Homilies on the Orthodox Faith · Lecture 019
The Epistle Reading of the Annunciation (Part 1)
A lecture by Nikolaos Sotiropoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Nikolaos Sotiropoulos expounds the Epistle reading of the Annunciation, presenting the feast as the beginning of human salvation, when the bodiless God took flesh from the Virgin Mary through her obedient consent, and connecting it with the liberation of Greece through Saint Kosmas Aitolos and Theodoros Kolokotronis. Interpreting Hebrews 2:11-18, he teaches that Christ the Sanctifier is the God of the Old Testament who became man to sanctify Christians, and that, sharing human descent from Adam, He calls believers His brothers, a truth drawn from the Psalms, the Resurrection appearances, and the Last Judgment in Matthew 25. He defends the Chalcedonian doctrine of the Fourth Ecumenical Council against Monophysitism, and explains that Christ took flesh and blood to destroy through death the devil's power and to act as a merciful and faithful High Priest.
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