Apr 30 2007
MAY WITH MARY, DAY 1
From St Justin the Martyr:
We know that the Son of God…before all creatures came forth from the Father by his power and will…and through means of a Virgin became Man, so that by the way that the disobedience which was from the serpent took its beginning, by the same way it might have its undoing. For whereas Eve, yet a virgin and undefiled, through conceiving the word that came form the serpent, brought forth disobedience and death; the Virgin Mary, taking faith and joy, when the angel told her the good tidings that the Spirit of the Lord should come upon her, and the power of the Most High overshadow her, and therefore, the Holy One to be born of her should be the Son of God, answered, Be it done unto me according to your word (see Luke 1:35, 38). And so by means of her he was born, concerning whom we have shown so many Scriptures were spoken; through whom god overthrows the serpent, and those angels and men who have become like it, and, on the other hand, works deliverance from death for such as repent of their evil doings and believe in Him. (Dialog Against Trypho, 100)
