Monday, October 3, 2011

St. Augustine on Christ the Medicine

"The Son of God took upon Himself man[kind], and therin suffered the things which belong to man[kind]. This Medicine is for men so great that thought cannot reach to it. For what pride can be healed, if it be not healed by the humiliation of the Son of God? What avarice can be healed, if it be not healed by the poverty of the Son of God? What anger can be healed, if it be not healed by the long-suffering of the Son of God? What ungodliness can be healed, if it be not healed by the charity of the Son of God? Finally, what fearfulness can be healed, if it be not healed by the resurrection of the body of the Son of God?" (De ag. christ.xi.12; qtd from 'An Augustine Synthesis.' Arr. by Erich Pryzwara.)

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