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St. Cyril of Alexandria: On the Meeting of Christ in the Temple

Commentary on St. Luke 2:25-35 (Sermon 4) “The prophet Isaiah says, “Beautiful are the feet of them that bring good tidings of good:” and what could there be so sweet to learn as that God has saved the world by the mediation of the Son, in that He was made like unto us? For it is written, “that there is …

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“Oration concerning Simeon and Anna” and the Meeting of Christ in the Temple

By St. Methodius of Patara (+ 312 AD) *1. “Although I have before, as briefly as possible, in my dialogue on chastity, sufficiently laid the foundations as it were, for a discourse on virginity, yet today the season has brought forward the entire subject of the glory of virginity, and its incorruptible crown, for the delightful consideration of the Church’s …

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Saint Gregory Palamas on the Presentation of the Lord

After the Saviour was born of the Virgin and circumcised on the eighth day according to the law, then, as Luke the evangelist says, “when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, as it is written in the law of the Lord” (Luke …

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