Thursday, October 23, 2014

The Cross and the Grave



Source: Wikipedia
Marble cross from Knossos, Crete, Greece dated to 1600 BC found by Evans

St. Maximus the Confessor

66. The mystery of incarnation of Logos contains the meaning all the enigmatic and symbolic reasons of Writing, as well as the knowledge of all the visible [ and the conceivable ] creations.

Whoever has comprehended the mystery of cross and burial, he comprehends also the reasons that they were mentioned before.

And whoever has initiated in the expressionless force of Resurrection, he comprehended the aim for which initially the God created everything.

67. All the visible realities need the cross, that is to say the situation in which they are broken away from things that act upon in this realities via the sense.

The conceivable again all things, have need from the burial. the total immobility that is to say of whatever acts upon in them mentally. Because when with the relation is killed also every natural energy and movement in regard to all things, then the reason, remaining alone with itself, it is revealed as resurrected by the deads, encompassing in it all that are emanated from him, without no one generally thing has with him the familiarity of natural relation. Because at charm becomes the salvation saved and no by nature (Ef. 2, 5). 
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Source : Patristic Texts 
(in Greek)


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