Tag: Jesus Christ
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The Church Fathers: Salvation l
SALVATION THROUGH FAITH AND WORKS By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrathand revelation of the just judgment of God, who will repay everyone according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but wrath…
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The Church Fathers: Justification ll
JUSTIFICATION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH AND WORKS For what saith the Scripture that Abraham believed Godand it was counted unto him as righteousness (dikaiosunen).Romans 4, 3 Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified (dikaiousthai) by faithwithout the deeds of the law.Romans 3, 23 Was not Abraham our father justified (edikaiosthe) by workswhen he had…
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The Church Fathers: Justification l
Infused & Intrinsic righteousness Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.Fill me with joy and gladness;let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.Hide thy face from my sinsand blot out all my iniquities.Create in me a clean heart, O God,and put a new and right…
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The Church Fathers: Queen of Heaven
MARIOLOGY My heart is stirred by a noble themeas I recite my verses for the king;my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.You are the most excellent of menand your lips have been anointed with grace,since God has blessed you forever.Daughters of kings are among your honored women;at your right hand is the royal…
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The Church Fathers: Mediatrix of Grace
MARIOLOGY And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith to him:They have no wine. And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what isthat to me and to thee? My hour is not yet come. His mother saithto the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.John 2, 3-5 My Explications of the Patristic Texts…
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The Church Fathers: The New Eve
MARIOLOGY God said to the serpent:‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman,and thy seed and her seed:she shall crush thy head,and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.’Genesis 3, 15 {DRB} My explications of the Patristic texts Justin Martyr (A.D. 155)Dialogue with Trypho “He became man by the Virgin so that the…
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The Church Fathers: Mary, New Ark of the Covenant
Mariology And David was afraid of the Lord that day,saying: How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?2 Samuel 6, 9 And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul,looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord:and…
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The Church Fathers: The Assumption of Mary
MARIOLOGY My beloved spoke and said to me,“Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,come with me.See! The winter is past;the rains are over and gone.”Song of Solomon 2, 10-11 My explications of the Patristic texts Epiphanius of Salamis (A.D. 377)Panarion 78.23 “If the Holy Virgin had died and was buried, her falling asleep would have been…
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The Church Fathers: The Immaculate Conception
Mariology Fear not, for I have redeemed you.I have called you by name, you are mine.Isaiah 43, 1 And the angel being come in, said unto her:Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee:blessed art thou among women.Luke 1, 28 {DRB} My explications of the Patristic texts Gregory Thaumaturgus (A.D. 262)On the Holy Mother…
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The Church Fathers: The Perpetual Virginity of Mary
Mariology Then the angel told her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus… But Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man?” And the angel…
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