, looking at his wife and his sleeping children, said in his heart: If I strike my friend with my sword, I will grieve my children. The king called him to him and asked him, saying: Have you fulfilled my will concerning your wife? He replied: I could not do it, my lord the king.
6 The king also sent him as an ambassador to another city and, summoning his wife, said to her: I like you much more than all women. If you do what I tell you, I will make you a queen. Forget your husband's sleeping on the bed, and this is your sword. In response, his wife said: I'm glad, king, that you are so great. Solomon, realizing, with the wisdom of her husband, that he does not want to kill his wife, gave him a sharp sword; and understanding his wife, - that she wants to kill her husband, gave her a dumb sword, pretending that he is sharp, saying: Sword your husband, sleeping on your bed with this sword. She put the sword on her husband's breast and began to drive them through his throat, thinking that he was sharp. And he jumped up quickly, believing that some enemies had attacked him, and seeing that his wife was holding a sword, why, said, my friend, did you decide to kill me? In reply to her husband, her wife said: The human tongue persuaded me, that I might kill you. He also wanted to call people and then realized that Solomon had taught her.
7 Solomon, hearing about this, wrote this verse in the Collection, saying: I found a man among thousands, but women in all the world did not find.
Chapter 3
1 In the days of Solomon there was a rich man in Babylon, but he had no children. Having lived half his days, he adopted a servant boy. And when he had equipped, he sent him with the goods from Babylon for trade. The same person who came to Jerusalem got there. And he was among the boyars Solomon, sitting at a dinner with the king.
2 And in the meantime the master of his house had a son. And when the boy was thirteen years old, his father died. And his mother said to him: Son, I heard about your father's servitude, that he got hold of in Jerusalem. Go and find him. He came to Jerusalem and asked about the man by the name that this servant had. And he was very famous. He was told that he was at a dinner with Solomon. And the boy entered the king's room, and asked: Who is there such a boyar? He said in response: This is me. Approaching, the boy struck him in the face and said: You are my servant! Do not boyar, sitting, but go work! And give me my good! And the king was angry, and he was vexed. Turning to Solomon, the boy said: If there is not, the king, this slave of my father is mine, then for the fact that I hit him with my own hand, I will get a blow with the sword that will kill me. The striker, in his turn, said: I am the master's son, and this is my father's servant and mine. I have witnesses in Babylon. The king said: I will not believe the witnesses; I'd better send my ambassador to Babylon - let him take a humer bone from the grave of his father, and she will tell me which of you is the son and who is the servant. And you will be here. And the king sent his trusted ambassador, and he brought a humerus. According to his wisdom, the king ordered to clean the bone cleanly, planted his boyar and all the wise men, boyars and scribes in front of him and said to a man who knows how to let blood: Let the blood go to this boyar. He did it. Then the king ordered to put the bone in warm blood. He explained the meaning of the command to his boyars, saying: If this is his son, his blood will cling to his father's bone. If he does not stick, it's a slave. And they took out the bone from the blood, and it was a white bone, as before. Then the king ordered the other vessel to let the child's blood flow. And, washing the bone, put it in the blood of a young man. And the bone was saturated with blood. And the king said to his boyars: You see with your own eyes what this bone says: This one is my son, and this one is a slave. So the king judged them.
3 After this, Solomon began to tell his boyars: There was Adarian-king, and he ordered his boyars to call him God. And, not wanting, the boyars were told: Our King! Do you think in your heart that there was no God before you? We will call you the highest king among the kings, if you take the high Jerusalem and the Holy of Holies. He, having gathered with many soldiers, went and took Jerusalem, and went back, and said to them: Just as God, what he commands and says, will do, so I did. Now call me God. He had three philosophers. The first responded to him, saying: If you want to be called God, take heed: the boyar can not be called a king, being in the royal palace - until he comes out. So you, if you want to be called God, come out of the whole universe and there you are called God.
4 And the other said: You can not be called God. The king asked: Why? He replied: Jeremiah the prophet says: Gods who did not create heaven and earth, let them perish. If you want to perish, king, be called God.
5 And the third said: My lord the king! Help me quickly! The king asked: What's the matter with you? And the philosopher said: My boat is three versts from here ready to drown, and all my goods are in it. And the king said: Do not be afraid. I will send people, and they will lead her. But the philosopher said: Why do you, the king, trouble your people? Send a quiet wind, let him save her. The same, having understood, did not say anything displeased and went to rest to his queen.
6 And the queen said: Philosophers deceived you, king, by telling you that you can not be called God. Wishing to console him in that sorrow, she said: You are a king, you are rich, you are worthy of great honor. Do it, - said, - one thing, and then be called God. The king asked: What kind? And the queen answered: God's property, which you have, return. He asked: What property? The queen said: Return your soul, which God put in your body, and then be called God. He retorted: If there is no soul in me, in my body, how shall I be called God? The queen said to him: If you do not own your soul, then you can not even call God.
7 King Solomon asked the princess for herself. And they did not give it up for him. Then Solomon said to the demons: Go, and take this princess, and bring her to me. And the demons, having gone, kidnapped her at the crossing, when she came from her mother's quarters, she was put in a ship and rushed by the sea.
8 And then the princess saw that a man drinks water, and behind him the water goes out. She asked: Explain to me what it is. And the demons said: He will explain to you, to whom you are taking. They go further and see - a man, wandering in the water, asking for water, and his waves are knocked down. And the princess said: My disreputable matchmakers, and this explains to me: why does that person, in the water wandering, ask for water? And they said: He will explain to you, to whom you are taking. And they drove on and saw a man reaping hay, he goes, and two goats, following him walking, eat the grass: what they cut, they eat. And the princess said: Explain to me, my unworthy matchmakers, explain to me: why should those goats not eat unstripped grass? And the demons told her: He will explain to you to whom we are taking you.
9 And they approached her to the city. One demon went and told Solomon the king: Bride you a bride. The king, having mounted his horse, rode ashore. And the princess said to him: Today I am yours, tsar. But here's what to explain to me: a man was drinking water, and behind him, she went out. The king said: Why are you surprised at this? After all, this is a royal house: it enters here, it leaves here. And the princess asked: And now explain to me what it is: one man, wandering around in the water, asking for water, and the waves knocking him down? Solomon replied: O bride! Why do you marvel at this, bride? This is in fact a servant of the tsars: he judges one case, and another seeks litigation, so that the heart can do good to the prince. And that's what I still have to explain: a man cuts the grass, and what cuts, then two goats, after walking, they eat. Why should not those he go into the hay eat the uncut grass? And the king said: The bride! What are you surprised at! If a person takes another wife with other people's children, then what they will earn, they will eat. And for himself, he has nothing. Now go, bride, to my rest.
10 So she became his wife.
THE SLAVONIC DISCOURSE OF THE THREE HIERARCHS
Questions and Answers from the Divine Scriptures
Chapter 1
Question. What does it mean: sixty queens and eighty concubines and girls without number?
Answer. A single queen in sixty queens is a soul, and eighty concubines open the eighth sacrament, that is, the future age.
Question. What does it mean: the widow's house - dwelling habitable, and in it a handful of flour, and oil, and water, and two logs? How is the name of the risen son?
Answer. The name of the widow is Sarept, her son is Jonah, and her house is represented by a church, a handful of flour - holy communion, oil and water - baptism, and two logs - a cross.
Question. What is this: the rich, who has great wealth, came to the beggar, and gave the poor to the rich much?
Answer. The rich is Christ, and the beggar is John, Christ came to John, possessing all the blessings of the earth, and received from John a baptism, which he did not have.
Question. Who brought to the Lord pure water and a non-woven board and asked for himself what he does not have?
Answer. When the harlot fell at the feet of the Lord, moistened them with tears, wiped them with her hair, then she asked forgiveness for her sins.
Question. What does it mean: Isaiah said: His authority is on his shoulder?
Answer. He carried a cross on his shoulder, for he was going to the crucifixion.
Question. What does it mean if Jeremiah said: Gorlitsa, swallows, strong chur - birds, they knew the coming of the summer?
Answer. The gorlitsa is called the church, and the swallow is John the Baptist, and Shchur is the blessed teacher, the wise Paul, and the summer is Christ, and as these birds herald the coming of the summer, so they preach the coming of Christ.
Question. What woman from the people said: Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked?
Answer. This was said by Photina the Samaritan woman, whom the Lord appeared at the well of Jacob.
Question. What does it mean that the Lord said: If you forgive people of their sins, your heavenly Father will forgive you?
Answer. So He says to all believers, orders to forgive anger and all enmity to his friends and brothers.
Question. The Lord said: A little while longer, and you will not see me, and then see me for a while.
Answer. When they put Him in a coffin, they did not see. When he rose again, then they saw.
Question. The Lord said: There will be a tree where the birds of the sky will fly and settle on its branches.
Answer. The oak is the world, the branches are the peoples, and the birds are the apostles, throughout the world and all the nations preaching the Word of God.
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Question. Why did the Lord say three times: Simon, son of Jonas, do you love me?
Answer. Because the one denied thrice.
Question. What do you mean, five loaves, two fish, twelve baskets with slices?
Answer. Five loaves are the Pentateuch of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and the two fishes are the Apostle and the Gospel, twelve baskets with slices - the teachings of the twelve apostles. Our Lord Jesus Christ by his hands first baptized the holy apostle Peter, and the holy apostle Peter of the holy Apostle Andrew, and Andrew baptized John the Theologian and Jacob, and James and the Theologian baptized all the apostles, Peter and John the Theologian baptized the holy Mother of God.
Question. What does it mean that there is a porch of Solomon in Galilee?
Answer. This is the church that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed, and then built Cyrus, and Solomon's porch was not destroyed, so the evangelist said, In the porch of Solomon.
Question. What does it mean, as the Scripture says: I saw a wife sitting on the sea, and a snake lying at her feet. When a wife gives birth to babies, the snake devours them ?
Interpretation. The sea is the whole world, and the wife denotes the church in the middle of the world, and the snake is the Devil. And when the believers want to be saved by coming to church, the Devil hinders, tempting them with all sorts of temptations.
Question. What does it mean: we were looking for one thing, and we found three, and what we were looking for could not recognize it, but was shown by a dead girl?
Interpretation. When the Lord was crucified with two thieves on three crosses, Saint Elena found three crosses, not knowing the Lord's cross, and when the cross was placed on the dead girl of the Lord, suddenly a dead girl sat down.
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Question. Who is this, of whom it is said: from two I can not escape, but I can not catch up with two?
Interpretation. From death and old age can not escape, but life and youth can not catch up.
Question. Who, who did not receive death, fled from death?
Interpretation. Ilya escaped from Jezebel.
Question. What does this mean: Woe to you, hail, in which the young king, and the boyars drink early and eat early?
Interpretation. The city is a soul, and the young king is a mind, and drunk boyars are cunning and evil thoughts.
Question. Where did the heat and cold mingle?
Interpretation. In Sodom and Gomorrah, the city and hot coals.
Question. Whose voice swept from East to West?
Interpretation. When God cursed Cain.
Question. When did the fourth part of the universe die?
Interpretation. When Cain killed Abel his brother.
Question. Who gave birth to the giants?
Interpretation. Grandson of Ham.
Question. What righteous man did the city save from death?
Answer. Lota Zigor, when he fled Sodom.
Question. When did the whole world rejoice?
Answer. When Noah came out of the ark.
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Question. What church was created, through the renewal of which the entire world will perish?
Answer. Noah's Ark.
Question. Who taught us to pray to God to the east?
Answer. Moses is on the Sinai mountain.
Question. The priest is not delivered, the deacon is an apostate, the singer is a fornicator.
Answer. John baptized God, and the apostate Peter, and the fornicator - David.
Chapter 2
Question. What prophet was born twice?
Interpretation. Cock. Firstly, the hen took an egg. Secondly, he hatched from the egg, that is, was born. A prophet is because early people announce the dawn.
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Why in the month of thirty days, and four weeks?
Interpretation. Because of the four elements: the first element contains B, the second - O, the third - G, the fourth - b. Connecting them, you get God.
On the sixth stands, two talk, five announce, twelve marvel.
Interpretation. Two are talking - Christ is with the Samaritan woman. On the sixth stands Christ: at the sixth hour he will come to the well, five will announce - the Pentateuch of Moses, twelve marveling - 12 apostles.
Four eagles carried one egg, which was absorbed by the whole world.
Interpretation. Four evangelists, and the egg is the Gospel, the whole world was filled with the gospel teaching.
I saw a snake lying by the road, grabbing a horse by the hoof, and the horse sat on its hind leg, waiting for salvation from God.
Interpretation. The road is faith, and the horse is humanity, and the hind leg is the last human race. And the snake is the Devil, the seeker, who would swallow it up.
Two stand, two go, two diverge.
Interpretation. Heaven and earth are standing, and the sun and month are moving, but day and night diverge.
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Jesus in the arrows, Moses in the hall, Paul in the girls, David marries. Adam is a matchmaker, Solomon is going for the bride. The river flows in the middle of the sea, and the living one is beating in flames. And the caller, standing on the mountain, calls: Come, come. Some came, others died, but the one who calmed down.
Interpretation. Jesus in the arrows means - in the Transfiguration. Moses in the hall means - in the basket, Paul in the girls means - a virgin, David marries means that there are a lot of wives, Adam the matchmaker - the same interpretation. Solomon goes for the bride, the river flows in the middle of the sea, and the live in the fire jumps. The beast is small, the Ceylon salamander, flies in the fire, but does not burn. And the caller, standing, from the mountain, calls: Come, come, some came, and others died, but to the called rest, means: Come, Moses and Elijah; means: the apostles fell prostrate on the mountain, and Christ rest; means: when He came down from the mountain with them and showed them his Transfiguration. In Ilopia, the river Theos flows through the sea, and the sea water does not merge with it.
The grandson said to the grandmother: Baba, put me with you. And the woman said to him: How can I put you, because you gave birth to me?
Interpretation. The grandson is Christ, and the woman is the earth.
Chapter 3
Why: from a woman was born and crucified on a tree? And was baptized with water?
Interpretation. Because of this, so that the human race has sinned through a woman. For the Devil deceived Eve, and Adam lost his Paradise. Similarly, God cleanses the poison of the devil, the victory of the Devil took place through the woman. Because of a woman, Raya lost a man, from a woman incarnated God and commanded the faithful to enter Paradise. And on the tree it will be crucified, because as Adam, having tasted of the tree, lost Paradise, so God accepted suffering for him on the tree. And the Devil will be defeated by the tree, and the righteous will receive the life of the tree of life. Therefore, I renew the water, that the sins of men were multiplied by Noah, and God brought a flood to the earth, and drowned people on the earth with water. Therefore, God said: If I have killed people by water because of sins, then I also cleanse the sins of man with water. Therefore, even now they are baptized with the Holy Spirit and with water.