ACC ~ 2 Timothy 2 v11

FALLING, WE RISE. ORIGEN: The Savior, too, first granted you this very thing—that you should fall. You were a Gentile. Let the Gentile in you fall. You loved prostitutes. Let the lover of prostitutes in you perish first. You were a sinner. Let the sinner in you fall. Then you can rise again and say, “If we have died with him, we shall also live with him,” and, “If we have been made like him in death, we shall also be like him in resurrection.” HOMILIES ON LUKE 17.3.

IN BAPTISM AND IN LIVING. CHRYSOSTOM: But how are we “dead with him”? This death refers to both that in the Laver and that in sufferings. HOMILIES ON 2 TIMOTHY 5.

MADE KING, PRIEST AND PROPHET IN BAPTISM. CHRYSOSTOM: So also you are yourself made king and priest and prophet in the washing of baptism. You are a king by having dashed to earth all the deeds of wickedness and slain your sins. You are a priest in that you offer yourself to God, having sacrificed your body and being yourself slain also, “for if we died with him,” says he, “we shall also live with him.” You are a prophet, knowing what shall be, being inspired of God and sealed. HOMILIES ON SECOND CORINTHIANS 3.

CHRIST REIGNS BY NATURE, WE BY GRACE. AMBROSE: The apostle says that even we shall reign together with Christ in the kingdom of Christ. “If we are dead with him, we shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also reign with him.” But we by adoption, he by power; we live by grace, he by nature. OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 3.20.157.

HIS SIGN UPON OUR BODIES. APHRAHAT: Let us honor the spirit of Christ, that we may receive grace from him. Let us be strangers to the world, even as Christ was not of it. Let us be humble and mild, that we may inherit the land of life. Let us be unflagging in his service, that he may cause us to serve in the abode of the saints. Let us pray his prayer in purity, that it may have access to the Lord of majesty. Let us be partakers in his suffering, so that we may also rise up in his resurrection. Let us bear his sign upon our bodies, that we may be delivered from the wrath to come. SELECT DEMONSTRATIONS 6.1.

THE BAPTISMAL ASSURANCE. BASIL THE GREAT: Having been planted with him in the likeness of his death, we will assuredly be raised up together with Christ (for the planting implies this eventuality). But in the present life, we are formed in the inner man according to the measure of the incarnation in newness of life and obedience unto death, fully persuaded of the truth of his words, so that we may become worthy to say with truth, “And I live, now not I, but Christ lives in me.” That this obtains also for the future life. The same apostle has strongly affirmed this in these words: “For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him.” CONCERNING BAPTISM 1.15.

PASSION AND RESURRECTION. AUGUSTINE: We ought to be humble of heart out of the sincerest devotion during the whole time of this wandering exile, in which we are living in the midst of trials and temptations. If so, how much more should we be so during these days, when as well as spending this time of humility by living it, we are also signifying it by our liturgical celebration of it. The lowliness of Christ has taught us to be lowly, because by dying he yielded to the godless. Christ’s highness makes us exalted, because by rising again he has led the way for the godly. … We celebrate one of these things now, when his passion is, so to say, drawing near. We celebrate the other after Easter with appropriate devotion, when his resurrection, so to say, has been accomplished. SERMONS 206.1.

HIS PASSION IN THE FLESH, IMPASSIBILITY AS GOD. NICETAS OF REMESIANA: We must believe both his passion according to the flesh and his impassibility inasmuch as he was God. … Let us confess our oneness with Christ, lest we be separated from him. In the words of the apostle, “If we have died with him, we shall also live with him.” INSTRUCTION ON FAITH 7.

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