ACC ~ Galatians 4 v19b

THE LABOR OF THE MOTHER DOES NOT END IN BIRTH. JEROME: This example which he has taken from a pregnant woman deserves our close attention, so that we may understand what is being said. Nature is something to be not ashamed of but revered. For just as the seed is unformed when first sown into the mother … then at a determined time issues into the light and is now born with difficulties as great as those with which it is later nourished to keep it from dying—so too, when the seed of Christ’s word falls into the soul of the hearer it in-creases by its proper degrees and … remains in jeopardy so long as the one who has conceived it is in labor. Nor does the work end as soon as it emerges This is but the beginning of a new labor, so that he may lead the infant, by diligent nourishment and study, up to the full maturity of Christ. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 2.4.19.

CHRIST IS FORMED IN YOU BY LIVING FAITH. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: Christ is “formed in you” by nothing else but irreproachable faith and the way of gospel. FESTAL LETTER 10.1.

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