INTERPRETATION OF THE FIRST PSALM OF DAVID IN THE ASCETIC EXPERIMENTS OF SAINT IGNATIUS (BRYANCHANINOV) AS AN EXAMPLE OF CHRISTIAN ELOQUENCE
This article is devoted to the study of the heritage of St. Ignatiy (Brianchaninov) as an exegete and speaker on the example of the article «Blessed man» in the second volume of «Ascetic experiments». Using the philological analysis of the text, the author reveals the characteristic linguistic and stylistic features of the text, allowing the saint to explain to the readers in the most figurative and intelligible way the spiritual meaning of the first Psalm of David, as well as to express the Orthodox patristic point of view on the ideas of Western mysticism popular in the 19th century society. A textual study of the article «Blessed is the Husband» made it possible to conclude that it has not lost its relevance today and, without a doubt, is an example of church eloquence.