"Кстати, вспомнилась речь одного знакомого священника в день...

“By the way, I recalled the speech of a friend of the priest on the day of the Transfiguration. Hearing during the sermon the rustling of packages and shifting apples, he said something like“ I do not want to make any comparisons, but the people crowding around Christ behaved in the same way. He gives them the commandments, he tells them about the salt of the earth and about the light of the world - and they are like this: “Again he speaks something. He always says that, he says, long, long, and all in parables and riddles. Nothing, now he’ll finish and treat will begin. We must tolerate, now it will soon begin to heal. ""

From here: http://serge-le.livejournal.com/311318.html?thread=10065174#t10065174