ACC ~ 1 Peter 1 v24

THE NATURE OF FLESH. EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA: This is the nature of all flesh, and the portrait of a man made from clay, I mean someone who loves his own body and lives according to the flesh. Like the grass of the field and like beautiful flowers he will soon wither and die. CATENA.

LONGING FOR DIVINE LIFE. GREGORY OF NYSSA: If someone despises whatever is held in honor among men and longs only for the divine life, is he likely to think of the grass which exists today and is gone tomorrow as something worth striving for? ON VIRGINITY 4.

PRIDE AND GLORY EXTINGUISHED. THEODORET OF CYR: Just like grass, the people have dried up and their flower has fallen. God here foretold the salvation of the Gentiles and the sterility of the Jews. For by nature the human race is like grass, and the flowers of the grass are our pride and glory. But just as when the grass withers the flowers fall off, so when men die, their pride and glory are extinguished. CATENA.

TWO SIDES OF HUMANITY. HILARY OF ARLES: Here we see the two sides of the human being. The outer man is like the flower of the field which is mortal and will pass away, whereas the inner man lives forever by the power of the living God. INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER.

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