13 November 2024
Those who have been tricked into taking poison offset its harmful
effect, by another drug. The remedy, moreover, just like the poison, has to
enter the system, so that its remedial effect may thereby spread through the
whole body. Similarly, having tasted the poison, that is the fruit, that
dissolved our nature, we were necessarily, in need of something, to reunite it.
Such a remedy had to enter into us, so that it might, by its counteraction,
undo the harm the body had already encountered from the poison. And what is
this remedy? Nothing else than the body that proved itself superior to death
and became the source of our life.
St. Gregory of Nyssa
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