Patristic Quote for the Day

Just as He made the woman from the man's side, as we said above, just so He borrows flesh from Adam's daughter, Mary the Theotokos and ever-Virgin, and, having adopted it, is born without seed like the first man. So that, as Adam was through his transgression the source of birth into corruption and death, just so may Christ God become through the fulfilling of all righteousness the first-fruits of our re-fashioning in incorruption and of immortality. -- St. Symeon, the New Theologian, *First Ethical Discourse* p. 32