23 October 2024
By the signing of the holy and life-giving cross, devils and various
scourges are driven away. For it is without price and without cost and praises
him who can say it. The holy fathers have, by their words, transmitted to us,
and even to the unbelieving heretics, how the two raised fingers and the single
hand reveal Christ our God in His dual nature but single substance. The right
hand proclaims His immeasurable strength, His sitting on the right hand of the
Father, and His coming down unto us from Heaven. Again, by the movement of the
hands to our right the enemies of God will be driven out, as the Lord triumphs
over the Devil with His inconquerable power, rendering him dismal and weak.
Athanasius of Alexandria
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