🕊️ The Purpose of His Coming ✨ – I should like to learn what was the purpose of His coming among us; what was the mode of His incarnation, and the reason for it. … – Is it not quite obvious and unambiguous to everyone, that the Only-begotten became like us, that is a complete man, that He might free our earthly body from the corruption which had been brought into it? … By becoming the Flesh of the Word, who gives life to all things, this Flesh triumphs over the power of death and destruction. In the same way, no doubt, the soul, since it has become the soul of Him who had no experience of doing wrong, has its state secured, immutable in all good, and incomparably stronger than the sin which before exercised domination. For Christ is the first man who committed no sin and was convicted of no dishonesty. He is, so to speak, the root and the first fruits of those who are restored in the Spirit to newness of life, to immortality of the body, to certainty and security of divinity, so that He may transmit this condition to the whole of humanity by participation, and as an act of grace. _St Cyril the Great, Dialogue on the Incarnation of the Only-begotten #Incarnation #PurposeOfChrist #Salvation #Corruption #NewLife #Grace