{"id":7788,"date":"2020-01-23T08:57:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7788"},"modified":"2020-01-19T08:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T13:59:03","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-23-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7788","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"cddh9\" data-offset-key=\"7svdf-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7svdf-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7svdf-0-0\">\u201cGod in order to punish as well as cure our readiness for pleasure, established pain and death into human nature, to follow it everywhere and appear unwillingly. Because human nature prefers irrational pleasure, the equivalent pain, with all its innumerable hardships which cause death, has been invented in order to completely destroy pleasure.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"cddh9\" data-offset-key=\"23gc3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"23gc3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"23gc3-0-0\">(Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi+ on \u2018The Significance of Pain\u2019)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"cddh9\" data-offset-key=\"a0t4q-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a0t4q-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7789\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5-Returning-Home-landscape-Benjamin-Williams-Leader-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5-Returning-Home-landscape-Benjamin-Williams-Leader-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5-Returning-Home-landscape-Benjamin-Williams-Leader-768x495.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5-Returning-Home-landscape-Benjamin-Williams-Leader.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod in order to punish as well as cure our readiness for pleasure, established pain and death into human nature, to follow it everywhere and appear unwillingly. Because human nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788","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=7788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7790,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788\/revisions\/7790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}