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إنجيل القدّيس لوقا 40-35:12
لِتَكُنْ أَوْسَاطُكُم مَشْدُودَة، وَسُرْجُكُم مُوقَدَة
وَكُونُوا مِثْلَ أُنَاسٍ يَنْتَظِرُونَ سَيِّدَهُم مَتَى يَعُودُ مِنَ العُرْس، حَتَّى إِذَا جَاءَ وَقَرَع، فَتَحُوا لَهُ حَالاً
طُوبَى لأُولئِكَ العَبِيدِ الَّذينَ، مَتَى جَاءَ سَيِّدُهُم، يَجِدُهُم مُتَيَقِّظِين. أَلحَقَّ أَقُولُ لَكُم: إِنَّهُ يَشُدُّ وَسْطَهُ، وَيُجْلِسُهُم لِلطَّعَام، وَيَدُورُ يَخْدُمُهُم
وَإِنْ جَاءَ في الهَجْعَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ أَوِ الثَّالِثَة، وَوَجَدَهُم هكذَا، فَطُوبَى لَهُم
وٱعْلَمُوا هذَا: إِنَّهُ لَوْ عَرَفَ رَبُّ البَيْتِ في أَيِّ سَاعَةٍ يَأْتِي السَّارِق، لَمَا تَرَكَ بَيْتَهُ يُنقَب
فَكُونُوا أَنْتُم أَيْضًا مُسْتَعِدِّين، لأَنَّ ٱبْنَ الإِنْسَانِ يَجِيءُ في سَاعَةٍ لا تَخَالُونَها
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 24:42-51.
Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.
Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into.
So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.
Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household to distribute to them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing so.
Amen, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property.
But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is long delayed,’
and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with drunkards,
the servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour
and will punish him severely and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.