Church Fathers V3 - Fr George Grube - Saint Mina Coptic Orthodox ...
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+ Sin is the fruit of self-will. There was a time when sin did not exist, and there<br />
will be a time when it and the punishment due to sin, will not exist.<br />
- St. Isaac the Syrian<br />
+ Our soul is like a heavenly bird; the Devil, a wicked fowler, seeking to devour<br />
souls. As the bird, flying heavenward, thus saves itself from the fowler, so we<br />
likewise, when we see the enemy-the Devil-attempting to snare our soul by<br />
means of earthly attractions, must immediately forsake these things with all our<br />
heart and must fly up in our thoughts to Jesus Christ, Our Savior, and then we<br />
will be saved from the "snare of the fowler" (Psalm 91:3).<br />
- St. John of Kronstadt<br />
+ A false prophet will foretell concerning the Antichrist saying he himself is<br />
Christ and of this he will attempt to convince all men.<br />
- St. Ambrose of Milan<br />
+ There will be punishment in eternal fire inflicted upon those who do not live<br />
temperately and conform to right reason.<br />
- Sf. Justin Martyr<br />
+ The Anti- Christ will come for the destruction of men, and to injure them, for<br />
what will he not then work? He will change and confound all things, both by his<br />
commandments and the utter terror of himself. He will be brutal in every way; by<br />
his power and by his unlawful commandments.<br />
- St. John Chrysostom<br />
+ At the end some will be sent to be punished unceasingly into judgment and<br />
condemnation of fire, however some will exist forever in freedom from suffering,<br />
corruption and from grief.<br />
- St. Justin Martyr<br />
+ God will allow persecution from the Antichrist not because He is unable to<br />
stop it, but because he desires, as usual, His strugglers to be crowned. For this<br />
reason the reverent ones among those living will be taken up into the clouds,<br />
receiving, as a reward of honor, that which is higher than any reward of men.<br />
- St. Cyril of Jerusalem<br />
+ The demons are jealous of those pursuing the Lord's way. They suggest<br />
everything possible to separate (us) from our spiritual father's care. They<br />
propose plausible excuses, they contrive irritations, they arouse hatred against<br />
the father, they represent his admonitions as rebukes, they make his words of<br />
fraternal correction seem like sharpened arrows. They suggest to us, since you<br />
are a free man, why have you become a slave to a merciless master? How long<br />
will you suffer and wear yourself out under the yoke of servitude and not see<br />
the light of freedom?<br />
- Sf. Theodoros the Great Ascetic<br />
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