In Dahl's dictionary
church (inherent) true, true, or | everlasting, eternal, existing. Ever adv. Always. Complex words with this adverb are understandable on their own. Let us please the ever-blessed Mother of God. You are Mother, ever-blessed, ever-blessed Virgin, eternally. You gave birth to the sun of truth, Ever-Virgin! The womb is ever-virgin. Source of ever-animal drink. Aaron's rod, a green, unfading, ever-living flower. Lifetime abodes. You are magnified to God, like a great martyr, Min. Aug. 22. Ever-memorable, unforgettable. -remembered benefactor, ever-praised, -exalted, etc. Those who honor your ever-joyful memory. Brought(o)viti, glorify unceasingly. The essence, its enduring power and Divinity are visible. Ever-present, ever-existent, beginningless and endless being. Having foreseen his temporary death and imminent departure, and the heavenly things that were ever present, he left the city. The source of an ever-flowing river. Rejoice, ever-reigning city! The garden is ever-blooming; you have appeared, bearing fruits of virtues. Praise Martinia the honorable!
Meaning of the word everlasting
Wrapping herself in a shawl, Masha breathed through the open window and said that all this was unbearable, that we needed to leave, just run away from this city and this country, to save ourselves, that here all life still follows the laws of the primeval forest, animals should growl all the time, show everyone and all your strength, cruelty, ruthlessness, intimidate, beat, kill, here you always need to prove that you are stronger, more bestial, that any humanity here is perceived as weakness, retreat, stupidity, stupidity, admission of defeat, here even with You will never cross the street in a stroller in your life, even on a zebra crossing, because the one in the car is stronger, and you are weaker than him, weaker, more defenseless, and you will simply be run over, demolished, swept away, smeared on the asphalt, both you and your stroller, what Here, from time immemorial, there has been a cavernous, ferocious struggle for power, sometimes secret, quiet, and then they kill slowly, from behind, insinuatingly, sometimes openly, obviously, and then everyone is drawn into the bloody mess, then there is nowhere to hide, no wait, everywhere you will get an axe, a cobblestone, a mandate, and the whole country lives for a thousand years only for this fight, and if someone climbed to the top, then for him those below are nothing, cattle, feces, camp dust, and for staying there in their own chair, even for a day, even for a minute, they are ready, without blinking an eye, to cut the throat, rot, kill half the country with sapper blades, and all this, of course, for our own good, after all, that’s all they do there that they care about the good of the fatherland, and all this good of the fatherland and all this love for humanity - all these are just clubs to break each other’s spines, first the son of the fatherland hits a friend of humanity on the head with a piece of pipe, then the friend of humanity takes the son of the fatherland hostage and shoots him to the sound of a running engine in the backyard, then again the son of the fatherland releases the guts of a friend of humanity with caterpillars, and so on endlessly, there will be no limit to this blood, they can pull any cap - heaven in heaven, heaven on earth, power of the people, power freak, parliament, democracy, constitution, federation, nationalization, privatization, indexation - they will castrate any thought, any concept, any idea, emasculate, shake out the contents as if from a bag, stuff them with stones to make it harder, and again start swinging, hammering each other my friend, I’m still scratching my head, it hurts, and where to go? - in church? - so their church is the same, not to God, but to Caesar, if you don’t write a denunciation yourself, they will denounce you, sing hosannas to the tyrant, sanctify sin, and as soon as someone tries to remind them of Christ, as soon as they want to bring in even a grain of humanity, so he was immediately hit on the head with an ax, like My father, everything from under the stick, everything that was lying badly in his pocket, it was better to have nothing at all than to tremble and wait for it to be taken away tomorrow, everything for show, wherever you poke it, everything just on the outside, everything is a deception, but inside there is emptiness, rot, like they once cooked a tub of jelly, how they stuck it in a well to deceive the Pechenegs, they say, look, you can’t starve us, we draw jelly from the well, so since then ten For centuries this jelly has been slurping away, but they still can’t disentangle it, but having sinned on earth, God chooses to execute it with death, with hunger, or with the guidance of the filthy, or with a bucket, or with a caterpillar, or with other executions, if we repent, God will command us in it live, say to us the prophet: “Turn to Me with all your heart, fasting and weeping,” so that if we commit sins, we will forgive all sins: but we grow into evil, like a pig in the feces of sin, constantly repenting, and so we remain, plant flowers - they will trample them, erect a monument - they will throw them down, give money for a hospital for everyone - he will build a dacha, they live in shit, drunkenness, bestiality, darkness, ignorance, they do not receive a salary for months, they will not wipe away the snot of the children, but they will hang themselves on some Japanese rock , they say, ours, don’t bother, but what are they here? - whose is all this? - whoever has stronger fists and more meanness has grabbed it all, and if you have at least a little, even a shred of human dignity left, if you haven’t been broken yet, then they will break you again, because you haven’t taken a single step You can’t do anything here with your dignity, here even just a glance at the street is already humiliation, you have to become like them in order to achieve something, howl like them, bite like them, swear like them, drink like them , it’s as if everything here was created to corrupt, give it to this one, give it to that person, but if you don’t give it and don’t give it to him, you’ll be left, asshole, with a nose, it’s your own fault, whoever doesn’t know how to give gets nothing, who has nothing to steal, gets nothing has, who just wants to live honestly and not disturb anyone, will not even take a breath, and if you, God forbid, are not like them, if you have even a grain of talent, intelligence, a desire to learn something, discover something, invent, write, create, or simply say that you don’t want to be among these people, that you don’t want to belong to any gang, you will immediately become very smart with them, they will spit on you, grind you, pour slop on you, and won’t let you do anything, they will kill you in a duel, they will force you to eat gruel in the Vladimir transit center, you will stand at the metro with a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of vodka, they will burn your library, at school your child will be hounded by pimply bastards, in the army they will drive your son to the point where he will not only put a bullet in his mouth, but also He'll kill five more at the same time. “There’s nothing more to expect here,” Masha repeated, closing her eyes, squeezing her temples with her palms, “there’s a curse on this country, there won’t be anything else here, there never will be, they’ll let you eat, fill your belly to the fullest, but they won’t let you feel like a human here.” never, to live here is to feel humiliated from morning to night, from birth to death, and if you don’t run away now, then the children will have to run away, the children will not run away, so the grandchildren will run away. ("The Capture of Ishmael")
Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin
In Vasmer Max's dictionary
prisny “true; eternal”, commonly known as “always”, Old Russian. ever - the same, ever brother “half-brother” (Tale of Peter and Fevronia, Pam. old lit. 1, 34), Old Slav. prsn οἰκεῖος, γνήσιος (Supr.), prosno ἀεί (Mar., Zogr., Supr.; see also Dils, Aksl. Gr. 105), Bulgarian. vernacular “always.” Usually interpreted from *pri-jьstьnъ (from *еs- “to be”), for example. Miklosic (Mi. EW 105), Mladenov (523), Ilyinsky (AfslPh 34, 8), or from *prī-sto- from stand, become (as simple), but meaning. “standing nearby, existing” (Transform. II, 126) is not a satisfactory reconstruction; Wed Sobolevsky is also against this, ZhMNP, 1886, September, p. 151. However, the comparison of the latter with the friend also remains doubtful. Possibly, *prīsnъ (from *prīsknъ?) is related to Lat. prīscus “seasoned, worthy”, priоr “before” (prii̯ōs), Greek. πρίν “before”, Homer. πρί̄ν. See about these words Hoffman, Gr. Wb. 284; Walde–Hofm. 2, 363. Phonetically, cf. fresh, cramped. •• (Stang (NTS, 15, 1949, p. 350 et seq.) explains prisny from *pri- and *is; cf. Slav. istъ, Russian ist. – T.)
How did it appear?
Philologists have invested a lot of effort in trying to understand the origin of the sonorous dialect. And it was very difficult! When combined with the phrase “now and ever, and unto ages of ages,” the classic meaning of “forever” becomes “always.” However, there is a clear etymological ascent to the concept “true”:
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true;
- devoted.
The term borrowed only the first meaning from its progenitor. At the same time, for the first time it is mentioned as a name for a brother “half-uterine”. Based on the above, we can assume that the meaning of “ever” is revealed by the following words:
- uterine;
- continuous;
- eternal.
The speaker, giving such a characteristic, implies that a certain action was, is and will continue unchanged. Christian prayers in this sense refer to the existence of being, the universe. However, the conversation is aimed not so much at assessing time, but at the changes possible with its passage.
Abbreviations for prayers adopted in prayer books
In prayer books and liturgical books, some frequently used prayers and even small series of prayers are not given in full each time, but are indicated abbreviated. Such abbreviations - for example, the abbreviation “Glory, and now:” - are found in almost all prayer books. This not only saves space, but is also very convenient for experienced readers and singers. However, a novice prayer book can sometimes be confused by abbreviations that are not yet familiar to him. Therefore, we provide for our readers a list of the most common abbreviations that can be found in prayer books.
There are much more abbreviations of this kind in liturgical books: they are designed for the reader to have a firm knowledge of a very wide range of prayers and chants. In the Church Slavonic tradition, the indicator of such a contraction is the colon (:) - it plays here a role similar to the role of the ellipsis (...) in modern Russian writing.
“Glory, and now: ( or: “Glory: And now:” ) - Glory to the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
“Glory:” - Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
“and now:” - And now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Attention! In the Psalter, each of the kathismas - the twenty parts into which the Psalter is divided for reading - is divided into three parts, after each of which it is usually written: “Glory:” (these parts are therefore called “Glories”). In this (and only this) case, the designation “Glory:” replaces the following prayers:
Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, glory to You, O God. (Thrice)
Lord have mercy. (Thrice)
Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
“Alleluia” (Three times) - Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, glory to Thee, O God. (Thrice)
“The Trisagion. According to Our Father" or "Trisagion . The Most Holy Trinity... Our Father..." - the prayers are read sequentially:
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us. (Thrice)
Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Most Holy Trinity, have mercy on us; Lord, cleanse our sins; Master, forgive our iniquities; Holy One, visit and heal our infirmities, for Thy name's sake.
Lord have mercy. (Thrice)
Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done as it is in heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, just as we forgive our debtors; and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
The abbreviation “Come, let us worship...” should read:
Come, let us worship our King God . (Bow)
Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ, our King God. (Bow)
Come, let us bow and fall down to Christ Himself, the King and our God. (Bow).
Instead of the Theotokos, we usually Most Holy Theotokos, save us, and instead of the Trinity: Most Holy .
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Where can you say that?
In its direct meaning, you will never hear the term in everyday speech. It was not only outdated, but was also rarely used even at the moment of its greatest relevance. The word can be carefully woven into a clergyman's speech to give the rhetoric greater meaning.
Do not overuse the word “presno” - the meaning changes to disparaging in a certain context. Are you talking about failure or stupidity? Then the adverb can firmly connect the concepts of “loser” or “fool” with the person you are discussing. Very offensive and extremely impolite.
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Reading “Now and Ever” at home
A person who considers himself a believer not only attends church services, but also prays at home. The list of his prayers also includes the prayer text of the Brief Doxology.
Of course, time changes the spoken and written style of communication, but knowing, for example, computer slang or youth jargon, it is not at all necessary to use them everywhere and at all times, but only according to circumstances.
During earthly life, a person performs certain material affairs and responsibilities: without them it is also difficult to live in this world, and it is not always worth creating artificial difficulties for oneself. However, as it is written in the Bible, the Lord, when creating man, put his soul into him, and it was this fact, His act, that made him him. Why not thank the Lord for this: “and now” (now), and “forever” (always), “and to the ages of ages” (forever, passing on this wish to your descendants).
What has changed inside a person over time? Never mind. All changes are external, and this is how it always was and will always be.
And the concept of “doxology” is full of synonyms that are quite applicable in our everyday life, but we often call them “copper pipes,” and it is not at all easy to withstand the test of them. And whether they are great or small, it depends on whom.
Perhaps one of the most frequently used expressions relating to the procedures of church services is “ever.” The meaning of the word, which appeared in ancient times, has not lost its relevance today.
Video: Akathist to Jesus performed by a choir
In this video, the choir from the Valaam Monastery will perform an akathist to the son of God - Jesus:
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