الكنيسة ووحدتُها (9)للقديس يوحنا ذهبي الفم:



الكنيسة ووحدتُها (9)

للقديس يوحنا ذهبي الفم:

                                                         
الكنيسة جُبلت من جنب المسيح
كما جُبلت حواء من جنب آدم

 [«وخرج من جنبه ماء ودم» (انظر يو19: 34).
لا تَعبُر ببساطة أيها الحبيب على هذا السر،
فإن عندي كلام آخر سرِّي أريد أن أقوله:
إن هذا الماء والدم يرمزان إلى المعمودية و”الأسرار“ (الإفخارستيا)
ومن كليهما نشأت الكنيسة
«بغسل الميلاد الثاني وتجديد الروح القدس» (تي3: 5)،
بالمعمودية و”الأسرار“ (الإفخارستيا).
لأن من جنبه خرج رمزا المعمودية و”الأسرار“،
وقد جبَلَ المسيح الكنيسة من جنبه، كما جُبلت حواء من جنب آدم.
لذلك يقول موسى في معرض حديثه عن الإنسان الأول:
«هذه عظم من عظامي ولحم من لحمي» (تك2: 23)،
موجِّهاً أنظارنا كما في لغز إلى جنب السيِّد.
فكما أخذ الله حينذاك ضلعًا وجبله امرأة،
هكذا أعطانا من جنبه دمًا وماءً وجبَلَ الكنيسة.
وكما أنه أخذ الضلع حينذاك أثناء سُبات آدم، إذ كان نائماً،
هكذا الآن من بعد موت المسيح أعطى الدم والماء، الماء أولاً ثم الدم.
أعلمتم كيف اقترن المسيح بعروسه؟
أعلمتم بأي طعام يُقيتنا نحن جميعاً؟ بنفس الطعام نحن تكوَّننا ونقتات]

عظات إلى المعمَّدين الجدد 3: 17-19

St. John Chrysostom

The Church Created from the Side of Christ
As Eve from the Side of Adam

There came out from His side water and blood. Beloved, do not pass this mystery by without a thought. For I have still another mystical explanation to give. I said that there was a symbol of baptism and the mysteries in that blood and water. It is from both of these that the church is sprung through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit (Tit. 3:5), through baptism and the mysteries. But the symbols of baptism and the mysteries come from the side of Christ. It is from His side, therefore, that Christ formed His church, just as He formed Eve from the side of Adam. And so Moses, too, in his account of the first man, has Adam say: Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh (Gen 2: 23), hinting to us of the Master's side. Just as at that time God took the rib of Adam and formed a woman, so Christ gave us blood and water from His side and formed the Church. Just as then He took the rib from Adam when he was in a deep sleep, so now He gave us blood and water after His death, first the water and then the blood… Have you seen how Christ unites to Himself His bride? Have you seen with what food He nurtures us all? It is by the same food that we have been formed and are fed.

Homily to the new Baptized 3, 17-19, ACW, vol. 31, p.62

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ἐκ τοῦ ἁγίου ᾿Ιωάννου τοῦ Χρυσοστόμου

“Ἐξῆλθεν ἀπὸ τῆς πλευρᾶς ὕδωρ καὶ αἷμα.” Μὴ παραδράμῃς ἁπλῶς, ἀγαπητέ, τὸ μυστήριον. Ἔχω γὰρ καὶ ἕτερον λόγον εἰπεῖν μυστικόν· εἶπον ὅτι τοῦ βαπτίσματος σύμβολον καὶ τῶν μυστηρίων ἐστὶ τὸ αἷμα ἐκεῖνο καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ. Ἐξ ἑκατέρων τούτων ἡ ἐκκλησία γεγέννηται, “διὰ λουτροῦ παλιγγενεσίας καὶ ἀνακαινώσεως Πνεύματος ἁγίου”, διὰ βαπτίσματος καὶ διὰ μυστηρίων. Τὰ δὲ σύμβολα τοῦ βαπτίσματος καὶ τῶν μυστηρίων ἀπὸ τῆς πλευρᾶς. Ἀπὸ τῆς πλευρᾶς ἄρα τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἐδημιούργησεν ὁ Χριστός, καθάπερ ἀπὸ τῆς πλευρᾶς τοῦ Ἀδὰμ τὴν Εὔαν ἐδημιούργησε. Διὰ τοῦτο καὶ Μωϋσῆς περὶ τοῦ πρώτου ἀνθρώπου διεξιὼν λέγει· “Ὀστοῦν ἐκ τῶν ὀστέων μου καὶ σὰρξ ἐκ τῆς σαρκός μου ”, τὴν πλευρὰν ἡμῖν αἰνιττόμενος τοῦ δεσπότου. Ὥσπερ γὰρ τότε ἔλαβεν ὁ Θεὸς τὴν πλευρὰν καὶ διέπλασε γυναῖκα, οὕτως ἔδωκεν ἡμῖν αἷμα καὶ ὕδωρ ἐκ τῆς πλευρᾶς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνέπλασε τὴν ἐκκλησίαν. Ὥσπερ οὖν τότε ἐν τῇ ἐκστάσει τὴν πλευρὰν ἔλαβε, καθεύδοντος τοῦ Ἀδάμ, οὕτω καὶ νῦν μετὰ τὸν θάνατον τὸ αἷμα καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ ἔδωκεν, ἐν πρώτοις δὲ τὸ ὕδωρ εἶτα τὸ αἷμα. ... Εἴδετε πῶς συνῆψεν ἑαυτῷ τὴν νύμφην ὁ Χριστός; Εἴδετε ποίᾳ πάντας ἡμᾶς τρέφει τροφῇ; Ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς τροφῆς καὶ συνεστήκαμεν καὶ τρεφόμεθα.

SC 50 bis, p.161-162; in TLG Catecheses ad illuminandos 3.17-19