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Compiled quotes from numerous contemporary Orthodox Christian clergy and teachers, in line with the Scripture and the Fathers, on Christ's work of Redemption. A thread 🧵

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"A cute girl at my Church asked me to be her Valentine this Wednesday. I sternly rebuked her for her obvious attempts to subvert the faith, as Feb. 14 is only for Blessed Valentine on the WESTERN RITE calendar. Sad—I had kinda liked her, but Latinizers are Latinizers."

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"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." –Hebrews 10:31 Blessed Holy Friday

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The Church Fathers, arranged by century, on Christ's atonement – a thread of threads 🧵

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"What is the mechanism of heresy? 𝘔𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩. For example, the latest heresy, which is now spreading among many theologians, says that Communion is not the Body and Blood of Christ. Theologians say that...

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"Circumcision was a punishment, as it were, for ancestral sin, and a reminder that children are 'conceived in iniquities' (Ps. 50:5), as David says. The brass serpent which Moses fashioned in the wilderness resembled a living snake, but had no venom; similarly, Christ, while...

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Reminder that this is an Orthodox Cross: ✝️ Just as much as this is: ☦️

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Remember that when we became Orthodox, it was by grace. When we stand and do not apostatize, remember that it is by grace. When at any moment we desire to stay Orthodox forever, remember that it is by grace. If we persevere to the end, brothers, remember that it is by grace.

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"View your situation as involuntary spiritual seclusion: pray to God more often..., read the Bible each day, and always read the holy fathers’ explanation of what you have read (all this is available online)." –Fr. Daniel Sysoev, Letter 140, to a Sri Lankan w/ no church to attend

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Romanideans when they hear a kindergarten Sunday School class singing "Jesus loves me; this I know / For the Bible tells me so" instead of "Jesus loves me; this I know, / For my spinal fluid tells me so."

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"The Book of Psalms is not a collection of words. It is not a series of phrases strung together in verses and couplets. Instead, it is a revelation—the revelatory activity—of God." –Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra (+2019), Psalms and the Life of Faith, p. 315

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I hereby beg all Orthodox who have a rudimentary-at-best grasp on both Orthodox and heterodox beliefs to please refrain from engaging in debate with, or memes against, Orthodoxy or heterodoxy.

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"Are not the Holy Scriptures our salvation?" –St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lecture XII, 16

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In the very quote of his that is so often abused by Pelagians, St. John Chrysostom clearly teaches that before baptism, even those without personal sins— + Are not holy + Are not righteous + Are not inheritors + Are not in Christ And baptism delivers them from this state.

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I've been taking an extended break and it will likely continue. In my absence, please everyone, proclaim, in accordance with God's written word, that: All have sinned. And Jesus Christ died for our sins.

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"In the middle of the 2nd century, there arose in the Church the heresy of Marcion, rejecting the Old Testament and the righteousness of God. Saint Polycarp of Smyrna called Marcion the firstborn of Satan and excommunicated all this heresy's followers from the Church. Since...

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The "gospel" of the modernists: Man is (innocently) ill, so a being (not ὁ θεός but given God status by dispensation) picked up a human nature (though this person isn't actually human) and died for no particular reason (it's the thought that counts) and descended to...

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@d4niel627 French is just corrupted English: confirmed

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@redeemed_zoomer @7thdayvacantist Just demonstrably false. St. John Chrysostom exhorted his spiritual children to do their own study of Biblical things, e.g. in Homily I on Romans:

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@TheTabellion @JadeAtrophis

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"Sinner! You need forgiveness of sins more than anything!… Our Savior is alive—alive also is our hope in salvation…. Now it is clear that God the Father looks with favor upon the sacrifice offered by Jesus for us…." –St. Philaret of Chernigov, on the First Day of Holy Pascha

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"Adam sinned, and died; Christ did not sin, yet He also died.… And what was the reason for this? So that the one who had sinned and died could be set free from the death that held him by the One Who died yet was without sin. This kind of thing can happen with money. For often…

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Pelagians taking L's. Congrats @ByzCeltPatrick on another job well done. This sort of thing is becoming a genre...

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"If you die before you die you will not die when you die." –Inscription on Mt. Athos "Hide not Thy face from me: let me die, lest I die, that I may see it." –St. Augustine, Confessions, Book I

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"Among Roman Catholics and Protestants there are sophisticated apologies which proclaim that heaven is 'a state, not a place,' that 'up' is only a metaphor, [and] the Ascension of Christ (Luke 24:50-51, Acts 1:9-11) was not really an 'ascension,' but only a change of state. ...

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Archbishop Elpidophoros has some good quotes, and since in them Christ is preached—and in this I rejoice, and yea, I will rejoice—I am gonna tweet them.

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Since Emperor Charlemagne is a topic of discourse again, here's the best interaction regarding the man that I've seen on this site:

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"The tormentors and murderers of the Son of God were not only the Jews and pagan Romans; all of us are also very guilty of these torments and of this murder. Why? Because the Son of God, Jesus Christ, as Savior of the world, was sacrificed for our sins; by suffering and...

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"Or one could say that the Logos 'becomes thick' in the sense that, for the sake of our thick minds, He consented to be both embodied and expressed through letters, syllables, and sounds..." –St. Maximus the Confessor, Ambiguum 33

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@PatristicNectar @TerraXCVII @YouTube Please everyone involved, delete this video, read Romans 3 and 5 and the Baptism service, repent, and post a retraction and apology, as Pelagianism is a damnable heresy and those who preach it bring destruction upon themselves.

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@FrGeorgedeIdaho "Are the Episcopalians any better than Sikhs?" Yes.

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Woah some amazing news to talk about today... A hugely important event has occurred. The death avoided, the shed blood... Yep, that news: That Christ died for your sins according to the Scriptures, was buried, and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.

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"The bishops are not to go beyond their dioceses to churches lying outside of their bounds..." –Canon 2 of Constantinople II

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"I was saved from original sin through baptism, chrismation and Holy Communion; I am being saved as long as I live and abide by the teaching of God in His Church; and I hope that by the grace and mercy of God...

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"First of all, it is necessary to know that children are not holy by nature, for 'that which is born of the flesh is flesh' (John 3:6), and therefore children, born only according to the flesh, but not of water and the Spirit, are only flesh, with Adam's sin in it. Through...

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A collection of quotes of some contemporary Orthodox teachers, in line with Scripture and the Fathers, on the Atonement of Christ - a thread.

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"Even from the womb, sinners are estranged; even from the belly, they are gone astray..." –The Righteous Prophet-King David, Psalm 57(58):3

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"In Adam I fell, in Adam I was cast out of Paradise, in Adam I died; how shall the Lord call me back, except He find me in Adam; guilty as I was in him, so now justified in Christ." –St. Ambrose of Milan, On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus, Book II

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@superxtianmario Same guy that literally says Apollinarius was correct. He's heretic-maxxing

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Compiled quotes from numerous contemporary Orthodox Christian clergy and teachers, in line with the Scripture and the Fathers, on original sin. A thread 🧵

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"The sectarians teach a dangerous lie, very dangerous, when they say that children ought not be baptized, but rather that children should grow and know what the faith is, and then they should be baptized. You man and son of man, cover your ears from such crazy words. If your...

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@eeyan02 Cradle here. Original sin is Church teaching.

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"My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand." –Song of Songs 5:10

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The internal debate over whether I will want to give my future kids all really epic saint names like "Quodvultdeus", or all Biblical saint names like "Jeremiah", or all nice English-word saint names like "Grace", "Prosper", "Violet", "Victor"...

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"The Orthodox Church does not accept the teaching that the Mother of God was exempted from the consequences of ancestral sin (death, corruption, sin, etc.) at the moment of her conception by virtue of the future merits of her Son. Only Christ was born perfectly holy and sinless."

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"Heaven, therefore, is certainly a place, and it is certainly 𝘶𝘱 from any point on the earth, and hell is certainly 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, in the bowels of the earth; but these places and their inhabitants cannot be seen by men until their spiritual eyes are opened." –St. Seraphim Rose

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"In order to understand the Gospel, the good, welcome news, we must first understand that we are in need of good news." –Hieromartyr Fr. Daniel Sysoev, A Sobering Book: Explanation of the Book of Ecclesiastes, p. 11

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Let me be clear: Priest Peter Heers and @OrthodoxEthos should never hear the end of this until they remove this video. If someone claims Scripture is not revelation, they should be regularly informed that we do not care about anything they have to say.

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@OrthodoxEthos Please read the quote above and consider taking down your recent video "The Mystery of Christ: An Athonite Catechism (Lesson 2)", in which you not only parroted Romanides' claim that Scripture is not revelation, but even made this out to be an Athonite position!

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"He didn’t just issue a pardon: He took the penalty that was due to us and He took it on Himself; He died in our place. When we consider what God has done for us, how can we not love Him?" –Fr. John Whiteford, "Tearing Up the Handwriting of our Sins"

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"Blessed is He who was crucified in our place!" –St. Ephrem the Syrian, Hymn On the Crucifixion IX, refrain

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"Some people think that in order to understand an ancient philosopher one must read all the contemporary commentaries on his works. In fact the opposite is the case. Plato himself is far easier to read than the commentaries on Plato, because Plato was a fabulous intellect, and...

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Christ's Passion in the Twelve Minor Prophets - a thread 🧵

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"While He was innocent, sinless, He became the new Adam of God's grace and 'gave Himself a ransom for us.' We are shocked by His sacrifice, His love! The concept of our Christ's death on the Cross is not at all simple. Dreadful were the sufferings of His Holy Body, but also...

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"I am reading the Gospel: here it is not I who speak, but the Lord Himself. He is present in these words, for He is the Spirit, the Wisdom, the infinite Hypostatic Thought. He is present in these wonderful thoughts and words of the Gospel....

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"It is God who died; it was God's blood which was shed upon the cross. What could be more precious than this death, what more awesome? How great a sin had human nature committed that needed so great a penalty (δίκη) to expiate (λύειν) it! How great was the wound that required...

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"In C.S. Lewis's novel That Hideous Strength there is an episode where Merlin prophetically perceives that a certain woman committed a great evil, by using contraception and thereby not giving birth to a king who would have been able to save the English kingship."

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"For in Thy sight shall no man living be justified." –Psalm 142(143):2

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"I am a murderer, and alas a hundred times more cruel than even the serpent which at least allows its offspring to see the light for a short while before devouring them. But I, the wretched one, have mercilessly deprived my children not only of the physical light but...

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@Kaleb_Atlanta Here you go

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Here is Justin Vaughan ( @itistrulymeet ), director of operations for @orthodoxethos , defending the denial of Scripture as revelation, and praising Romanides right after being shown where Romanides denied Scriptural inspiration & inerrancy in favor of atheistic cosmology:

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" ‘For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but...

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"The Crucifix is horrible. On it hangs a bloodied, mangled Man, an innocent Man, the Son of God, He who created, who sustains all things. He who is blameless hangs on the cross, accursed…. And the background is in fact in the Old Testament—let me read that text and see if we...

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I have found the Syriac word (the complete original Greek is not extant) which is rightly translated "guilty" in this St. Cyril quote: ܢܬܚܝܒ (netHayab) This is the word the Syriac NT uses to translate ὑπόδικος in Rom. 3:19: "...that all the world may become GUILTY before God."

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"The whole nature of man became guilty in the person of him who was first formed but now it is wholly justified again in Christ. For He became for us the second commencement of our race after that primary one and therefore all things in Him have become new" St Cyril of Alexandria

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"The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." –God, Genesis 8:21

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"It pleased the LORD to crush Him..." –Isaiah 53:10 (MT and Dead Sea Scrolls text)

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"Man was made at the beginning, Christ says [Matthew 19:4]. 'No, at the end!' fashionable theologians teach today. Let each decide for himself which is right. It is up to him with whom to spend eternity—with the modernist evolutionists or with Christ." –St. Daniel Sysoev

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"Christ came once; He found our paternal handwriting, which Adam wrote. He [Adam] caused the beginning of the debt; we increased the interest by our later sins." –St. John Chrysostom, Homily to the Neophytes, as quoted by St. Augustine in Against Julian

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@realjosephb The Sons of Thunder, Ss. James and John

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–St. Demetrius of Rostov, Homily on the Circumcision of Christ, from The Lives of the Saints, January 1st.

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"Yea, woe to me, if I do not preach the gospel!" –St. Paul the Apostle, 1 Corinthians 9:16

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"Mahatma Gandhi uttered significant words in his biography. He said he wondered why the death of Christ shook the hearts of Christians so much, since there were martyrs in India who had endured longer tortures. The Indian nationalist did not and could not understand the...

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"It is time for the Lord to act; for they have dispersed Thy law." –Psalm 118(119):126

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He prefigured Christ's victory over Satan by praying with his last words and destroying the Philistines' stronghold is what he did...

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Now belief in the Trinity, and that the Word is God, are non-Orthodox "Western Captivity." This is a cautionary tale for all who theorize theology from a nonsense "western captivity" narrative All who believe such theories will burn forever in Hell.

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"Happy shall they be to proclaim, that upright is the Lord our God, and there is no injustice with Him." –Psalm 91(92):13

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"And what does 'Ἐφ’ ᾧ all sinned' (Rom. 5:12) show? Namely, through Adam, all the humans begotten of him sinned. For what he fell and was put to death through, through the same they also who did not eat from the forbidden tree became mortals, from the charge against that man."

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Compiled quotes by Fr. Josiah Trenham on Christ's atonement – a thread 🧵

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@yecksd Calvinism is heretical of course, but that's somewhat of a mischaracterization of what they teach. They don't believe anyone dedicates their life to Christ without being among the elect.

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Modernist neodox arguments: Justice is mean West and Russia bad If atonement real why bad thing happen I'm phronema Words don't mean anything If sin juridical why i like to sin Out of context Isaac/Nazianzus quote

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Reminder that the hymnography of the Sunday of the Last Judgement says that the condemned sinners will be "sent into punishment, and separated from the elect" — εἰς κόλασιν πεμπόμενοι, καὶ τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν χωριζόμενοι — (Third Vespers sticheron at "Lord, I have cried")

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...He assumed the transgressions of the whole world; as the Holy Apostle says, the Father 'made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin' (2 Cor. 5:19). By His circumcision the Master showed even greater humility than by His Nativity, for at the Nativity He 'made Himself of no...

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"According to the teachings of the Church, unbaptized infants, though they do not belong to the Heavenly Church, are not in torment and are not deprived of some consolation. Their fate in this sense is better than non-existence." –Archimandrite Fr. Raphael (Karelin) of Georgia

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...possessing our nature, was born supernaturally and without sin of a blameless, unwedded mother. He had no need of enduring the painful wounds of circumcision, being sinless and Himself the Giver of the Law nonetheless, He underwent the rite like a sinner. In coming to us, ...

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Recently got a typewriter. Very exciting

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Compiled quotes by St. Ephraim the Syrian (+373) on Christ's atonement – a thread 🧵

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@jathanasius1 Based

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"If one of you had to take upon himself the sins of a hundred people and give an answer for them before God, what horror would you be filled with, what a crushing burden would the sins of others cause you! But the Lord took upon Himself the sins of all mankind. Have you not...

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"He said: 'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?' to show the magnitude of His penalty. For He was suffering so grievously, as if He were not the Son of God, but the enemy of God." –St. Bede the Venerable (+735), On Meditation of Christ's Passion for 7 Hours of the Day, 6, 4

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All sinned in/by Adam: the Patristic witness – a thread 🧵

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...which I took not away" (Ps. 68:4); that is, 'I suffered for sins I did not commit.' Circumcision was the beginning of Christ's sufferings on our behalf, a foretaste of the cup from which He drank the bitter dregs on the Cross, when He cried, 'It is finished!' (Jn. 19:30)."

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A compilation of quotes by St. John Cassian, to demonstrate that neither on the topic of grace nor on the topic of original sin was he at all a Pelagian - a thread 🧵

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"Utterly destroy them by Thy truth." –Psalm 53(54):5

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"Finding in the Egyptian woman a second Eve, the dragon hastened with words of flattery to make Joseph stumble, but, leaving his garment, he fled from sin and, though naked, was unashamed, even as our first parent before his disobedience..." –a Hymn for Monday Bridegroom Matins

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"...in whom (въ немже) all sinned" –the end of Romans 5:12 in the Slavonic translation by Ss. Cyril and Methodius

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@redeemed_zoomer @JonnyYounboi Orthodoxy is not at all Pelagian.

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"And what does 'Ἐφ’ ᾧ all sinned' (Rom. 5:12) mean? It means this: ἐπί Adam all sinned." –St. Theophylact, Commentary on Romans, PG 124.404C

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"'Is not My word like as a fire?' saith the Lord; 'and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?'" –Jeremiah 23:29

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@August1757657 I am compelled to defend my future brother Luigi here. He has some fantastic takes and is a good guy, even if he has flawed tweets. He is certainly not on the level of the popesplainer, the hyper-prot, and the deacon of modernism.

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