{"id":5134,"date":"2018-07-20T12:25:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2018-07-12T08:26:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:26:45","slug":"elder-ephraim-of-arizona-on-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5134","title":{"rendered":"Elder Ephraim of Arizona on &#8216;Real&#8217; Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"evhtl\" data-offset-key=\"a3pv0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a3pv0-0-0\">&#8220;Everything in this vain world will pass. The world and life are a fair, and each person can buy eternal life with the \u201cmoney\u201d of his life. How wise is the person who spends his money\u2014his life\u2014buying whatever he will need for the hour of death and the tribunal of God! Let us buy precious things that are pleasing to the great King: confession, humility, purity of soul and body from carnal sins, godly love, and keeping ourselves far from criticizing others, idle talk, lying, etc. When we master all this, we shall be wealthy in God\u2019s blessed land. \u201cVanity of vanities; all is vanity\u201d in this world, my child. This is what the wise Solomon cried out after he had tasted beyond satiety all the pleasures of the senses. He did not deprive his heart of any of the pleasures, and the end of all this was decay and destruction.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"evhtl\" data-offset-key=\"b8nn6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"b8nn6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"b8nn6-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018Counsels from the Holy Mountain\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"b8nn6-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5135\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0293-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0293-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0293-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0293-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0293.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everything in this vain world will pass. The world and life are a fair, and each person can buy eternal life with the \u201cmoney\u201d of his life. How wise is [&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-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","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=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}