And what does the Mediator do?
The work of a mediator! Just as when two people are quarreling with each other and do not want to be reconciled, someone else comes along, and by inserting himself between them resolves the enmity, so Christ did. God was angry with us, and we had quarreled with God, the Lord who loves the human race; Christ threw himself between us, and reconciled each nature.
Leontius of Byzantium, Contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos, 53
#Christology #Soteriology #Atonement #Patristics
The work of a mediator! Just as when two people are quarreling with each other and do not want to be reconciled, someone else comes along, and by inserting himself between them resolves the enmity, so Christ did. God was angry with us, and we had quarreled with God, the Lord who loves the human race; Christ threw himself between us, and reconciled each nature.
Leontius of Byzantium, Contra Nestorianos et Eutychianos, 53
#Christology #Soteriology #Atonement #Patristics
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The symbol of Paradise
was depicted by Moses
who made the two sanctuaries,
The sanctuary and the Holy of Holies; into the outer one
entrance was permitted,
but into the inner,
only once a year.
So too with Paradise,
God closed of the inner part,
but He opened up the outer,
wherein Adam might graze.
-St Ephrem the Syrian, Hymns on Paradise 3, 17
#Patristics
was depicted by Moses
who made the two sanctuaries,
The sanctuary and the Holy of Holies; into the outer one
entrance was permitted,
but into the inner,
only once a year.
So too with Paradise,
God closed of the inner part,
but He opened up the outer,
wherein Adam might graze.
-St Ephrem the Syrian, Hymns on Paradise 3, 17
#Patristics