Patristic Quote of the Day

No one is more truly a shepherd than Christ our God. One of his sheep has strayed. It is not the fault of the shepherd but of the sheep that had strayed from his flock. This one sheep is the man Adam, whom in the beginning the Lord had created in his image and likeness. This one strayed from the company of angels by sinning, and through him the entire human race strayed from God. Our Lord seeks to recall humanity from death to life. For it was for us that he went to death, so that he might make us alive, these who had died. For he rejoiced even more over the hundredth sheep that was lost than over the ninety and nine.—St. Epiphanius the Latin, Interpretation of the Gospels