St Maximos the Confessor | Life is...the One who says ‘I am the life.’
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Death is, properly speaking, separation from God, and ‘the sting of death is sin.’ In taking it on, Adam was banished at once from the Tree of Life, from Paradise, and from God, whereupon there followed, of necessity, the death of the body.
On the other hand, life is, properly speaking, the One who says ‘I am the life.’ By His death He brought back to life again the one who had died.
St Maximos the Confessor
