ACC ~ Galatians 4 v27b

LIKE SARAH, THE BARREN CHURCH ACQUIRED CHILDREN. CHRYSOSTOM: The church was not only barren like Sarah and did not only become rich in children like her, but it also gave birth in the same way as Sarah. For just as it was not nature but the word of God that made her a mother … so too in our own regeneration it is not nature of any kind but the word of God spoken through the presbyter, as the faithful know, in the waters of the font, as in a womb, that fashions and regenerates the one who is being baptized. HOMILY ON GALATIANS 4.27.

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