Az irigység ellen
Prayer Against Envy
A plea for God to replace envy with true Christian love, concluding with 'Amen.'
Merciful, gracious God, who summed up your law in the commandment of love: put true Christian love in my heart, so that I may love my brothers and sisters, redeemed by your holy blood, as I love myself, and as members of that one body; that I may rejoice in their good as in my own, grieve over their afflictions as over my own miseries, and hate only the one who, through envy, cast the human race into sin.✦✦✦1 Amen.
Read the original Hungarian
Irgalmas, kegyelmes Isten, ki a te törvényedet a szeretetnek parancsolatjában foglalád: adj igaz keresztyéni szeretetet szívembe, hogy szent véreddel megváltott atyámfiait szeressem, mint magamat, és azon egy testnek tagját: örüljek az ő javokon, mint magamén; bánkódjam nyavalyájokon, mint tulajdon nyomorúságimon; és csak azt gyűlöljem; aki irigysége által bűnbe ejté az emberi nemzetet. Amen.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Matt.22.37-Matt.22.40;Rom.13.9-Rom.13.10;Gal.5.14 — And he said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' Matt.22.38 — This is the great and first commandment. Matt.22.39 — And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matt.22.40 — On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets. Rom.13.9 — For the commandments — 'You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet' — and every other commandment are summed up in this word: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' Rom.13.10 — Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Gal.5.14 — For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
- ↩Lev.19.18;Matt.22.39 — You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. Matt.22.39 — And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
- ↩1Cor.12.12-1Cor.12.27;Rom.12.4-Rom.12.5 — For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ. 1Cor.12.13 — For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 1Cor.12.14 — For the body is not one member, but many. 1Cor.12.15 — If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' it is not for that reason any less a part of the body. 1Cor.12.16 — And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' it is not for that reason any less a part of the body. 1Cor.12.17 — If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 1Cor.12.18 — But now God has placed each one of the members in the body just as he desired. 1Cor.12.19 — If they were all one member, where would the body be? 1Cor.12.20 — Now there are many parts, but one body. 1Cor.12.21 — The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." 1Cor.12.22 — On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are in fact indispensable. 1Cor.12.23 — and the parts of the body that we consider less honorable, we clothe with greater honor; and our unpresentable parts receive greater propriety, 1Cor.12.24 — but our presentable parts have no such need. Rather, God has composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 1Cor.12.25 — so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 1Cor.12.26 — And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 1Cor.12.27 — Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it. Rom.12.4 — For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, Rom.12.5 — So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Notes
- 1 ↩"csak azt gyűlöljem; aki..." names the devil: the one whose envy cast the human race into sin (cf. Wisdom 2:24). The old semicolon before the relative clause is punctuation, not a separate clause.
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