Feast today, August 29: The Dissection of the Sacred Head of Saint John the Forerunner
“No, they have you, your brother’s wife.”
You are not allowed by God’s law to have your brother’s wife, whoever is still alive.
~Cuts off the head with a sudden sword,
The hand placed on the Lord’s head.
Ekadi amf’ ṃ Prodromou tamen auchena halkos.~
Words of the Holy Forerunner, which were stabs at the corrupt consciences of King Herod Antipas and Herodias’s illegitimate wife, who was the wife of his brother Philip.
Herod, not tolerating Prodromos’ controls, imprisoned him. However, at a certain birthday celebration, Herod promised with an oath to give the daughter of Herodias whatever she asked for, because he liked her dance very much. Then the bloodthirsty Herodias told her daughter to ask for John’s head on a plate. Which finally happened.
Thus, the glorious Forerunner of the Savior will remain throughout the ages an example to all who want to serve the truth and fight against corruption, regardless of dangers and sacrifices.
And this is what the 24 elders of the Apocalypse say to God about the corrupt: “it has come… the time of the Gentiles has come… and it corrupts them by corrupting the earth”.
That is, the time of the resurrection of the dead has come to judge the world and destroy (my God) those who with their corrupt life corrupt and destroy the earth.
Absolute
Ἦhos b’.
The memory of the righteous with judges; the testimony of the Lord is sufficient for you; indeed, you have shown yourself more respected than the Prophets, because even in the crucibles you baptize the one who is proclaimed; whence of the truth I proclaim joy to those in heaven, God manifested in the flesh , the airman the sin of the world, and granting us great mercy.
Heteron Apolytikion
Ἦhos d’. He understood quickly.
You are superior to all, of the Prophets truly, seer and Forerunner of the presence of Christ, Prophet you are born, from where and by Herod, you cut off your Karan, you led them to Hades, you proclaimed the ransom through John the Baptist, we yearn for joy.
Source: ekklisiaonline.gr
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