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Complete collection and description: prayer of the holy prophet Nahum for the spiritual life of a believer.

O most praiseworthy and wonderful prophet of God, Nahum! Hear us, sinners and indecent ones, who at this hour stand before your holy icon and diligently resort to your intercession. Pray for us, the Lover of Mankind, God, may He give us a spirit of repentance and contrition for our sins and, by His omnipotent grace, may He help us to leave the paths of wickedness, may we excel in every endeavor, may He strengthen us in the fight against our passions and lusts; may the spirit of humility and meekness, the spirit of brotherly love and kindness, the spirit of patience and chastity, the spirit of zeal for the glory of God and the salvation of our neighbors, implant into our hearts. Abolish with your prayers, prophet, the evil customs of the world, especially the destructive and pernicious spirit of this age, infecting the Christian race with disrespect for the Divine Orthodox Faith, for the statutes of the Holy Church and for the commandments of the Lord, disrespect for parents and those in power, and casting people into the abyss of wickedness , corruption and destruction. Turn away from us, most wonderfully prophesied, by your intercession the righteous wrath of God, and deliver all the cities and towns of our kingdom from rainlessness and famine, from terrible storms and earthquakes, from deadly plagues and diseases, from the invasion of enemies and internecine warfare. Strengthen Orthodox people with your prayers, prosper them in all good deeds and undertakings for the establishment of peace and truth in their power. Help the All-Russian Christ-loving army in battles with our enemies. Ask, prophet of God, from the Lord for our shepherds holy zeal for God, heartfelt concern for the salvation of the flock, wisdom in teaching and management, piety and strength in temptation, ask the judges for impartiality and selflessness, righteousness and compassion for the offended, for all those in authority to care for their subordinates, mercy and justice, and to subordinates we command humility and obedience to authority and diligent fulfillment of their duties; Yes, having lived in peace and piety in this world, we will be worthy to partake of eternal blessings in the Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to whom honor and worship are due, with His Beginning Father and the Most Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Holy Father Naum, Guide my youth to his mind, Give him a blessing for ardent teaching, Strengthen his memory, awaken his efforts. Take his hand, drive away laziness and boredom. Let this youth be quick in understanding and quick in learning. Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Troparion to the Holy Prophet Nahum

Enlightened by the Spirit, your pure heart, the prophecies become the brightest friend: see for what is real, existing far away; For this reason we honor you, blessed prophet, glorious Nahum.

Prayer to all saints and ethereal heavenly powers

Holy God and rest in the saints, glorified by the thrice-holy voice in heaven from Angels, praised on earth by man in His saints: having given grace to each by Thy Holy Spirit according to the bestowal of Christ, and by that ordaining Thy holy Church to be Apostles, prophets, and evangelists , you are shepherds and teachers, preaching in their own words. You yourself act all in all, many saints have been accomplished in every generation and generation, having pleased you with various virtues, and leaving us with an image of your good deeds, in the joy that has passed, prepare, in it the temptations themselves were, and help us who are attacked . Remembering all these saints and praising their godly lives, I praise You Himself, who acted in them, and believing in Your goodness, the gift of being, I diligently pray to You, Holy of Holies, grant to me a sinner to follow their teaching, moreover, by Your all-effective grace, heavenly ones with them be worthy of glory, praising Your most holy name, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever. Amen.

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December 01 (14), 2015. Saints of the day, pray to God for us!

Right Philaret the Merciful; martyr Ananias the Persian.

Saint Eligius, Bishop of Noyon (c. 660); St. Anthony the New, Kiossky (c. 864; Greek); St. Elias, in the schema of John, Archbishop. Novgorod (1186), discovery of relics; St. Nahum of Radonezh (XIV century).

The Holy Prophet Nahum is the seventh (in the order of the Holy Books) of the twelve minor prophets. He himself called himself an Elkoshaite. He came from the tribe of Simeon, from the village of Elkes or Elkosh. According to the testimony of Blessed Jerome, Elkosh is a small village in Galilee, the remains of which he personally examined. Probably, after the Assyrian invasion, Saint Naum moved to Judea and prophesied there in the 700s BC. He was a contemporary of the prophet Isaiah (8th century BC).

The memory of Your prophet Nahum, O Lord, is celebrated, / so we pray to You // save our souls.

Enlightened by the Spirit, your pure heart/ prophecies are the brightest companion:/ see, as real, existing far away,/ for this reason we honor you, // blessed prophet, Nahum, the glorious.

Righteous Filaret the Merciful

Righteous Philaret the Merciful, son of George and Anna, raised in piety and fear of God, lived in the 8th century. in the village of Amnii, Paphlagonian region (Asia Minor). His wife, Theozva, was from a rich and noble family, they had children: a son, Joat, and daughters, Hypatia and Evanthia.

After the death of Righteous Philaret, his wife Theozva worked to restore monasteries and temples in Paphlagonia that had been destroyed during foreign invasions.

(Agia Lavra Monastery, Kalavryta, Peloponnese, Greece)

(Agia Lavra, honorable heads of saints Alexis the man of God and Philaret the Merciful)

Imitating Abraham in faith, / Following Job in patience, / Father Philaret, / you shared the good things of the land to the poor / and you endured their deprivation courageously. / For this reason, the Hero of God, Christ our God, crowned you with a bright crown, / Pray to him for the salvation of our souls.

In your patience you gained your reward, righteous, / and lived in perfection in the commandments of the Lord, / you loved the poor and pleased them, / but prayed to Christ our God, blessed, / to save our souls.

Kontakion of Righteous Philaret the Merciful

Truly, your all-inclusive purchase is visible / and by being wise, it is judged by all those who are wise: / for you gave what was long and short-lived, seeking the High and Eternal. / In the same way, you deservedly gained eternal glory, merciful Philaret.

Prayer to the holy righteous Philaret the Merciful

Oh, most wonderfully chosen one of God, the Merciful Filarete! Amnia, generous bread-giver, lamp of Orthodoxy, good and faithful servant of the Lord God! You followed Christ in the Gospel with all your heart and multiplied the talent given to you in wisdom: clothing and feeding the orphans and the needy; He brought strangers and beggars into his home, comforted those in their sorrows and sorrows, consigned the dead to their graves on their heaps; Having served everyone in every possible way, you have shown your faith in your deeds. Hey, holy servant of God, do not despise us, languishing with the sorrows of life and overcome by sinful passions. All the days, despondency and cowardice shake our faith, hard-heartedness and bitterness devour our hearts and cool our love; ambition and impatience corrupt our souls, and so, like beggars, we engage in good deeds in common. But You, Righteous Father, having mercy on us, beg Christ God to enrich our hearts with His Holy Spirit, heal our mental and physical ailments, and, like a thirsty field, water us with the bounties of His love for mankind; May we imitate your faith, patience and mercy, in piety and purity, all the days of our lives. We also pray to you, most blessed one, when the departure of our life is ripe, move us to unfeigned repentance, so that we may partake of Christ our Savior through His holy Sacraments and become heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, where in the joy of the saints and angels we will be honored and we will worship and chant the Trisagion Name: the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen!

Martyr Ananias the Persian

« Say prayers to God, for I see a ladder leading from heaven to earth, and angels who say to me: “Come with us, and we will lead you into a city full of light and joy.” ».

The time of martyrdom is unknown.

Saint Eligius, Bishop of Noyon

Eligius or Eloy was born near Limoges at the end of the sixth century. As a child, he was so skilled in manual labor that his father decided to apprentice him to a silversmith from Limoges. Within a few years he had no equal in the art of metalworking. His piety and virtues were valued far more than his talents; His frankness, prudence, gentleness and mercy were admired by everyone.

Venerable Anthony of New Kios

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mi cities of Byzantium, and then he himself will become a hermit.

After the death of his mother, John and his brother moved to Attalia.

Emperor Michael II appointed him ruler of the Kivirriot theme. John took part in suppressing the rebellion of Thomas the Slav.

At the age of 40, he took monastic vows with the name Anthony. After long wanderings, the saint settled on Mount Olympus in Bithynia.

After living as a hermit for many years, he entered a cenobitic monastery in Kios (Bithynia). The abbot subjected Anthony to severe tests and entrusted him with the most difficult work, which he obediently performed.

Soon the saint fell seriously ill and died around 864.

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People prayed to Saint Naum and asked him. What?

On December 14, the day of the prophet Nahum was celebrated, on this day they began to teach children to read and write. People prayed to Saint Naum and asked him. What?

December 14 is the holiday of one of the 12 prophets, the prophet Nahum. He is also called the Grammar. It was on December 14 that children began to be taught, and previously this day was considered Teacher’s Day. They invited a deacon into the house and put on a whole performance with prayers and bows. warm greetings.

And in their prayers they asked the prophet Nahum to guide them in their minds.

If on the day of the Holy Prophet Nahum they began to teach the children, then they asked for something related to their studies. This is all true, but it’s difficult to think of the word itself that needed to be guessed today, and for approximately such cases the people of St. Naum asked them to give them some advice.

Orthodox peasants celebrate every year on December 14, the day of Nahum the literate. He was one of the 12 prophets. Christians on this day prayed to Nahum with a request CONCERN.

In the 17th century, prayers to Naum were even printed in books and copybooks.

Prophet Nahum (Nahum) was one of the 12 prophets and preached during the reign of Hezekiah. He wrote part of the Old Testament. Very little is known about this prophet, but in Rus' it was believed that if one prayed to Saint Naum on December 14, he would enlighten the children during their teaching.

You can learn so much through all kinds of quizzes and competitions.

For example, interest in Saint Nahum would never have arisen if not for the question.

Orthodox Christians celebrate the day of remembrance of the prophet Nahum the Gramotnik on December 14th. He is considered the patron saint of students. It was to him that believers turned, and even now, I think, they turn to him, so that Father Naum would advise him, guide him to the mind, therefore the correct answer CONCERN. People have put together a lot of proverbs on this matter, here are some:

The day of December 14 in Rus' was called “wise” and they prayed to Saint Naum, asking him to “bring it to mind” - to enlighten, to teach. They said: “Nahum guides the mind.” It was this day, December 14, that was considered the beginning of school, and if a person was born on December 14, then he would be an excellent teacher.

Eight letter word - CONCERN.

Yes, indeed, December 14 is celebrated in Orthodoxy as the Day of Naum, who was also called Naum the Literacy, because it was from this day that children began to learn to read and write (December 1, old style).

At the same time, people prayed and asked Nahum to bring them to mind, and in other words - persuade.

On this holiday, believers prayed and asked Nahum to put them on the true path, to guide them to the right thoughts.

The answer in the quiz will be to overthink.

PA this holiday, starting from December 14, children were taught and asked that they would not be drawn into science, but would be interested.

On the fourteenth of December the day of St. Naum or the Prophet-Gramotnik was celebrated. On this day, the school year began for peasant children and it was traditional to turn to Saint Naum with a request - TO INDUSTRIATE.

Folk signs for December 14 - the day of Naum the Gramotnik

In the church on December 14, the memory of Saint Naum, one of the 12 minor prophets, is honored. He was born in the village of Elkosha, located in Northern Israel. An Old Testament book was published under his name, which quite vividly describes the political and religious state of Israel at that time. According to legend, Naum died at the age of 45 and was buried in his homeland.

In Rus', the prophet Naum was considered the patron saint of students, for which he was nicknamed the Grammar. In alphabet books and copybooks of the 18th century one could find a prayer addressed to the saint:

According to the old Russian tradition, it was on Naumov’s day that children were sent to study. They served a prayer service, asked for a blessing for the child and invited a “teacher” to the house, whose role at that time was played by deacons. In wealthy houses from the parish, “teachers” staged a real performance with bows and requests to teach wisdom.

In those days, few could afford to send a teenager to study. However, people understood that it was much easier for a literate person to become a leader. Even dreams in which the alphabet was seen were interpreted in their own way: if an illiterate person saw such a dream, then troubles and troubles awaited him, while for a literate person the vision promised happiness and prosperity.

It was believed that you shouldn’t eat during lessons, otherwise you’ll forget what you’ve learned; you shouldn’t leave a book open - you’ll forget everything you learned. And people also believed that the prophet Nahum would bring a bad mind to mind.

In the old days, the school year did not begin on one day, as it does now (September 1). Some children began school in August, others in September, and others on November 14, the day of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Rural children, helping their parents harvest the harvest, went to study on Naumov Day.

Previously, Teacher's Day fell on this date. In Rus', this profession was considered very important and respectable. Only a person with special abilities could become a teacher.

On this day they prayed to the saint to teach reason to the mind.

Prayer to Nahum for increased intelligence

Prayer to Nahum for help in studies

Prayer to Nahum the Reader

December 14: folk signs of the day

If the wind is north, then a strong cold snap is coming.
If the stars in the sky shimmer, then there will be a blizzard.
The barking of a dog can be heard muffled by the snowfall.
Clouds float against the wind - cold weather.
If on December 14th the month is in mittens (with side pillars), then frost will strike, and if it “lies on the back” - it will warm up.

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December 14 is the day of Nahum the literate. We will prayerfully help the children in their studies.

On December 14, the Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of the prophet Nahum, one of the 12 minor prophets. This holiday has come to us from time immemorial.

Nahum the Gramotnik. Day of the Holy Prophet Nahum.

In Rus', the prophet Naum was considered the patron of students and was called the Gramotnik. In the copybooks and alphabet books of the 17th century one can find the prayer: “Holy prophet of God Nahum, enlighten me and with your mercy teach me to learn good leadership,” which means “to comprehend the instructions well.” The people turned to this saint for help even when they needed reason in everyday affairs: “Prophet Nahum, guide us to reason.”

According to the old Russian tradition, from the day of Naum (December 1, according to the old style), they began to teach children to read and write, and it was on this day that children were sent to study. They served a prayer service, asked for blessings on the boy and honored him with an invitation to the “teacher”’s house. And the role of teachers was then played by clerks. In a house where there was at least a little wealth and where they decided to “make sense”, i.e. to teach my son to read and write, a real performance was played out. The child-loving parents of the “teacher” greeted him with bows and warm greetings, asking him to teach him wisdom: “Father Naum, bring him to mind,” and to punish laziness with beatings, seated him in the front corner, and then the father brought the boy to him and, placing him on sat on the bench near the teacher, whipped him, and respectfully stepped aside. The future student bowed to the mentor three times to the ground, and he hit him on the back three times with a whip. Then the mother entered the “game”. She sat down at the table with her son and the teacher, and he took out the primer. The teaching began, and while they were learning “az” - the first letter of the alphabet - mother, wailing and shedding tears, persuaded the mentor “not to bother your son too much with literacy.” The teacher, allegedly heeding the mother’s pleas, immediately interrupted the teaching. Then, having received as a gift a piece of lard, eggs, and most often a sieve pie wrapped in an embroidered towel, he left the house accompanied by his parents and, already at the gate, told them that the boy should now come to him himself.

On this day, compassionate mothers baked small cakes in the form of coins and gave them to their children and neighbors - for good luck and happiness.

Few in those days could apprentice a teenager, as they used to say, “underage.” However, they understood that it was much easier for a literate person to get out of eternal need. Even dreams were interpreted this way: for an illiterate person to see the alphabet in a dream means grief and unforeseen troubles, and for a scientist it means happiness and success in his enterprises.

The next day the student was sent to the teacher with the alphabet and a pointer. Each teaching began with three strokes of the rod. Even on the first day of meeting with the teacher, he had to reward each of the students with three symbolic blows of the whip. Children had to begin each lesson with three bows to the ground to the teacher, and were obliged to obey him unquestioningly.

You can’t eat during lessons, “otherwise you’ll forget what you’ve learned”; the book had to be closed, “otherwise you’ll forget everything.” They said that “the prophet Nahum will bring to mind a bad mind.”

As a reward for their efforts, father and mother presented the teacher with a loaf of bread and a towel, in which they tied money as payment for classes. But most often, classes were paid for with food: the student’s mother brought the teacher a chicken, a basket of eggs or a pot of buckwheat porridge.

In the old days, the school year in schools did not begin on the same day, as it does now, and the schools themselves were very different from each other. Some began studying in August, some in September, some on November 14, on the day of the unmercenary saints Cosmas and Damian, some on December 14, on the day of Naum the Reader... For rural children who helped their parents harvest the harvest, the time to study came only with the end of the harvest season. Naum the Literacy Day was previously considered Teacher's Day.

It was no coincidence that this day was called “wise” and they prayed to Saint Naum, asking him to “instruct” - to teach. They believed that “Saint Naum would sharpen the mind.” Popular wisdom says: A head without a mind is like a lantern without a fire. Without studying, you can’t weave bast shoes.

Prayers for the development of the mind in children and the enlightenment of the mind for learning

Prayer for a poorly learning youth

Lord Jesus Christ our God, who dwelled in the hearts of the twelve Apostles without hypocrisy, by the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, who descended in the form of a fiery tongue, and opened these lips, and began to speak with other tongues: Lord Jesus Christ our God Himself, sent down Thy Holy Spirit upon this child ( Name); and plant in the ears of his heart the Holy Scriptures, even as Thy Most Pure hand wrote upon the tablets of Moses the Lawgiver, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Prayer to the Holy Prophet Nahum:

Oh, holy servant of God, prophet of Nahum! Having fought a good deed on earth, you received in Heaven the crown of righteousness, which the Lord has prepared for all who love Him. In the same way, looking at your holy image, we rejoice at the glorious end of your life and honor your blessed memory. You, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring them to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us against the wiles of the devil, so that we may be delivered from sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, and live piously and righteously in the present We will therefore be worthy through your intercession, even though we are unworthy, to enter the good land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints, glorifying God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Prophet Nahum

Troparion, tone 2

In memory of Your prophet Nahum, O Lord, in celebration, we pray to You, save our souls.

Conspiracy for hard work and intelligence to Saint Naum

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Holy Father Naum,

Guide my youth to mind,

Give him a blessing for his ardent teaching,

Strengthen his memory, awaken his efforts.

Take his hand, drive away laziness and boredom.

Let this youth be quick in understanding and quick in learning.

Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

The icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Giver of the Mind” enjoys great respect among the people.

If children do not make progress in their studies, especially due to their inattention, you can turn to the icon of the Mother of God with prayer “ Giver of the mind”, as a source of higher wisdom and ask for increased intelligence and improved behavior.

To do this, read the text on the water and sweets placed in front of the icon, and read the text:

“Loach, loach, don’t curl, but fly away

Servant of God (name) don’t turn around, don’t turn around,

Better get busy. Amen.

At the end of all the actions, the water is drunk by the child and the sweet is given to him.

This image has two names, but one of them has stuck: “ Adding intelligence" But I would like to remember something else: “ Giver of the mind."

The history of this icon is extraordinary. Legend has it that during the time of Patriarch Nikon, a certain icon painter, frightened of losing his mind because he could not understand which liturgical books were saving, “old” or “new,” prayed to the Mother of God for admonition. The Mother of God promised to heal him, taking a vow to depict Her in the form in which She appeared to him. The vow was fulfilled. This is how the “Increasing Mind” icon appeared. In addition to this legend, there is interesting evidence from church archeology. In the Italian city of Loreto there is a holy house revered by Catholics, where a statue of the Mother of God carved from cedar wood and entwined with pearl threads is kept, which is a sculptural prototype of the iconographic image of the “Giver of the Mind.”

According to Catholic tradition, this house was moved to Italy in the 13th century from Nazareth. In those days, many Christian shrines were hastily taken away from lands captured by the Turks to places where they were not in danger of desecration. The Mother of God herself, appearing to the Bishop of Loreto, said: “My son, My humble home in Nazareth, where I was born and spent my youth, arrives on your shores.”

Along with Mary’s home, a cedar statue of Her, sculpted (according to legend) by the Evangelist Luke, was also brought to Loreto.

This shrine would have remained Catholic if our compatriots, the ambassadors of Tsar Vasily Ioannovich, had not seen it in 1528. They arrived in Italy at the invitation of Pope Clement VII, who was interested in Uniateism.

Among the Russian icons, painted according to Western models, are “The Eternal Council”, “The Old Image of the Lord of Hosts” and the Mother of Loreto, the image of which absorbed the features of the icon revealed in Russia and took its name.

This image is kept in the Transfiguration Church of the Savior in the city of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region. His list is in the Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg.

Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos before the icon of Her “Giver of Mind” or “Add of Mind”

O Most Holy Virgin! You are the Bride of God the Father and the Mother of His Divine Son Jesus Christ! You are the Queen of Angels and the salvation of people, the accuser of sinners and the punisher of apostates. Have mercy on us too, who have gravely sinned and failed to fulfill the commandments of God, who have broken the vows of baptism and vows of monasticism and many others that we promised to fulfill. When the Holy Spirit retreated from King Saul, then fear and despondency attacked him and the darkness of despair and a joyless state of soul tormented him. Now, for our sins, we have all lost the grace of the Holy Spirit. The mind has become fussy with vanity of thoughts, oblivion about God has darkened our souls, and now all kinds of sadness, sorrow, illness, hatred, evil, enmity, vindictiveness, gloating and other sins oppress the heart. And, having no joy and consolation, we call to You, Mother of our God Jesus Christ, and beseech Your Son to forgive us all our sins and send the Comforter Spirit to us, as He sent Him to the apostles, so that, comforted and enlightened by Him, we will sing a song of gratitude to You : Rejoice, Most Holy Theotokos, who has added wisdom to our salvation. Amen.

Troparion, tone 4 : O Glorious Mother of Christ our God, / good Giver, / preserve the entire universe by Your mercy, / grant us, Thy servants, wisdom and understanding, / enlighten our souls with the light of Your Son, / the only All-Singing One, // glorified by the Cherubim and Seraphim.

Kontakion, tone 2 : As the One who enlightens us with our minds, / we praise You, the Most Pure One, / the Mother of Reason, who holds the entire universe, / the Beauty of the visible and invisible world, // illuminating us with the rays of life.

Currently, on this day in our country, many kindergartens and schools hold various competitions, performances, and games dedicated to literacy.

I suggest that the whole family take a quiz on the Russian language. I wonder who will win? But in any case, stock up on a surprise prize for an expert in our native Russian language.

Your home results are very interesting. Write in the comments to this article.

Test yourself

1. Choose the correct option:

A. head of the library / libraries;

B. according to order/order;

B. get off / get off at the stop;

G. assembly hall with nine hundred and fifty / nine hundred and fifty seats.

2. Mark the sentences that do not contain speech errors; correct the mistakes:

A. How long can people use it?

B. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko attended the meeting.

V. There are no lazy people here, everyone is minding their own business.

3. Choose the correct genitive plural form:

A. no apples/apples;

B. five tomatoes/ tomatoes;

B. a pair of stockings/stockings;

D. no seats/seats;

D. children's socks/socks.

4. Insert the missing letter where necessary:

precedent; incident; slip; uh...skavator; escalator; ina...guration; legal...consultation.

5. Fill in the missing letters:

A. It’s frosty outside - put on a raincoat.

B. In the morning, the frost on the roofs sparkles under the sun.

B. There were different buttons lying alternately on the table.

G. Boys and girls sat at the table alternately...ku.

6. Which of the phrases has the meaning indicated in brackets:

A. Inappropriate praise / inappropriate boasting (“inappropriate praise of one’s own merits”).

B. Old addressee / old addressee (“former recipient of letters”).

B. Young parliamentarian / young parliamentarian (“a young man authorized by one of the warring parties to enter into negotiations with the enemy”).

D. New sketch / new sketchbook (“a new small board on which the artist places paper or canvas when he writes sketches”).

7. Match the words and their corresponding interpretations of meaning:

Indian living in India

Not every resident of India is Indian, but only those who profess the religion “Hinduism”

Indian Native American

8. Choose the correct combination in the following sentence: “The order was signed by (n...) who other than the director himself”:

1. A. Head of the library. B. According to the order. B. Get off at stop D. Assembly hall with nine hundred and fifty seats.

3. A. There are no apples. B. Five tomatoes. B. A pair of stockings. D. No seats. D. Children's socks.

4. Letters are missing in the following words: inauguration, excavator. There are no missing letters in the remaining words.

5. A. Drizzle. B. Frost. B. Mixed up. G. Interspersed.

6. A. Inappropriate boasting. B. Old addressee. V. Young parliamentarian. G. New sketchbook.

7. Indian is a native inhabitant of America. Indian is a resident of India. A Hindu is not every resident of India, but only one who professes the religion “Hinduism”.

1. A. Head of the library. The participle “manager” retains the same control as the verb “manage”: manager of what (instrumental case).

B. According to the order. The preposition “according to” is used with the dative and instrumental cases: according to what and with what.

B. In this phrase, the stylistically correct option is “get off at the bus stop.”

D. In compound cardinal numerals, all the words that form them are declined.

In complex numerals from two hundred to nine hundred, both parts also change during declension, with the first part changing as the corresponding simple numeral, and the second part as a plural noun.

P.P. about nine hundred

In complex numerals from fifty to eighty, both parts change during declension according to the model of third declension nouns.

P.P. about fifty

2. Sentences A and B need to be corrected as follows. A. How long can people use it? V. There are no lazy people here, everyone is busy.

3. The form of the genitive plural case is indicated in explanatory and spelling dictionaries.

4. Look at the spelling dictionary.

5. A. Drizzle - very light rain.

B. Frost is a loose snowy mass similar to frost that forms in foggy frosty weather on tree branches, wires, etc.

B. Mixed up - randomly mixing, mixing.

D. Alternately - alternating, alternating one with the other.

5. The correct options are indicated in the answers, and the meanings of these words are indicated in the test.

6. The answers indicate the correct relationship between words and interpretation of meanings.

8. The combinations are none other than; not anyone else, as contrasts matter, which is why the negative particle not is used in them. The opposition can be expressed not only by the conjunction as, following the pronominal combination by no one else, but also by the conjunction a, preceding this combination, for example: The order was signed by the director, and not by anyone else.

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There is no need to go to the field on the first day of winter. The winter crops have been planted, but there is no work. It's cold outside. Sit in your hut and warm yourself on the stove. Otherwise, get busy and learn to be smart.

But you cannot act without God. On the morning of December 1 (Old Style), on the day of remembrance of the prophet Nahum, the family went to church. After the liturgy, a prayer service was served so that the Lord would bless the child to study. They especially prayed to the prophet, in whose very name one could hear “mind” - Nahum.

“The Prophet Nahum will guide the mind,” they said in Rus'. And they called Nahum the Reader.

After the prayer service, the teacher (for example, the parish sexton) came home to the future ward. The first lesson was very short and very symbolic. This was followed by a treat. And the next day the student went to the teacher and the school day began.

Today we are not very accustomed to such a schedule of classes. Students already have a whole semester behind them and the test session is about to begin. But they pray to the prophet not only for the beginning of teaching, but also for help in comprehending science in general. So the students have another heavenly patron.

It is remarkable that Nahum’s prayers for reason are in no way connected with his life and arise solely from associations with the name.

It actually translates to “consolation.”

The prophetic Book of Nahum is dedicated to the fall of the great city of the then Oikumene - the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. About a century before Nahum's prophecy, the prophet Jonah went to Nineveh. Probably, Nahum’s words about God’s long-suffering are connected with this. Then the Ninevites repented of their sins and the city was saved. This time Nineveh died in 612.

We know almost nothing about Nahum himself. He is called the Elkosean. In Arabic legend, Elkos is Al Ovosh, a village near present-day Mosul in Iraq. Byzantine authors (Eusebius and Jerome) believed that Nahum lived in Galilee. There is an opinion that the birthplace of the prophet is Capernaum (“the city of Nahum”), mentioned in the New Testament. According to some evidence, Nahum's tomb was located in Ain Shifta , according to another opinion, it is located in Alkusha, where the Jews annually celebrate his memory for 14 days.

Since Nahum writes about the fall of No-Ammon (i.e. Thebes), which occurred in 663, and predicts the death of Nineveh (612), we can conclude that his book was written in the interval between these events. The reference to Nineveh as a flourishing city allows us to clarify the dates: in 630 and 624 the city was attacked by the Scythians, and in 626 the Syrians invaded.

Since the Assyrian Empire sought to subjugate and subjugate the states around it, their inhabitants lived in the hope that one day Nineveh would fall and they would gain freedom. Probably, the rulers of Assyria were cruel people: it is not for nothing that Nahum calls its capital “the city of blood.” Having conquered many countries: Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Babylon, Assyria devastated these lands, destroying dozens of cities and enslaving hundreds of thousands of inhabitants

The fall of Nineveh caused great joy and rejoicing in the world, which Assyria was mercilessly crushing. Even the pagans saw in the fate of the empire punishment for its crimes and sacrileges. In Jerusalem, the death of a huge city (whose length was 100 km!) could not be considered an accident. “Historical events only seem to be a motley chaos, while over all the clashes of contradictory forces and wills the single will of the Creator and Judge reigns,” wrote Fr. Alexander Men. The city received retribution for its sins, just punishment for the atrocities committed over many decades. Metropolitan Philaret explained that the biblical prophets do not depict historical retribution “as some special action of a punishing God, but as if only natural by the action of the sins themselves.” After Jonah’s preaching and repentance, the Ninevites did not reform, but returned to the path of evil, which led them to death.

Prophet Nahum, James Tissot

Holy Prophet Nahum - one of the twelve, so-called minor prophets, preached during the reign of the Jewish king Hezekiah, that is, between 727 and 698. BC e.

Name "Nahum" translated from Hebrew means "comforter". The name of the prophet was given to him by his pious parents during difficult times for the Jews as an expression of hope in God and faith in the promised Seed, which alone could console.

We know almost nothing about Nahum himself. He is called the Elkoshaite. In Arabic legend, Elkos is Al Ovosh, a village near present-day Mosul in Iraq. Byzantine authors (Eusebius and Jerome) believed that Nahum lived in Galilee. There is an opinion that the birthplace of the prophet is Capernaum (“the city of Nahum”), mentioned in the New Testament.

According to legend, he died at the age of 45 and was buried in his native village. According to some evidence, Nahum's tomb was located in Ain-Shifta, according to another opinion, it is located in Alkusha, where the Jews annually celebrate his memory for 14 days.

Book of the Prophet Nahum

The Prophetic Book of Nahum is a canonical book of the Old Testament, included in the collection of the Minor Prophets. Consists of 3 chapters and is a poem with many comparisons and metaphors. The literary merits of the book of Nahum are superior to any of the other minor prophets.

The book of the prophet Nahum is dedicated to the fall of the great city of the then Assyrian capital of Nineveh, located on the Tigris River, and with it the entire Assyrian kingdom. The prophet predicts the disasters that the righteous Lord will bring on this city and vividly depicts the final destruction of this great and strongly fortified city: “The Lord is good, a refuge in the day of trouble, and He knows those who trust in Him. But with an all-sinking flood He will destroy Nineveh to the ground, and darkness will overtake His enemies.”(Nahum 1:7-8).

About a hundred years before the prophecy of Nahum, he went to Nineveh (about 824 - 783). Probably, Nahum’s words about God’s long-suffering are connected with this. Then the Ninevites repented of their sins and the city was saved.

First chapter is an acrostic psalm (though incomplete) praising God the Judge. This chapter exalts the Lord's mercy to His people and His faithfulness to His covenant.

Chapter two talks about the fall of Nineveh. It especially emphasizes that this is a great city, the capital of a powerful empire. It is compared to a lion's den (the lion is a symbol of Assyria).

Chapter Three continues this theme, again describes the picture of the death of the city, indicating the reasons for this: temple prostitution, greed, cruelty. The fall of Nineveh is compared to how the Assyrians captured other cities and countries.

Fall of the Assyrian capital Nineveh

For a correct understanding of the Holy Scriptures, and especially the Old Testament books, the thoughts that their creators wanted to convey to us, it is necessary to have historical information about the eras, kingdoms, events and personalities described there. The book of the prophet Nahum, according to Metropolitan Mitrofan (Simashkevich), the author of a detailed exegetical study of this book, generally cannot be correctly understood without knowledge of the history of Assyria.

The ancestor of the Assyrian people was Assur (Gen. 10:22), the son of Shem (Gen. 10:21). Those. The Assyrians were Semites. Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian state, was founded by Nimrod, who was of Kushite origin, and therefore a descendant of Ham (Gen. 10: 6-8). This was around 2230 BC.

Nineveh

Nineveh included not one, but four separate cities, united by one wall 30 meters high (like a ten-story building) and 15 meters thick. There were 15 gates in the wall. The towers erected on it reached 60 meters in height (like a twenty-story building).

Already around 2000, information appears about the power of Assyria. And in 1230 Assyria prevails over Asia. In the period from 860 to 761. this country is increasing its power.

With all this, Assyria stood at a high cultural level, even higher than Egypt. The country was distinguished by a well-thought-out state administration, the art of irrigating fields, unusual imagination in decorating houses, and rich trade. Nineveh's convenient position for trade at the crossroads of all trade and military routes of Europe, Asia and Africa allowed Nineveh to accumulate enormous wealth, which led to the corruption of the people (Jon. 1:2). The capital of Assyria amazed with its power; unlimited wealth from all over the earth flowed into the treasury of Nineveh. But the inhabitants of the city “lived carelessly, saying in their hearts: "I, and there is no other but me"(Zeph.2:15), therefore the prophet Nahum proclaims: because “If you plot against the Lord, He will bring about destruction, and the disaster will not happen again...”

Assyria

Mighty Assyria built its prosperity on the blood of many peoples.History shows that Nineveh pursued a state policy of robbery. The Assyrians usually went to war against a nation and, having defeated its army, resettled the defeated tribes to another land in order to tear the people away from their roots, to destroy, if possible, their sense of national identity, making them more pliable and resigned. It must be admitted that the Assyrians were great warriors who excelled in the art of robbery and robbery. At that time, in general, many peoples led a predatory lifestyle, attacking other lands and tribes, but the sons of Assur, apparently, succeeded in this best of all. Their entire well-being was completely based on robberies.

The prophet calls this city a city of blood, full of deceit and murder. Nineveh seems to personify the enemies of the Lord; she has become like a harlot of a pleasant appearance, who deceives the nations and seduces them into worshiping false gods. Nahum mentions that Assyria brought a lot of grief to the land of God's people. He predicts that everyone who heard the news of the shame of Nineveh will applaud with joy, because its malice continually extended to all nations.

At that time, the most dangerous enemies of Assyria were Egypt and Ethiopia (2 Kings 17:4), but to fight them (Isa.20:7, Isa.19:16-17) it was necessary to capture the strong fortifications of Jerusalem.

Having conquered many countries: Syria, Palestine, Babylon, Assyria devastated these lands, destroying dozens of cities and enslaving hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. They brutally destroyed the strongest of their opponents, who could pose a danger to their rule: they crucified, burned, cut off body parts, sawed, etc. This is how another Assyrian ruler describes one of his campaigns: “I made a pile from the ears of the young men, and a tower from the heads of the elders. I burned the children, I ravaged and burned the city.”

Soon all of Judea was already in the power of the Assyrian king, only Jerusalem remained. Therefore, the Assyrian king Sennacherib sent his forces there. Then the Jewish king Hezekiah turned to God for help, and He miraculously destroyed the enemy: “And the angel of the Lord went out and smote one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of Assyria. And they got up in the morning, and behold, all the bodies were dead.”, and Sennacherib left threateningly. But the Jews were afraid that Sennacherib, angry at the failure, would gather an army larger than before and appear again (2 Chronicles 32:2-8).

Since the Assyrian Empire sought to subjugate and subjugate the states around it, their inhabitants lived in the hope that one day Nineveh would fall and they would gain freedom.

To calm and encourage the Jewish people, the prophet Nahum made his speech in which he predicted the final destruction of Nineveh, which would be destroyed by a strong flood of water, and the treasures of the city would be plundered and destroyed by fire.

When Nahum revealed to the people of God the visions he had received from the Lord, Nineveh was at the zenith of its glory. At that time, Nineveh was the capital of the most powerful state entity on earth - the Assyrian Empire. Naturally, people were not inclined to believe the words of the prophet; they probably considered this turn of events too incredible.

However, historians of ancient times testify that 23 years after Nahum’s prophecy, Nineveh actually fell. At the same time, this prophecy about the destruction of Nineveh from water and fire was literally fulfilled. Nineveh, besieged by the Medes in alliance with the Babylonians (about 612 BC), steadfastly withstood the siege for three years, and only the flood of the Tigris River, which washed away the city walls, allowed the enemies to enter the city and destroy it to the ground.

Fall of Nineveh

King Sardanapalus of Nineveh, despairing of his salvation and fearing captivity, ordered a large fire to be built in the palace itself, collected all his treasures here and burned himself along with all his concubines. This is how the terrible words of Nahum and the other great prophet Isaiah were fulfilled (Is. 30:33).

After this, Nineveh was never rebuilt; its location was forgotten until 1845, when an archaeologist named Layard found its ruins.

The prophet Nahum predicted the destruction of Nineveh, as a punishment for its iniquities and especially for the destruction of the kingdom of Israel and for the blasphemy of the Assyrian king Sennacherib against God.

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Having familiarized ourselves with the history of Nineveh, we have the right to ask ourselves the question: “What does the Book of Nahum contain for our spiritual experience?”

This book reveals God's character traits. We learn a lot about God's wrath.

The wrath of God is the initially inherent attitude of a loving God towards that which destroys the object of His love. The wrath of God is a reaction of destruction when absolute holiness comes into contact with vice, or the destruction by a loving God of that which destroys the objects of His love. Of course, God is a loving God, but when the cup overflows, when unrighteousness, injustice, wickedness, sins greatly increase, then God moves on to express another aspect of His character and reveals His wrath. The book of Nahum shows the power of God's wrath, how terrible the wrath of God is.

The prophecies of Nahum sound like a threatening warning to those who destroy the object of God's love. Those who practice iniquity will experience a transition from the love of God to the wrath of the Lord.

Traditions in Rus' on the day of Naum

“Prophet Nahum will guide the mind”- they said in Rus'. And they called Nahum the Reader. They pray to the prophet both for the beginning of teaching and for help in comprehending science in general. It is remarkable that Nahum’s prayers for reason are in no way connected with his life and arise solely from associations with the name. It was on the day of the prophet Nahum (December 1, Old Style) that, according to tradition, they began to teach children to read and write.

In a Russian village, everything happened like this: the father of the family negotiated with the parish clerk. On the day of Nahum, the whole family went to church in the morning, where after mass a special prayer service was served, after which they asked for a blessing for the youth’s education. Then the teacher came to his parents’ house, where he was greeted with honor. Training could be quite harsh for a careless student (the saying did not come out of nowhere: “on Naum’s day, “az, beeches” - take the pointer in your hands, “fita, Izhitsa” - the whip is approaching”). Therefore, mothers usually lamented for their children going to school. The teachers were thanked for their work, treated and given gifts.

The youth was given a patterned bone pointer, which was guided along the lines of the alphabet. In the copybooks and alphabet books of the 17th century, a short prayer was given to the prophet Nahum for help in teaching: “Holy prophet of God Nahum, enlighten me and with your mercy instruct me to learn good leadership.” In the 18th century, they even baked special gingerbread alphabet books, which children used to learn to read and write.

The memory of the prophet Nahum is celebrated in the Christian Orthodox Church December 1 (14) .

Material prepared by Svetlana Finogenova

Troparion, tone 2
The memory of Your prophet Nahum, O Lord, is celebrated, so we pray to You: save our souls.

Kontakion, tone 4
Enlightened by the Spirit, your pure heart, the prophecies become the brightest companion: see for what is real, existing far away. You tamed the lions and threw them into the ditch; For this reason we honor you, prophet of bliss, Nahum, the more glorious.

Prophet Nahum

Everything we know about Nahum comes from the book itself. He was from Elkos (or Elkosh), but we do not know where this city was located. At least four hypotheses have been put forward about its location, ranging from Judea to Assyria. Most commentators believe that Nahum made his prophecies in Jerusalem (at least in Judea), but perhaps he was one of the Israelites previously exiled to Assyria or “scattered among the nations” (Jer. 23:1-3; Ezek. 11:16; Joel 3:2).

The name "Nahum" means "comforter, comforter, comforter." The root means “to take satisfaction in vengeance” (Isa. 1:24; 57:6), and this fits Nahum perfectly. God's people are relieved and comforted when God takes vengeance on their enemies!

Nahum probably lived shortly before the collapse of the Assyrian Empire, which was sealed by the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC. e. - the event on which he focuses his attention. Apparently, Nahum prophesied after the sack of Thebes on the Nile in 663 BC. BC, as stated in 3:8. (See table on p. 217).

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In Galilee in the 7th century BC there lived a prophet who wrote a book of prophecies. Its writing dates back to 663 BC. e. Nahum predicted the fall of the once mighty Assyrian state with its capital in Nineveh under the blows of enemies and considered this a fair retribution for sins. In Rus', Naum is revered as the patron of education.

December 14 is the day of remembrance of the holy Old Testament prophet Nahum. He was born in Galilee in the 7th century BC and predicted the destruction of the Assyrian city of Nineveh. The book of the prophet Nahum is in the Old Testament. Prophet Nahum died at the age of 45.

Since ancient times, the prophet Nahum has been revered in Rus' as a mentor, assistant and patron of people of mental labor. In schools and colleges he was also called Gramotnik. In the old days, children began to be taught at home on the first of December (December 14, new style) or were sent to “teaching.” And before starting classes, they always asked for blessings from the prophet Nahum.

On this day, people were not just sent to school, but a certain ceremony was observed. The whole family went to church in the morning, where they served a prayer service, asking for a blessing on the youth: “Holy prophet of God Naum, enlighten me and with your mercy show me good leadership.”

The teacher appeared at the appointed time at the parents' house, where he was greeted with honor and kind words, and was seated in the front corner with bows. The father, holding his son by the hand, handed him over to the teacher with requests to teach him to be smart and to teach him by beating him for laziness. The mother, standing at the door, had to cry, otherwise the bad rumor about her callousness would have spread throughout the village. The student, approaching the teacher, was obliged to bow to the ground three times.

On the first day of the meeting, the teacher was to reward each of the students with three symbolic blows of the whip. Children had to begin each lesson with three prostrations to the teacher and were obliged to obey him unquestioningly.

Then the mother seated the teacher at the table and handed him a patterned bone pointer. The teacher opened the alphabet and showed the letters to the student. At this moment, the mother had to cry even harder and beg the teacher not to burden her son with literacy. The first teaching ended with one basic step. This is how the first lesson was symbolically held, which ended with the teacher treating him and wishing him all the best.

Teachers in Rus' were especially revered; their work was considered important and difficult. After his work, the teachers treated him and gave him gifts. The father rewarded the teacher with a dress or bread, the mother with a hand-embroidered towel. But most often, classes were paid for with food: the student’s mother brought the teacher a chicken, a basket of eggs or a pot of buckwheat porridge. The farewells and treats continued until the gate. The next day the student was sent to the teacher with the alphabet and a pointer.

In ancient and medieval Rus', children learned to read and write not from specially trained teachers, but from people inclined to teach, who knew how to read and write, priests and sextons who were left without a parish, monks who left their monasteries, wanderers who went to holy places in the summer, and in the winter, waiting out the cold in some village and, in gratitude for the warm corner and food, teaching peasant children, artisans ruined by unbearable taxes, literate peasants left homeless for some reason, etc. People like them they called it, there were quite a lot of “wandering teachers” even at the end of the 19th century.

The mass production of printed educational literature played a huge role in Moscow education in the 17th century. At the end of the century, the printed Primer of the monk of the Kremlin Chudov Monastery, Karion Istomin, became widespread.

Page from the ABC book:

How anyone wants to know the view,
in the first of these things you will write.
Whales are in the seas, cypress is on land,
young one, open your ears to your mind.
Sit in the chariot, fight with a spear,
Ride the horse, unlock the key.
The ship is on the water, and there is a cow in the house
And the kokosh is in demand and people are healthy.
Put aside vanities and idleness,
Listen to the bell, create others in the sky.

Since literacy training in the Middle Ages was of a religious nature, liturgical books were used as teaching aids - the Book of Hours, the Psalter, and at the end of the training - the Gospel.

Among our ancestors there was a tradition of starting any important undertaking on the Wise Day. It was believed that the prophet Nahum would definitely “bring to mind”, that is, he would help and suggest how best to take on a new business in order to get the best result.

Signs for Naumov Day

There is no such pagan or church holiday in Rus' with which various folk beliefs are associated. And of course they also exist on St. Naum. For the most part, our ancestors were worried about the fate of the future harvest, and therefore the main part of the signs is connected with the weather that settled on December 14th.

Strong cold gusts of the north wind warned the peasants that they should expect severe frosts in the near future, and in the summer - abundant grain production.

Traders preparing for a long journey paid attention to the sky. If it was all strewn with bright stars, then the journey should have been delayed so as not to get caught in a strong blizzard.

Residents of villages and villages listened to the barking of dogs on December 14. If it was heard dully and as if from afar, then heavy snowfall was to be expected in the coming days. The same sign predicted an excellent harvest of forage grasses.

Parents were happy if the child was born on December 14th. After all, the one who was born on St. Naum certainly turned out to be capable of any sciences and in adulthood made a good career.

Musicians also loved Naumov Day. They believed that the instruments consecrated in the temple on December 14 would sound in a very special way and would serve their owner for a long time.

Proverbs and sayings:

Naum will come and bring it to mind.

The Prophet Nahum will bring a bad mind to mind.

Teach your son to read and write, teach him to be smart, as we were taught, teach him - more often than not, whip him.

Nahum came, the winter wind blew.

A smart head feeds a hundred heads, but a thin head cannot feed itself.

Those who are good at reading and writing will not be lost.

The root of the teaching is bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Learning is light and ignorance is darkness.

Learning to read and write is always useful.

Unlearned or blind, lead wherever you want.

Prayer to Nahum for increased intelligence