{"id":14103,"date":"2024-07-15T07:17:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14103"},"modified":"2024-07-14T07:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T11:18:26","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-july-15-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14103","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for July 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fnvo1\" data-offset-key=\"dr17k-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dr17k-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dr17k-0-0\">&#8220;Let us say, that there are two people sitting at a table, eating. In front of them is a plate with 10 apricots. If one, because of his gluttony, eats 7, and leaves only 3 for the other, then this is injustice. But if he says: &#8216;Listen: there are two of us, and there are 10 apricots. Consequently, each one should get five.&#8217; If he eats 5, leaving the other 5 to his companion, then he will act fairly, that is, according to human truth&#8230;But if one of them sees that the other one likes apricots, and, pretending that he does not like them, eats only one-two, and tells his friend: &#8221; Brother, eat the rest of the apricots, for I do not like them very much,&#8221; \u2014 then he will act according to Divine truth.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fnvo1\" data-offset-key=\"2itiv-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2itiv-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2itiv-0-0\">(Elder St Paisios of Mt Athos, quote from fatheralexander Missionary Leaflet) <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"2itiv-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14104\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/t4h-1-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/t4h-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/t4h-1-480x320.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/t4h-1.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let us say, that there are two people sitting at a table, eating. In front of them is a plate with 10 apricots. If one, because of his gluttony, eats [&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-14103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14105,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14103\/revisions\/14105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}