Letter 219: We owe thanks for everything — not merely for the blessings we recognize as blessings, but also for the trials we...
To Peter.
On why he commanded that the flesh of the lamb be eaten roasted with fire.
The Hebrews used to eat the flesh of the lamb roasted with fire, typologically foreshadowing through this eating the great mystery of the divine economy [God's plan of salvation], and learning beforehand the Lamb of God, the fire of the divine essence ineffably intertwined with flesh, the flesh now eaten by us and effecting the remission of evils.
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Latin / Greek Original
Διὰ τί ἑπτὰ πυρὶ τὰ κρέα τοῦ ἀμνοῦ ἐσθίειν προσέταξεν.
Ὀπτὰ πυρὶ τὰ κρέα τοῦ ἀμνοῦ ἤσθιον Ἑβραῖοι, τυπικῶς τὸ μέγα τῆς θείας οἰκονομίας μυστήριον σκιαγραφοῦντες (7) διὰ τῆς βρώσεως, καὶ τὸν ἀμνὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ προμανθάνοντες, τὸ πῦρ τῆς θείας οὐσίας.
σαρκὶ ἀφράστως συμπλέκοντα, τῇ νῦν παρ’ ἡμῶν ἐσθιομένῃ, καὶ τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν κακῶν ἐργαζομένῃ.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern isidore pelusium workflow v1.
Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/PatrologiaGraeca (PG vol.78)