The Anatomy of Death: A Divine Cure
Death is a hidden disease, latent in both the soul and the body.
It works in the soul, and the work of death transfers from the soul to the body, just as it transfers from the body to the soul. The pains of the body mingle with the intellectual life, giving it attributes of weakness, hesitation, frivolity of thought, and a lack of clear vision. As for the pains of the soul, they are fear, pride, enmity, hatred, anger, malice, and greed—all of these pains have physical manifestations, such as the trembling of the body in fear and anger, the look in the eyes of arrogance and hatred, and the voice that screams sharply, as if by screaming it gains what it is fighting for.
When the Word came into human life, He found it empty and ruined, without eternal life, but captive to death. Nevertheless, He took on mortal life to expel death from it. He transferred it through the (virginal) conception from the Virgin Mary from the first Adam to His divine Hypostasis, so human life entered, from the first moment, the realm of divine life.
When He was born as a complete human (with a human soul and body), He began to mold the soul and body together first in an indivisible unity. He confronted death in His body through the union of the soul with the body, to abolish the separation between soul and body that was brought by death. When He accepted death, He allowed death to separate His humanity into a soul that descended into Hades and a body placed in the tomb. Because death occurred by the will of the Lord Jesus and was exhausted in His being, death lost its dominion, for it no longer had authority over anyone. The dominion of death was attached to judgment and the sentence of death, "you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17). The Lord broke the dominion of death by abolishing judgment.
Therefore, we pray and say: "Let there not be death for your servants, but a translation." For He who died for us lifted the sentence from all humankind. When death was abolished in the body of the Lord, this body was no longer subject to corruption and division, but was alive with a divine life that does not take from the elements of the world—such as water, air, food, and drink—what gives it life. Rather, the divinity of the Word became the source of life for the humanity after the resurrection. The "breath of life" (Genesis 2:7) became what moves and enlivens the humanity. The rational power became the food and drink of the humanity, and glory became the garment of the humanity. Despite this transformation, He remained a human who does not perish because of the union, for He became an icon of the new life that we will be transformed into when we rise on the last day.
#DeathAndLife #SpiritualTruth #DivineTransformation #SoulAndBody #ChristianTheology #Redemption #Resurrection #EternalLife #WordMadeFlesh #OvercomingDeath #FaithJourney
Death is a hidden disease, latent in both the soul and the body.
It works in the soul, and the work of death transfers from the soul to the body, just as it transfers from the body to the soul. The pains of the body mingle with the intellectual life, giving it attributes of weakness, hesitation, frivolity of thought, and a lack of clear vision. As for the pains of the soul, they are fear, pride, enmity, hatred, anger, malice, and greed—all of these pains have physical manifestations, such as the trembling of the body in fear and anger, the look in the eyes of arrogance and hatred, and the voice that screams sharply, as if by screaming it gains what it is fighting for.
When the Word came into human life, He found it empty and ruined, without eternal life, but captive to death. Nevertheless, He took on mortal life to expel death from it. He transferred it through the (virginal) conception from the Virgin Mary from the first Adam to His divine Hypostasis, so human life entered, from the first moment, the realm of divine life.
When He was born as a complete human (with a human soul and body), He began to mold the soul and body together first in an indivisible unity. He confronted death in His body through the union of the soul with the body, to abolish the separation between soul and body that was brought by death. When He accepted death, He allowed death to separate His humanity into a soul that descended into Hades and a body placed in the tomb. Because death occurred by the will of the Lord Jesus and was exhausted in His being, death lost its dominion, for it no longer had authority over anyone. The dominion of death was attached to judgment and the sentence of death, "you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17). The Lord broke the dominion of death by abolishing judgment.
Therefore, we pray and say: "Let there not be death for your servants, but a translation." For He who died for us lifted the sentence from all humankind. When death was abolished in the body of the Lord, this body was no longer subject to corruption and division, but was alive with a divine life that does not take from the elements of the world—such as water, air, food, and drink—what gives it life. Rather, the divinity of the Word became the source of life for the humanity after the resurrection. The "breath of life" (Genesis 2:7) became what moves and enlivens the humanity. The rational power became the food and drink of the humanity, and glory became the garment of the humanity. Despite this transformation, He remained a human who does not perish because of the union, for He became an icon of the new life that we will be transformed into when we rise on the last day.
#DeathAndLife #SpiritualTruth #DivineTransformation #SoulAndBody #ChristianTheology #Redemption #Resurrection #EternalLife #WordMadeFlesh #OvercomingDeath #FaithJourney
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Death is a hidden disease, latent in both the soul and the body.
It works in the soul, and the work of death transfers from the soul to the body, just as it transfers from the body to the soul. The pains of the body mingle with the intellectual life, giving it attributes of weakness, hesitation, frivolity of thought, and a lack of clear vision. As for the pains of the soul, they are fear, pride, enmity, hatred, anger, malice, and greed—all of these pains have physical manifestations, such as the trembling of the body in fear and anger, the look in the eyes of arrogance and hatred, and the voice that screams sharply, as if by screaming it gains what it is fighting for.
When the Word came into human life, He found it empty and ruined, without eternal life, but captive to death. Nevertheless, He took on mortal life to expel death from it. He transferred it through the (virginal) conception from the Virgin Mary from the first Adam to His divine Hypostasis, so human life entered, from the first moment, the realm of divine life.
When He was born as a complete human (with a human soul and body), He began to mold the soul and body together first in an indivisible unity. He confronted death in His body through the union of the soul with the body, to abolish the separation between soul and body that was brought by death. When He accepted death, He allowed death to separate His humanity into a soul that descended into Hades and a body placed in the tomb. Because death occurred by the will of the Lord Jesus and was exhausted in His being, death lost its dominion, for it no longer had authority over anyone. The dominion of death was attached to judgment and the sentence of death, "you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17). The Lord broke the dominion of death by abolishing judgment.
Therefore, we pray and say: "Let there not be death for your servants, but a translation." For He who died for us lifted the sentence from all humankind. When death was abolished in the body of the Lord, this body was no longer subject to corruption and division, but was alive with a divine life that does not take from the elements of the world—such as water, air, food, and drink—what gives it life. Rather, the divinity of the Word became the source of life for the humanity after the resurrection. The "breath of life" (Genesis 2:7) became what moves and enlivens the humanity. The rational power became the food and drink of the humanity, and glory became the garment of the humanity. Despite this transformation, He remained a human who does not perish because of the union, for He became an icon of the new life that we will be transformed into when we rise on the last day.
#DeathAndLife #SpiritualTruth #DivineTransformation #SoulAndBody #ChristianTheology #Redemption #Resurrection #EternalLife #WordMadeFlesh #OvercomingDeath #FaithJourney
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