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2010/09/18

The Begetter of All Evil


The chief author of sin, then, is the devil, the begetter of all evil... This is not my teaching, but that of the inspired Prophet Ezechiel... "Blameless you were in your conduct from the day you were created until evil was found in you."  The phrase, "was found in you," is most appropriate, for the evil was not brought in from without, but you yourself begot it.  

[Cyril of Jerusalem, as translated in Message of the Church Fathers, Preaching the Word by Thomas K Carroll]

In follow-up to the earlier posting for this Sunday...I thought this passage of Cyril was quite on the mark considering the comment on Augustine's homily on the Psalm LIX

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Legio Christi-Ecclesia Militans
"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another" [St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 14:19]

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