THE CROSS OF CHRIST GIVES LIFE TO THE HUMAN RACE::: Death trampled our Lord underfoot but he in his turn treated death as highroad for his own feet. He submitted to it, enduring it willingly, because by this means he would be able to destroy death in spite of itself. Death had its own way when our Lord went out from Jerusalem carrying his cross; but when by a loud cry from that cross he summoned the dead from the underworld, death was powerless to prevent it. Death slew him by means of the body which he had assumed; but the same body proved to be the weapon with which he conquered death. Concealed beneath the cloak of his manhood, his godhead engaged death in combat; but in slaying our Lord, death itself was slain. It was able to kill natural human life, but was itself killed by the life that is above the nature of man. Death could not devour our Lord unless he possessed a body, neither could hell swallow him up unless he bore our flesh; and so he came in search of a chariot in which to ride to the underworld. This chariot was the body which he received from the virgin; in it he invaded death’s fortress, broke open its strongroom and scattered all its treasure. - By Ephrem of Edessa
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:36:37 +0000
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