Patristic Daily Dose (8/18/2011)- St. Ephrem

“Adam sinned and earned all sorrows; likewise the world after his example, all guilt. And instead of considering how it should be restored, considered how its fall should be pleasant for it. Glory to Him Who came and restored it! This cause summoned Him that is pure, that He should come and be baptized, even He with the defiled, Heaven for His glory was rent asunder. That the purifier of all might be baptized with all, He came down and sanctified the water for our baptism.”

-St Ephrem, from the Hymns for the Feast of Epiphany

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