Hl. 2, verses 3 and 4. And there appeared unto them the tongues as of fire, and they were divided into one of them. And she was filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to speak.

Know from this account of the coming of the Holy Spirit, all peoples, nations, and tongues, who you are and where you come from. You are weak creatures (weak, I say, because there are creatures of strength — angels), creatures of the Spirit of God, moved and life-giving <?> by Him; Your thoughts are expressed in this or that language, not only because your parents and compatriots speak in this language and not in another, since in this case it is still necessary to assume another reason: why they speak in this language and not in another, but because it pleased the Spirit of God, the all-sustaining and all-ordering, to clothe your thoughts in such a language, and not another form. Language is the outer shell of our thought, since the body is the external, material veil of the invisible, spiritual nature of our soul. Thought is a child of the soul, in every way similar to its mother, in itself the same spiritual, intangible, not subject to any external sense at all; The word, or language, is a garment, a veil of thought, which becomes in it, as it were, visible and tangible. The Spirit of God is the Creator of our rational, thinking, and free soul. He could have made (as indeed he did in the beginning) that all men should speak the same language, and thus, by the unity of the language itself, show the unity of their descent from one Creator. But since this unity served to the detriment of people because of their depravity, the Spirit of God took away from their thoughts the monotonous clothing and gave them variegated, multi-colored, so that by this diversity they could not recognize the native, common and essentially identical thought of all. Thus, if a commoner in simple clothes is dressed in the clothes of a warrior, it is very difficult to recognize him as a former commoner, although his former appearance remains of his face, his whole head, and, perhaps, other signs. But thought is completely covered by its own shell – the tongue – in such a way that, if I may say so, it hides its face under it.

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Hl. 2. The apostles spoke the majesty of God in various God-given languages (v. 11). From this learn that with our tongue we must also glorify the greatness, goodness, and love of God. Rotten words must never come out of our mouths. The Word is the expression of the thought of a rationally free, immortal soul: let it always be prudent, free not for evil, but for good and immortal, that is, so that it does not die in the spirit of love, holiness and edification with which it is pronounced, like the all-creating thought of the Divine Spirit.

Hl. 3. On the healing of the lame man.

Art. 6. ... I have no silver and gold, but if I am an imam, I give you this: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk.

The gifts of God and of God's holy men are incomparably higher than our human gifts. But almsgiving also means a great deal in the eyes of God.

The speech of the Apostle Peter to those who marveled at this healing... About the power of faith in Jesus Christ.

Art. 19. Repent and be converted, that you may be cleansed from your sins.

Hl. 4, Article 12. There is no other name under heaven, given to men, in whom it behooves us to be saved...

Hl. 5, Article 29. ... To obey God is more befitting than man.

Hl. 7, pp. 48-50. The Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as the prophet saith: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what temple shall ye build for me, saith the Lord, or what place of my rest; Is it not My hand that hath made all this?

Hl. 8. Saul, the future Paul, the Apostle, deigned to kill a holy man such as Stephen. What wonderful transformations! The moral world is rich in such examples.

Art. 5 and so on. The Apostle preaches the gospel in Samaria, works miracles. About Simon the Sorcerer. Believers in Samaria; the sorcerer himself believes, is baptized, and lives with Philip; terrified by the powers and signs wrought by the hands of the apostles, he is amazed. The Apostles James and John bring down the Holy Spirit upon the inhabitants of Samaria, the believers. The madness of Simon, who thought to buy the gift of the Holy Spirit for money. Angel's words to Philip. He is on an empty road from Jerusalem to Gaza. At the word of the Holy Spirit, Philip approached the chariot of the eunuch of the Ethiopian queen Candace, who was returning from Jerusalem, and molested her. He hears that the eunuch reads a passage from the prophet Isaiah: "Like a sheep to the slaughter... He asks if he understands what he is reading. Negative. Philip preaches the gospel of Jesus. The Kazhennik crosses himself. The Holy Spirit attacks the clerk, and the Angel of the Lord carries away Philip, who soon finds himself in Azot.