5 August 2024
But imitate Christ at all times, signing your forehead with sincerity.
This is the sign of His passion, shown and proven against the devil, if you
make it with faith, not in order to be seen by others, but knowingly setting it
forward as a shield. For, when the adversary sees that its power comes from the
heart, because it shows forth publicly the image of baptism, he is put to
flight. He flies, not because of your spittle, but because the Spirit within
you blows him away. When Moses made this sign, rubbing the blood of the slain
paschal lamb on the lintels of the doorposts, he signified the faith which we
now have in the perfect Lamb.
Hippolytus of Rome
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