A Spiritual Psalter
or Reflections on God

from the writings of
Saint Ephraim the Syrian

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Life’s lessons: Beatitudes

Blessed is he who contemplates the multitudes who rest in their graves and has rejected all fœtid lust, for he will rise in glory when the heavenly trumpet is sounded to rouse all of the sons of men.

Blessed is he who hopes not on man, but on the Lord, Who is coming again with great glory to pass righteous judgment on the universe, for he will be like unto a tree growing by the waterside, and will bring forth fruit without ceasing.

Blessed is he whose mind has through grace become like a cloud full of rain watering the souls of mortals that they might cultivate the fruits of life, for grace will give him eternal praise.

Blessed is he who ever exercises restraint as God wills, for in the day of judgment God Himself will defend him. He will inherit the bridal chamber and will meet the Bridegroom with joy and gladness.

Blessed is he who has hated and left behind all the secular ways of men, whose every thought is about the one God.

Blessed is he who has hated pernicious sin and been repelled by it, he who has loved instead the one good and man-befriending God.

Blessed is he who on earth has become like unto a heavenly angel and imitates the seraphim, whose thoughts are ever blameless.

Blessed is he who has become blameless before God and cleansed of all defilement — of wicked thoughts and deeds.

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From A Spiritual Psalter or Reflections on God, compiled from the works of Saint Ephraim the Syrian.

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