Patristic Quote of the Day

For no law is called a testament, nor is anything called a testament, except that which is made by one who is about to die. And whatever is within the testament is sealed until the day of the death of the testator. And therefore rightly it is unsealed by the Lamb slain, who, as a lion, destroyed death and fulfilled that which had been foretold of him, and had freed man, that is flesh, from death, and received as a possession the property of him who was dying, namely the human race. For as through one body all people had come into the debt of death, so through one body all who believe might rise to eternal life.—St. Victorinus of Petovium