Patristic Quote of the Day

Rather, this is the city of all the proud and arrogant, which Cain established by the blood of his brother and which he named after the name of his son, Enoch, that is, after his posterity. For all the wicked in whom Babylon resides succeed one another and persecute the church of God until the end of the world. In the city of Cain “all the righteous blood” is poured out “from the blood of righteous Able to the blood of Zechariah,” that is, of the people and of the priests, “between the sanctuary and the altar.”—St. Caesarius of Arles on Rev. 18:21-24