“In the Apocalypse we see "a Lamb, as though sacrificed." This is the Lamb that, for certain ineffable reasons, became the sacrifice of expiation for the entire world, having accepted even to be sacrificed, according to the measure of the Father's love for humanity. By his blood he bought us back from him who had bough…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 6:53-54
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1For great are thy judgments, and cannot be expressed: therefore unnurtured souls have erred.
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— Wisdom of Solomon 17:1 —
2For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation; they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.
3For while they supposed to lie hid in their secret sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being horribly astonished, and troubled with strange apparitions.