Symeon the New Theologian
11th century · AD 1022 · Eastern & Byzantine · 61 passages
Background on Symeon the New Theologian
In his own words on 1 Peter
- 1 Peter 5:1
How will you be a partaker of Christ's glory if you refuse to be a partaker of his shameful death? It is in vain that you have left the world behind if you are unwilling to take up your cross, as he commanded you to.
DISCOURSES 27.11
- 1 Peter 5:4
Can death have any power over the souls which have been sealed by the grace of the Holy Spirit and the blood of Christ? Dare the spiritual wolf look straight at the seal of Christ the good shepherd, which he places on his own sheep? By no means, faithful brothers of godly mind!
DISCOURSES 2.5
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations — including the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers and the early patristic chain-commentary compiled in the Catena Aurea. Each quotation links to its source.