Homilies on the Orthodox Faith · Lecture 006
The Epistle Reading of the Annunciation (Part 2)
A lecture by Nikolaos Sotiropoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Nikolaos Sotiropoulos expounds the apostolic reading for the Annunciation from Hebrews 2:11-18, teaching that Christ, though God, became a true son of Adam and so calls believers His brothers. Because human beings share flesh and blood, He took a real body from the Virgin to die and overthrow the devil's power over death, the devil being a personal fallen being whose envy brought sin and death through the disobedience of Adam and Eve. He distinguishes bodily death, the separation of soul and body, from spiritual death, separation from God and far graver, holding that the Cross has bound Satan and abolished spiritual death for the faithful, while bodily death remains awhile as a pedagogy until the Second Coming and resurrection. God saved humanity not through angels but as the seed of Abraham, the merciful High Priest who offers Himself in sacrifice.
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