With the blessing of Archbishop of Samara and Syzran SERGYThe publication was prepared by the Samara branch of the NOOF “Native Ashes” Selected passages from the sacred history of the Old and New Testaments with edifying reflections of St. Philaret of Moscow. - Samara: NOOF “Native Ashes”, 2010. - 384 pp. This book was discovered in the ancient library of the Gorodets Museum in the house of Countess Panina. Saint Philaret is rightly called the Russian Chrysostom. He is also the compiler of the Catechism. Edifying reflections are the fruit of the saint’s spiritual wisdom and may well be perceived as instructions from a spiritual father in the difficult task of salvation. Like the Catechism, the book is addressed by the saint to a wide range of readers.ISBN - 978-5-98948-021-0 Original pdf - iz-svyaschennoy-istorii-vethogo-i-novogo-zaveta-s-nazidatelnymi-razmyshleniyami.htmlThe text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.