Hello again.
Here is the second one of today's four questions.
Another piece from Origen's Homilies on Luke:
'Quam praecepit Jesus esse reddendam et projiciei:dam de vultu nostro, assumendamque eam imaginem, juxta quam a principio ad similitudinem Dei conditi sumus.'
This is something completely incomprehensible.
'After someone accepts Jesus and His image is restored from our face and accepted, we will acquire His likeness from the beginning.'
Well, it makes no sense at all.
The context: there are two images of man: the one received from God in the beginning, and the other is that of an 'earthly' man. The latter was received/acquired after the Fall, after he succumbed to the prince of this world. And as the image of the emperor of the world is imprinted on coins, the ones who serve the evil bear the image of the one whose deeds he is the instrument. And then comes this sentence.
Could you please comment on what all this means?
Thank you!
Here is the second one of today's four questions.
Another piece from Origen's Homilies on Luke:
'Quam praecepit Jesus esse reddendam et projiciei:dam de vultu nostro, assumendamque eam imaginem, juxta quam a principio ad similitudinem Dei conditi sumus.'
This is something completely incomprehensible.
'After someone accepts Jesus and His image is restored from our face and accepted, we will acquire His likeness from the beginning.'
Well, it makes no sense at all.
The context: there are two images of man: the one received from God in the beginning, and the other is that of an 'earthly' man. The latter was received/acquired after the Fall, after he succumbed to the prince of this world. And as the image of the emperor of the world is imprinted on coins, the ones who serve the evil bear the image of the one whose deeds he is the instrument. And then comes this sentence.
Could you please comment on what all this means?
Thank you!