{"id":6450,"date":"2019-04-28T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2019-04-05T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:00:58","slug":"st-nikolai-on-christs-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6450","title":{"rendered":"St. Nikolai on Christ&#8217;s Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bfchv\" data-offset-key=\"dv1sh-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dv1sh-0-0\">&#8220;He is the Light of truth, because He revealed in Himself the truth of the true nature of God and the true nature of man, the relationship of man to man, and the relationship of man toward God. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but His words will not pass away; for heaven and earth both came into existence by His word, and His word is from Him and with Him always, and will not pass away. He is the Light of righteousness, because He revealed the might of righteousness and the weakness of unrighteousness. He revealed this in the brightest light\u2014 by what He said, by what He did, and by what He experienced\u2014 and overcame the unrighteous ones. He has revealed it through His Church over the course of twenty centuries\u2014 through His numerous righteous saints and martyrs, for righteousness\u2019 sake. Righteousness is of God, and in the long line of history, it can never be defeated. Unrighteousness is of helpless beings. Unrighteousness quickly rushes out to the rampart with its triumphant banner, but at the same time, it is quickly thrown into the grave. He is the Light of life. His words illuminate life. His works illuminate life. His victory illuminates life. Especially His Resurrection, as the most luminous sun, illuminates life by its bright light and disperses death as a weak shadow.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bfchv\" data-offset-key=\"d96qm-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d96qm-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d96qm-0-0\"> &#8211; &#8216;Prologue of Ohrid&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"d96qm-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6451\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/posts-icon-pascha3-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/posts-icon-pascha3-300x245.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/posts-icon-pascha3-768x627.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/posts-icon-pascha3-1024x836.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/posts-icon-pascha3.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He is the Light of truth, because He revealed in Himself the truth of the true nature of God and the true nature of man, the relationship of man to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6452,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions\/6452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}