Patristic Quote for the Day

And so for our sake He submits to death and dies and offers Himself to the Father as a sacrifice for us. For we had offended Him and it was necessary for Him to take upon Himself our redemption that we might thus be loosed from the condemnation - for God forbid that the Lord's blood should have been offered to the tyrant! (St. John of Damascus, On the Orthodox Faith, Book 3, Chapter 27)