The Lie

The Lie

Go, soul, the body's guest,
Upon a thankless errand;
Fear not to touch the best;
The truth shall be thy warrant:
Go, since I needs must die,
And give the world the lie.

Say to the court, it glows
And shines like rotten wood;
Say to the church, it shows
What's good, and doth no good:
If church and court reply,
Then give them both the lie.

Tell potentates, they live
Acting by others' action;
Not loved unless they give,
Not strong but by a faction.
If potentates reply,
Give potentates the lie.

Tell men of high condition,
That manage the estate,
Their purpose is ambition,
Their practice only hate:
And if they once reply,
Then give them all the lie.

Tell them that brave it most,
They beg for more by spending,
Who, in their greatest cost,
Seek nothing but commending.
And if they make reply,
Then give them all the lie.

Tell zeal it wants devotion;
Tell love it is but lust;
Tell time it is but motion;
Tell flesh it is but dust:
And wish them not reply,
For thou must give the lie.

Tell age it daily wasteth;
Tell honour how it alters;
Tell beauty how she blasteth;
Tell favour how it falters:
And as they shall reply,
Give every one the lie.

Tell wit how much it wrangles
In tickle points of niceness;
Tell wisdom she entangles
Herself in overwiseness:
And when they do reply,
Straight give them both the lie.

Tell physic of her boldness;
Tell skill it is pretension;
Tell charity of coldness;
Tell law it is contention:
And as they do reply,
So give them still the lie.

Tell fortune of her blindness;
Tell nature of decay;
Tell friendship of unkindness;
Tell justice of delay:
And if they will reply,
Then give them all the lie.

Tell arts they have no soundness,
But vary by esteeming;
Tell schools they want profoundness,
And stand too much on seeming:
If arts and schools reply,
Give arts and schools the lie.

Tell faith it's fled the city;
Tell how the country erreth;
Tell manhood shakes off pity
And virtue least preferreth:
And if they do reply,
Spare not to give the lie.

So when thou hast, as I
Commanded thee, done blabbing--
Although to give the lie
Deserves no less than stabbing--
Stab at thee he that will,
No stab the soul can kill.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Rev. Antony Pechersky [of the Caves] (983—1073) died 946 years ago on May 7/20 [23JUL, 15SEP, 11OCT]

Rev. Antony Pechersky [of the Caves] (983—1073) died 946 years ago today { May 7/20 } [23JUL, 15SEP, 11OCT]

11 октября - Собор преподобных отцов Киево-Печерских, в Ближних пещерах (прп. Антония) почивающих.

Антоний Печерский (983—1073) — основатель Киево-Печерской лавры, занимает особое место в сонме древнерусских святых и почитается Русскою церковью как «начальник всех Российских монахов», поскольку основанная им на Киевских горах Печерская обитель многие столетия служила центром и школой древнерусского монашества и просвещения для всей Руси. Именем Антония названы Ближние (Антониевы) пещеры Киево-Печерской Лавры.

To [a Mohammedan] Seduce the World...

Един есть истинный Бог и Господь наш Иисус Христос. Магомет же, в которого вы верите, был смертным человеком и необразованным, и в мире сем не сделал ничего хорошего, ни одного чуда не сотворил, в противоположность другим пророкам Божьим, каких имеем мы, христиане. Только вы почитаете его за пророка, а на самом деле он — богоборец и своими вымыслами и фантазиями привлек к себе простой и невежественный народ, так что сбылось предреченное в нем, что он «придет прельщать мир».

ново Мученик (Сеник) Иоанн Кальфа

Source

https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/02/saint-john-kalphes-neomartyr.html

One is the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ. However, Mohammed, in whom you believe, was a mortal and uneducated man, and he did no good in this world, he worked no single miracle, contrary to the other prophets of God that we, Christians, have. Only you esteem him for a prophet, while in actual fact he was a theomachist – and with his fabrications and fantasies he attracted to himself simple and ignorant people, so that what had been foreordained in him came true, namely that he "will come to seduce the world." 

New Martyr John Kalphas (the Apprentice, +1575)