Patristic Quote for the Day

The Logos destroys the tyranny of the evil one, who dominates us through deceit, by triumphanty using as a weapon against him the flesh defeated in Adam. In this way he shows that what was once captured and made subject to death now captures the captor: by a nature death it destroys the captor's life and become a poison to him, making him vomit up all those he was able to swallow because he had the power of death. But to humankind it becomes life, like leaven in the dough impelling the whole nature to rise like dough in the resurrection of life. It was to confer this life that the Logos who was God became man - a truly unheard of thing - and willingly accepted the death of the flesh. - St. Maximos the Confessor, *On the Lord's Prayer* Philokalia II:289