What is the subject of preaching?

The answer

St. Jacob of Sarug says, “Help me to become an active performer of Your word, that thereby I might make a good end to the course of my life. I will die and lay me down to sleep upon Your teaching; I will not depart from You, O Good Companion, even in death.”¹³⁵

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty

Notes

¹³⁵ St. Jacob of Sarug, Memre 154, IV on Sodom (Genesis 19).

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty, Catechism of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Volume 1, Books 1–3. First English Edition, 2023. Published by St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Sporting, Alexandria, and Queen St. Mary & Prince Tadros Coptic Orthodox Church, South Brunswick, NJ. Copyright © 2023. Translation and Editing: Youth of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Arabian Gulf, and Egypt.