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NO CARNAL DESIRE OR ACTS IN EDEN!

Saint Gregory of Nyssa, from On the Making of Man: Now the resurrection promises us nothing else than the restoration of the fallen to their ancient state; for the grace we look for is a certain return …More
Saint Gregory of Nyssa, from On the Making of Man:
Now the resurrection promises us nothing else than the restoration of the fallen to their ancient state; for the grace we look for is a certain return to the first life, bringing back again to Paradise him who was cast out from it. If then the life of those restored is closely related to that of the angels, it is clear that the life before the transgression was a kind of angelic life, and hence also our return to the ancient condition of our life is compared to the angels. Yet while, as has been said, there is no marriage among them, the armies of the angels are in countless myriads; for so Daniel declared in his visions: so, in the same way, if there had not come upon us as the result of sin a change for the worse, and removal from equality with the angels, neither should we have needed marriage that we might multiply; but whatever the mode of increase in the angelic nature is (unspeakable and inconceivable by human conjectures, except …More
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