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Reflections on the glorious birth It is a spring from us in paying the price of sin, in death, and died for us. But this was not the only thing we had. But it is a spring from us in every good work, in completing the whole law ...Christ came to repent from humanity He did not need circumcision, and he fasted and did not need to fast, and he did not need to Imad, and so on. Perhaps it is the Lord's behalf of man that made him often call himself the Son of Man, indicating that he came as a representative of man or as a representative of humanity. He is not the son of many people, but the Son of man in general. Man has died in his death and in his life and in all that was required of him ... Let's begin with the subject of Baptism, as an example ... Jesus went to John to be baptized. But he certainly did not need the baptism at all. The baptism of John was for repentance, and repentance was the work of sinners, not of the righteous. Jesus Christ, the righteous and the righteous, alone without sin, did not need repentance, and therefore did not need the baptism of John. John was a loud voice in the wilderness calling out, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near" (Matthew 3: 2) "Make fruit worthy of repentance." "Every tree that does not make good fruit is cut off and thrown into the fire." This voice was in no way directed to Jesus, whom John confessed to him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you" (Matthew 3:14) And John came to Him to be baptized "confessing their sins" (Matthew 3: 6) Jesus had no sin to confess ... As long as he did not need repentance, or baptism, why did he go to John? Why was it adopted? He did this "to complete all righteousness", to repent to us in obedience to the law. Humanity failed to please God the Father, and the Son came to his satisfaction: "Son of man" and stood before Him in full ... We repent of us in offering this repentance ... As we will repent at the end of time in the submission of humankind to the Father. Thus the apostle says: "When all things are subject to him, then the Son will also be subject to the one who has subjected him to all" (1 Cor 15:28) Sin had two consequences: the loss of man, and the rape of the heart of God. Jesus came to reconcile the two things together: He came to save the lost man, as he died from us in death, and in paying the price of sin. And came to reconcile the heart of the angry God to give him a full Nassrta satisfy him, And thus we are able to complete the Law and all good works. He did the two works together: He blessed the heart of God with His pure life, and saved the life of man, by His death and atonement. Just as Christ was about humanity in repentance, baptism, and completion of the law, it also resulted in fasting. A person can not restrain his body, so he ate food that Allaah forbade, and he fell. Jesus came to correct this error, and he began his service by fasting, even for the food of the analyst. We are fasting for the torso of the body and its stars and prophets. The body of Christ was not so strong as to restrain him, so why did he fast? And we fast to cleanse the soul and grow. The spirit of Christ in her serenity and name does not need a fast that leads her to the height where she is by nature. So why did he fast? He fasted for us, forty days and forty nights. In that fast, God gave the Father, on our behalf, a pure body that was not subject to the lust of food, which he was able to demonstrate in practice: "Man lives not by bread alone" (Matt 4: 4) Christ gave us the gift of presenting the Father with the image of the perfect and obedient human being, and at the same time presenting to humanity the divine image created in its example. Pope Shenouda III |
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