Required reading
Ante-Nicene Fathers (Vol 6) (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read the 'Oration concerning on the palms' and 'Some other fragments'.
My summary
Today we finish our time with Methodius.
The longest work is an exhortation to delight in the Messiah, as was done on Christ's entrance into Jerusalem.
Then some comments are made about the significance of the cross.
Other smaller fragments deal with a few issues, but are primarily concerned with the book of Job.
What grabbed me
I liked these comments about the effect of Christ's crucifixion: ' For the Word suffered, being in the flesh affixed to the cross, that He might bring man, who had been deceived by error, to His supreme and godlike majesty, restoring him to that divine life from which he had become alienated. By this figure, in truth, the passions are blunted; the passion of the passions having taken place by the Passion, and the death of death by the death of Christ, He not having been subdued by death, nor overcome by the pains of the Passion. For neither did the Passion cast Him down from His equanimity, nor did death hurt Him, but He was in the passible remaining impassible, and in the mortal remaining immortal, comprehending all that the air, and this middle state, and the heaven above contained, and attempering the mortal to the immortal divinity. Death was vanquished entirely; the flesh being crucified to draw forth its immortality.'
Death has been swallowed up in victory!
Next week's reading
Commence 'The seven books of Arnobius against the heathen' by reading Book I.
Now it's your turn
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