What is God's wrath? "God's wrath. God's punishment is the instruction of the free to salvation.
The earth shook and shook, the foundations of the mountains trembled and moved, for [God] was angry; smoke went up from his anger, and out of his mouth a consuming fire; hot coals fell from Him. He bowed the heavens and descended, and darkness was under His feet. And fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the universe were revealed from Your terrible voice, O Lord, from the breath of the spirit of Your wrath. (Ps. 17:8-16).
He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who does not believe in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. (John 3:36).
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth with unrighteousness. (Rom. 1:18).
What is the wrath of God? The question seems to be simple, and yet it has its own depth and mystery. This is because God’s anger and human anger known to all have much in common: it kindles, it burns, anger is cruel, ferocious, indomitable, it cannot be extinguished by many waters, vengeance is committed in anger ... At the same time, God’s anger is righteous and holy, for everything that comes from the Lord is holy and perfect (James 1:17); but the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God (James 1:20). But this opposition just helps to understand the essence of the phenomenon, to derive its definition - anger is a judgment that belongs exclusively to God: "There is only one Legislator and Judge, who can save and destroy; and who are you, who judge another?" James 4:12.
From the beginning of creation, God judged. Thus, Adam was expelled from the presence of God because he had taken into himself someone else's word, the lie of the serpent, and by believing in this lie, he showed disbelief in God, His word. And further, throughout the centuries, the judgments of God overtook human society for exactly the same reason. God told Moses: go and do this and that... Moses' fear is very understandable for us, his uncertainty and doubts that he will cope with the task, and he answers: I am not verbal... And as a human being we understand him, but this is not so God sees: Moses showed UNBELIEVE to the word of God! "And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Have you not got Aaron the Levite? " Exodus 4:14.
This is where you need to understand the main thing: between God and a person (people), there is only one condition for condemnation - unbelief. It entails God's wrath and just punishment. Because God looks at His creation with the full right of His possession of it, so that a person, with all his free will, must, simply must absolutely believe in his Lord. This is what belongs to Him. God needs nothing more from man. He does not need gifts, He does not require a person to do anything for Him. Only faith. Therefore, the first commandment, the fulfillment of which the Lord God demanded from His people, is: "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me" Exodus 20:3. To accept another god is to express unbelief in the true God. Therefore, we see: "And Israel cleaved to Baal Pegor. And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel" Numbers 25:3. The sequence is always the same: disbelief - jealousy - anger - judgment - punishment.
Even when the Lord condescends to human weakness, and by this condescension makes a concession to a person or society, this spiritual law of judgment for unbelief continues to operate. The people asked for meat, began to murmur aloud to the Lord, and He descended: the east wind overtook the quails in the camp, but ..."... His anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord was kindled among them, and began to destroy the end of the camp.... The meat was still in their teeth and had not yet been eaten, when the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.Numbers 11:1-33. Unbelief, expressed by grumbling, could not remain without judgment; the court expressed itself in anger; anger is a punishment. The Lord did not judge His people for meat, which He Himself gave them, for unbelief, which will never go unpunished.
Especially when God made a covenant with His people. Moses presented this covenant to the people, explaining in detail each of its points, interpreting each commandment. They could not but know or not understand that out of their unbelief they were betraying the Lord. But disbelief in God itself closed their eyes, hardened their hearts, and they changed: they served other gods. And from the Lord came judgment and the fury of His anger, a cruel punishment for the people:"With alien gods they irritated Him and with their abominations [their] angered Him: they offered sacrifices to demons, and not to God, to gods whom they did not know, new ones who came from neighbors and whom your fathers did not think about" Deut.32: 16-17 . “And all the nations will say, Why did the Lord do this to this land? What great fury of His wrath! went and began to serve other gods and worship them, gods whom they did not know and whom He did not appoint them: therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled on this land, and He brought on it all the curses [of the covenant] written in this book [of the law] "Tuesday 29:24-27.
He is the Creator, and by the right of the Creator, a person is required to have perfect faith in every word of the Lord, regardless of any circumstances, and if this faith is not perfect and absolute, then judgment comes on a person. Everyone knew that no one but sons of Kohath had no right to touch the ark of the covenant. But when they were transporting the shrine to the city of David in a chariot, which had already violated the rule, it swayed, and Uzzah took hold of it, for the oxen bent over it. It would seem that in the best of intentions, Oz came to the rescue so that the ark of the covenant would not fall from the chariot, but God does not appreciate the "best intentions", He appreciates faith in the word that everyone knew ( Numbers 4:15,19; 7:9). AND: "The Lord was angry with Uzzah, and God struck him there for his boldness, and he died there by the ark of God" 2 Sam. 6:7.
Job's friends also spoke in the "best of intentions", trying to convince him that God expects repentance from him, confession of sins and ungodliness, for which, according to friends, Job suffered. But they didn't really understand what was happening. They did not know God's providence, did not understand His will, and thus showed unbelief in God: their thoughts gave birth not to mercy pleasing to the Lord, but to judgment, to which they had no right. "And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken those words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: My wrath burns against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me so well as My servant Job" Job.42:7 . It is wrong to talk about God, not to know Him, not to understand - there is unbelief, for which anger, judgment and punishment come.
What is this judgment, and what is His punishment? He chooses the Assyrians, a warlike and cruel people, and sends them to those whose sins have already filled the measure: "O Assyrian, the rod of My wrath! and the scourge in his hand is My indignation! I will send him against the wicked people and against the people of My wrath, I will give him command to plunder and get booty and trample him like mud in the streets" Is.10:5-6. At other times, He chooses Nebuchadnezzar, and with it, as a military tool, He humbles and punishes His people, as well as many neighboring pagan peoples. And he says to Babylon: "You are with Me - a hammer, a weapon of war; with you I struck nations and with you I destroyed kingdoms" Jer.51:20. And humanity sees in all this ... history, while God rules the world, judges, and by His judgment directs peoples to a goal that only His providential gaze sees. Thus, millennium after millennium, the history of peoples draws closer and closer to that day which Scripture calls "the day of the Lord," which is already in the full sense the day of wrath for the whole Earth: day of the Lord; then even the bravest will cry out bitterly! The day of wrath is this day, the day of affliction and distress, the day of desolation and destruction, the day of darkness and gloom, the day of cloud and darkness, the day of trumpets and shouts of abuse against fortified cities and high towers. And I I will oppress the people, and they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord, and their blood will be scattered like dust, and their flesh like dung, neither their silver nor their gold can save them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. and the whole earth will be devoured by the fire of His jealousy, for destruction, and, moreover, sudden, He will make over all the inhabitants of the earth" Zeph.1: 14-18.
"They come from a distant country, from the end of heaven, the Lord and the instruments of His wrath to crush the whole earth. Wail, for the day of the Lord is near, coming like a destructive force from the Almighty. Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, fierce, with wrath and burning fury to make the earth with a wilderness, and destroy its sinners from it. The stars of heaven and the luminaries give no light from themselves; the sun is darkened at its rising, and the moon does not shine with its light. I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquities, and I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud And I will put down the arrogance of the oppressors; I will make people more precious than pure gold, and men more precious than the gold of Ophir. For this I will shake the sky, and the earth will be moved from its place because of the wrath of the Lord of hosts, in the day of His burning wrath "Is.13:5 -13.
"I will punish the world for evil" - what kind of evil is this, for which the Lord will punish? This evil is described in Romans. And it does not mean that the person was not kind and did not, for example, do a lot of alms, but again it is said about faith in the truth, faith in God: “But, according to your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of anger. and the revelation of righteous judgment from God, who will reward everyone according to his deeds: to those who, by perseverance in good deeds, seek glory, honor, and immortality, eternal life; but to those who persist and do not obey the truth but indulge in unrighteousness - wrath and wrath "Rom. his faith, i.e., works are here called what a person believed in his life. Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" John 6:28-29.
Therefore, if anyone tries to "be good and right" before God, such deeds go against the faith of the New Testament, which is the death of the old man and the rebirth of a new creature. And only those believers who accepted this death for sin, for the law, for the world, gave themselves up to the leading of the Holy Spirit - will be able to escape judgment in the day of His burning wrath: "Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you, hide yourself for a moment, until the wrath passes; for, behold, the Lord comes out of his dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will reveal the blood it has swallowed up and will no longer hide its slain "Is.26: 20-21. "Because God has not determined us to be angry, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ" 1 Thessalonians 5:9.
Have we thought about why it is impossible for a person to see the face of God? The answer here is simple: God is holy, and only a saint can see His face. Holiness is achieved not by doing good deeds, not by keeping oneself from evil, not by prayers and keeping the commandments, but by union with God in one Spirit (1 Cor. 6:17), which is possible ONLY for those who are freed from the law of sin and death (Rom. 8: 1 -2) through acceptance by faith of death with Christ. For all others, the face of the Lord at His Second Coming will be a sizzling instrument of His judgment on sinful mankind: "And when He opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became dark as sackcloth, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree, shaken by a strong wind, drops its unripe figs. And the sky hid, rolled like a scroll; and every mountain and island was moved from their places. And the kings of the earth, and the nobles, and the rich, and the commanders of thousands, and The mighty, and every slave, and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the ravines of the mountains, and they say to the mountains and stones, Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of His wrath has come, and who can stand ?" Rev. 6:12.17.
White church. December 2014
Operation Wrath of God is a Mossad operation to find and destroy Palestinian terrorists from the Black September organization involved in organizing and carrying out the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics in 1972, as well as members of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), who were responsible for taking hostages. The operation began in the fall of 1972 and lasted over 20 years.
Prerequisites:
Immediately after the hostage-taking, Israel offered to involve its special forces, which had relevant experience, in their release, but the West German side decided to manage on its own and sent its police units to Munich. The assault failed and all the hostages, as well as five of the eight terrorists, died. Despite the subsequent appeal of the Israeli government to the world community with a demand to adopt "relevant resolutions and start world war terror”, most of the countries limited themselves to expressing condolences.
Israel demanded revenge: “They talked about revenge ... in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem cafes. Respectable university professors called for revenge from their chairs. Revenge was discussed at an emergency meeting of the government. In this situation, the Israeli government decided to search for and destroy all those involved in this terrorist act.
The phrase of Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, the head of the Mossad after the terrorist attack in Munich, "Send the boys", is widely known, which has become semi-legendary. Golda instructed Zvi Zamir to compile a list of targets, which could include not only those who carried out the terrorist attack in Munich or were members of Black September. The main goal was to eliminate the entire terrorist network in Europe. Many of these targets were classified residents.
Execution:
The first of the alleged organizers of the attack, Abdel Wail Zuyter, was destroyed on October 16, 1972. By June 1973, 13 of the 17 on the list had been killed. The leader of Black September, Abu Ayyad, was killed by his associates in 1991, 19 years after the Munich action.
During the execution of the operation in Lebanon and Norway, several outsiders who were not involved in terrorism were killed. So, in Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad agents killed the waiter Ahmed Bouchiki (Moroccan by origin), in front of his pregnant wife, when they were returning home from the cinema. Agents confused him with Ali Hassan Salameh, leader of the Black September group. Some Mossad agents were detained by the Norwegian police for this murder and received prison terms of 2.5 to 5 years, others, including the leader, managed to escape. However, none of the convicts spent more than 22 months in prison, they were later amnestied and deported to Israel. The Israeli government paid compensation to the family of the deceased waiter, but refused to acknowledge responsibility for the murder.
The task was not completed completely, since the ideologist and organizer of the terrorist attack, Abu Daud, managed to remain unharmed after several attempts on his life. In 1993, Israel allowed Abu Daoud to visit the West Bank, and in 1996 he visited the Gaza Strip, where he attended a meeting of the PLO. Abu Daoud died at the Damascus Andalus Hospital on July 3, 2010, at the age of 73.
Wrath of God- Divine action, produced as a reaction to, aimed at suppressing evil, subjectively perceived by rationally free beings, the objects of this action, as anger.
Does it change by pouring out wrath on the sinner?
Unlike human anger, which is characterized by the excitement of the irritable power of the soul, and sometimes by the loss of spiritual balance, the anger of God is never the result of a change in His inner state. God is not changed (). This means that He Himself does not change Himself, and nothing can change Him. If God, being angry, changed in emotions or inner mood, this would signify that He is conditioned by dependence on sinners, that He is not unlimited, not original, not absolute, not blessed, not free and not omnipotent.
What is the difference between human wrath and the wrath of God?
Human anger arises as a psycho-physiological reaction to the discrepancy between the actions of the person who serves as the object of irritation, the position of the one in whom anger is actually ignited. Sometimes this position is fair, but sometimes it is not. In addition, human anger often flares up spontaneously and often gets out of control.
God never acts contrary to justice. God's wrath is always righteous and always directed to the good of the one on whom it is poured out. God never gets out of balance, He is always equal to Himself, always the same. He knows about any human or demonic crime from eternity, as well as how He will react to every sinful act, every sinful thought.
Why is God's wrath called wrath?
Human judgment and punishment is often accompanied or even provoked by the expression of anger. By analogy with human judgment, God's judgment is also compared with wrath. In reality, God's punishment only outwardly looks like wrath. But in fact, in the exact sense of the word, God has never had any outbursts of anger and never will.
In the same understanding, one should also refer to the expression: "to anger God." To anger God does not mean to bring Him out of a state of peaceful rest, but it means to call, in relation to oneself, His righteous judgment.
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An excerpt characterizing the Wrath of God (Mossad operation)
The reason for the confusion was that during the movement of the Austrian cavalry, marching on the left flank, the higher authorities found that our center was too far from the right flank, and the entire cavalry was ordered to move to the right side. Several thousand cavalry advanced ahead of the infantry, and the infantry had to wait.Ahead there was a clash between an Austrian column leader and a Russian general. The Russian general shouted, demanding that the cavalry be stopped; the Austrian argued that it was not he who was to blame, but the higher authorities. Meanwhile, the troops stood, bored and discouraged. After an hour's delay, the troops finally moved on and began to descend downhill. The mist that dispersed on the mountain only spread thicker in the lower parts, where the troops descended. Ahead, in the fog, one shot, another shot rang out, at first awkwardly at different intervals: a draft ... tat, and then more and more smoothly and more often, and the affair over the Goldbach River began.
Not expecting to meet the enemy below over the river and accidentally stumbling upon him in the fog, not hearing a word of inspiration from the highest commanders, with the consciousness spreading through the troops that it was too late, and, most importantly, in thick fog not seeing anything ahead and around them, the Russians lazily and slowly exchanged fire with the enemy, moved forward and stopped again, not receiving orders during the time from the commanders and adjutants, who wandered through the fog in an unfamiliar area, not finding their troops. Thus began the case for the first, second and third columns, which went down. The fourth column, with which Kutuzov himself was, stood on the Pratsen Heights.
There was still thick fog downstairs, where the action had begun, and it cleared up above, but nothing of what was going on ahead could be seen. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we assumed, ten miles away from us, or whether he was here, in this line of fog, no one knew until the ninth hour.
It was 9 o'clock in the morning. The fog spread like a solid sea along the bottom, but near the village of Shlapanitsa, at the height on which Napoleon stood, surrounded by his marshals, it was completely light. Above him was a clear, blue sky, and a huge ball of the sun, like a huge hollow crimson float, swayed on the surface of a milky sea of fog. Not only all the French troops, but Napoleon himself with his headquarters were not on the other side of the streams and the lower villages of Sokolnits and Shlapanits, behind which we intended to take a position and start business, but on this side, so close to our troops that Napoleon with a simple eye could in our army to distinguish horse from foot. Napoleon stood a little ahead of his marshals on a small gray Arabian horse, in a blue greatcoat, in the same one in which he made the Italian campaign. He silently peered into the hills, which seemed to emerge from a sea of fog, and along which Russian troops were moving in the distance, and listened to the sounds of shooting in the hollow. At that time, his still thin face did not move a single muscle; shining eyes were fixed fixedly on one place. His guesses turned out to be correct. Part of the Russian troops had already descended into the hollow to the ponds and lakes, partly they were clearing those Pratsensky heights, which he intended to attack and considered the key to the position. In the midst of the fog, in the deepening made up by two mountains near the village of Prats, Russian columns were moving in the same direction towards the hollows, shining with bayonets, and one after another they were hiding in a sea of fog. According to the information he had received in the evening, from the sounds of wheels and steps heard at night at outposts, from the disorderly movement of Russian columns, according to all assumptions, he clearly saw that the Allies considered him far ahead of them, that the columns moving near Pratsen constituted the center of the Russian army, and that the center is already sufficiently weakened to successfully attack it. But he still hasn't started the business.
Today was a solemn day for him - the anniversary of his coronation. Before morning, he dozed off for several hours and healthy, cheerful, fresh, in that happy state of mind in which everything seems possible and everything succeeds, mounted a horse and rode into the field. He stood motionless, looking at the heights visible through the fog, and on his cold face there was that special shade of self-confident, well-deserved happiness that happens on the face of a boy in love and happy. The marshals stood behind him and did not dare to divert his attention. He looked now at the Pracen Heights, now at the sun emerging from the mist.
When the sun was completely out of the fog and splashed with a blinding brilliance over the fields and fog (as if he had only been waiting for this to start the business), he took off the glove from his beautiful, white hand, made a sign to the marshals with it and gave the order to start the business. The marshals, accompanied by adjutants, galloped in different directions, and after a few minutes the main forces of the French army quickly moved to those Pratsensky heights, which were more and more cleared by Russian troops descending to the left into the hollow.
At 8 o'clock Kutuzov rode on horseback to Prats, ahead of the 4th Miloradovichevsky column, the one that was supposed to take the place of the Przhebyshevsky and Lanzheron columns, which had already descended. He greeted the people of the front regiment and gave the order to move, showing by the fact that he himself intended to lead this column. Having left for the village of Prats, he stopped. Prince Andrei, among the huge number of persons who made up the retinue of the commander-in-chief, stood behind him. Prince Andrei felt agitated, irritated, and at the same time restrainedly calm, as a person is at the onset of a long-desired moment. He was firmly convinced that today was the day of his Toulon or his Arcole bridge. How it would happen, he did not know, but he was firmly convinced that it would be. The terrain and the position of our troops were known to him, as far as they could be known to anyone from our army. His own strategic plan, which, obviously, now there was nothing to think of to carry out, was forgotten by him. Now, already entering into Weyrother's plan, Prince Andrei pondered possible accidents and made new considerations, such that his quickness of thought and decisiveness might be required.
To the left below, in the fog, there was a skirmish between invisible troops. There, it seemed to Prince Andrei, the battle would focus, there an obstacle would be encountered, and “there I will be sent,” he thought, “with a brigade or division, and there, with a banner in my hand, I will go forward and break everything that is in front of me” .
Prince Andrei could not look indifferently at the banners of the passing battalions. Looking at the banner, he kept thinking: maybe this is the same banner with which I will have to go ahead of the troops.
By morning the night mist left only hoarfrost on the heights, turning into dew, while in the hollows the mist spread like a milky white sea. Nothing could be seen in that hollow to the left, where our troops had descended and from where the sounds of shooting were coming. Above the heights was a dark, clear sky, and to the right a huge orb of the sun. Ahead, far away, on the other side of the foggy sea, one could see protruding wooded hills, on which the enemy army should have been, and something could be seen. To the right, the guards entered the region of fog, resounding with trampling and wheels, and occasionally shining with bayonets; to the left, behind the village, similar masses of cavalry approached and hid in a sea of mist. Infantry moved in front and behind. The commander-in-chief stood at the exit of the village, letting the troops pass by. Kutuzov this morning seemed exhausted and irritable. The infantry marching past him stopped without orders, apparently because something ahead of them delayed them.
“Yes, tell me, finally, that they line up in battalion columns and go around the village,” Kutuzov angrily said to the general who had arrived. - How can you not understand, Your Excellency, my dear sir, that it is impossible to stretch along this defile of the village street when we are going against the enemy.
“I planned to line up behind the village, Your Excellency,” the general replied.
Kutuzov laughed bitterly.
- You will be good, deploying the front in the sight of the enemy, very good.
“The enemy is still far away, Your Excellency. By disposition...
- Disposition! - Kutuzov exclaimed bitterly, - and who told you this? ... If you please, do what you are ordered.
- I listen with.
- Mon cher, - Nesvitsky said in a whisper to Prince Andrei, - le vieux est d "une humeur de chien. [My dear, our old man is very out of sorts.]
An Austrian officer with a green plume on his hat, in a white uniform, galloped up to Kutuzov and asked on behalf of the emperor: did the fourth column come forward?
Kutuzov, without answering him, turned away, and his eyes accidentally fell on Prince Andrei, who was standing beside him. Seeing Bolkonsky, Kutuzov softened the angry and caustic expression of his gaze, as if realizing that his adjutant was not to blame for what was being done. And, without answering the Austrian adjutant, he turned to Bolkonsky:
- Allez voir, mon cher, si la troisieme division a depasse le village. Dites lui de s "arreter et d" attendre mes ordres. [Go, my dear, see if the third division has passed through the village. Tell her to stop and wait for my order.]
As soon as Prince Andrei drove off, he stopped him.
“Et demandez lui, si les tirailleurs sont postes,” he added. - Ce qu "ils font, ce qu" ils font! [And ask if the arrows are placed. – What are they doing, what are they doing!] – he said to himself, still not answering the Austrian.
Prince Andrei galloped off to fulfill the order.
Having overtaken all the battalions walking in front, he stopped the 3rd division and made sure that, indeed, there was no firing line in front of our columns. The regimental commander of the regiment in front was very surprised by the order given to him by the commander in chief to scatter the shooters. The regimental commander stood there in full confidence that there were still troops ahead of him, and that the enemy could not be closer than 10 versts. Indeed, there was nothing to be seen ahead, except for the desert area, leaning forward and covered with thick fog. Ordering on behalf of the commander-in-chief to fulfill the omission, Prince Andrei galloped back. Kutuzov stood still in the same place and, senilely lowering himself in the saddle with his fat body, yawned heavily, closing his eyes. The troops were no longer moving, but their guns were at their feet.
“Good, good,” he said to Prince Andrei and turned to the general, who, with a watch in his hands, said that it was time to move, since all the columns from the left flank had already descended.
“We’ll still have time, Your Excellency,” Kutuzov said through a yawn. - We'll make it! he repeated.
At this time, behind Kutuzov, the sounds of greeting regiments were heard in the distance, and these voices began to quickly approach along the entire length of the stretched line of advancing Russian columns. It was evident that the one with whom they greeted was driving quickly. When the soldiers of the regiment in front of which Kutuzov stood shouted, he drove a little to the side and looked around with a frown. On the road from Pracen, a squadron of multi-coloured riders galloped, as it were. Two of them galloped side by side ahead of the rest. One was in a black uniform with a white plume on a red english horse, the other in a white uniform on a black horse. These were two emperors with retinue. Kutuzov, with the affectation of a campaigner at the front, commanded the troops standing at attention and, saluting, rode up to the emperor. His whole figure and manner suddenly changed. He took on the appearance of a subordinate, unreasoning person. He, with an affectation of deference, which obviously struck the Emperor Alexander unpleasantly, rode up and saluted him.
An unpleasant impression, only like the remnants of fog in a clear sky, ran across the young and happy face of the emperor and disappeared. He was, after ill health, somewhat thinner that day than on the Olmutz field, where Bolkonsky had seen him for the first time abroad; but the same charming combination of majesty and meekness was in his beautiful gray eyes, and on his thin lips the same possibility of various expressions and the prevailing expression of complacent, innocent youth.
At the Olmyutsky review he was more majestic, here he was more cheerful and energetic. He flushed a little as he galloped those three versts, and, stopping his horse, sighed with relief and looked around at the faces of his retinue, just as young, just as animated as his own. Chartorizhsky and Novosiltsev, and Prince Bolkonsky, and Stroganov, and others, all richly dressed, cheerful, young people, on beautiful, well-groomed, fresh, just slightly sweaty horses, talking and smiling, stopped behind the sovereign. Emperor Franz, a ruddy, long-faced young man, sat extremely upright on a handsome black stallion and looked around him anxiously and unhurriedly. He called one of his white adjutants and asked something. "That's right, at what time they left," thought Prince Andrei, watching his old acquaintance, with a smile that he could not help remembering his audience. In the retinue of the emperors were selected fine fellow orderlies, Russian and Austrian, guards and army regiments. Between them, the beautiful spare royal horses were led by bereytors in embroidered blankets.
