Thursday 15 March 2018

THE BEAUTIFUL IRONIES OF THE CROSS

'...it was appropriate that, just as death entered the human race through a man's disobedience, so life should be restored through a man's obedience; and that, just as the sin which was the cause of our damnation originated from a woman, similarly the originator of our justification and salvation should be born of a woman. Also that the devil who defeated the man whom he beguiled through the taste of a tree, should himself similarly be defeated by a man through tree-induced suffering which he, the devil inflicted. There are many other things too.' 
Anselm of Canterbury in Jeremy T Treat, The Crucified King, p.179.