NaSt. Anastasius weSinai, munyori wechechi, anozivikanwawo saAnastasius III, Metropolitan weNicaea, akararama muzana remakore rechisere.
Mubvunzo wechigumi nenhanhatu: Apo muapostora anoti masimba enyika ino akagadzwa naMwari, zvinoreva here kuti mutongi ari wose, mambo nabhishopi anomutswa naMwari?
Mhinduro: Kubva pane zvakataurwa naMwari muMutemo, kuti: “Ndichakupai vafudzi mumwoyo yenyu” ( Jer. 3:15 ), zviri pachena kuti machinda nemadzimambo akakodzera kukudzwa uku akagadzwa naMwari; nepo avo vasina kufanira, vanogadzwa pamusoro pevanhu vasina kukodzera maererano nekusafanira kwavo, nemvumo kana kuda kwaMwari. Inzwa dzimwe nyaya pamusoro peizvi.
Apo mudzvinyiriri Phocas akava mambo ndokutanga kudeura ropa kupfurikidza nomuurayi Vosonius, mumongi wokuConstantinople, uyo akanga ari murume mutsvene uye akanga ane ushingi hukuru pamberi paMwari, akatendeukira kwaari nokupfava, achiti: “Ishe, makaitireiko iye mambo?” Uye pashure pokunge adzokorora izvi kwemazuva akawanda, mhinduro yakabva kuna Mwari, yaiti: “Nemhaka yokuti handina kuwana imwe yakaipisisa.”
Paiva nerimwe guta rine zvivi zvikuru rakapoteredza Thebaid, makaitika zvinhu zvakaipa zvakawanda uye zvisina kufanira. Muguta rino, mugari akashata kwazvo akangoerekana awira mune rumwe rudo rwenhema, akaenda, akagera bvudzi rake uye akapfeka tsika yemamongi, asi haana kurega kuita mabasa ake akaipa. Naizvozvo zvakaitika kuti bhishopu weguta iro akafa. Mutumwa waShe akazviratidza kumurume mutsvene akati kwaari: “Enda undogadzira guta kuitira kuti vagosarudza bhishopu anobva kuvatendi.” Munhu mutsvene akaenda akaita zvaakanga arayirwa. Uye pakangogadzwa uyo akabva pachinzvimbo chevatendi, kureva kuti mutendi mumwechete watataura nezvake, mupfungwa dza(bhishopu mutsva) makauya zviroto nekuzvikudza. Ipapo mutumwa waJehovha akazviratidza kwaari, akati kwaari, “Seiko uchizvikudza iwe, iwe une nhamo? Hauna kuita bhishopi nekuti wanga wakakodzera hupirisita, asi nekuti guta rino rakakodzera bhishopi akadaro.
Naizvozvo, kana ukaona chero mambo asina kukodzera uye akaipa, sabhuku, kana bhishopi, usashamisika, kana kupa mhosva kutungamirira kwaMwari, asi dzidza uye utende kuti nokuda kwezvivi zvedu tinoiswa mumaoko evadzvinyiriri vakadaro. Asi kunyange zvakadaro, hatibvi pane zvakaipa.
Kunobva: Φιλοκαλία τῶν Νηπτικῶν καί Ἀσκητῶν (Ἀναστάσιος ὁ Σιναΐτης), τόμ. 13Β, Ε.Π.Ε., ἐκδ. “Γρηγοριος ὁ Παλαμᾶς”, Thessaloniki 1998, p. 225 ἑξ.
