Объяснение того, как Господь Своею смертию искупил от вечной смерти всех, когда-либо живших людей.

In the beginning, when this beautiful world had not yet taken shape, God in the Holy Trinity knew that the man He would create would fall, and therefore from the beginning he invented a means to restore him from the fall. This means was for the Son of God Himself to descend to earth without, however, leaving the Fatherly bosom, to put on true human flesh, to accept a human soul, in a word, to become a man, without ceasing to be God at the same time; to fulfill in this flesh and by the powers of this human soul all the prescriptions of the law of God, which man could not fulfill due to his corruption and corruption; to sacrifice Himself in suffering to Heavenly Justice, which was to eternally punish the unrighteousness of man; to die in diarrheal suffering and rise from the dead, in order to thereby mark the beginning of the resurrection from the dead to eternal life for all His followers. How did the Lord, by His death, redeem all people from eternal death, when people who lived and are living after the Nativity of Christ were not present during His stay on earth? How to ransom, for example, a captive from captivity, when there is no captive and there is no captivity either? Here one must have a view worthy of faith and the Church, and not this childish, human one. When it was determined to redeem the human race from death through the death of the Son of God, then all the people who would live henceforth were known to God, just as their sins were also known, although neither people nor their sins existed then. This means that you and everyone who lives now were known to God even then; therefore, for you and for all modern generations, it was also determined for the Son of God to drink the cup of God’s wrath in suffering and death, which means that you too have been redeemed by the suffering and death of the God-man from eternal punishment for your sins. Just acquire the faith and virtue necessary for this. Since the work of redemption is not a real work, moreover, it is not an ordinary and natural work, but a accomplished work, a work or miracle of the infinite goodness and omnipotence of God, a supernatural work, then it naturally requires faith and obedience. I say: obedience, because the Redeemer, eternally Living and Existing, demands from us, His redeemed servants, activity in accordance with our new state (sonhood). So the kings of the earth redeem their captives, not so that in the kingdom they would bear the same duties as in slavery, or do nothing, but so that in their place they would do the deeds of loyal subjects and benefit the whole society. God! Let me rest in the bosom of Thy love, as I once had the bliss of resting in it. Ah, I know from experience, my God, my Father, how sweet it is to be in Your love. A little child is not so comforted in the embrace of his mother after his tears, as those worthy of Your love are comforted by Your love. Your love is soothing, peaceful, full of inexplicable joy, sublime and holy, inspiring perfect mental security from all our enemies (which we see and which we do not see). He who abides in Thy love is not afraid of anything, even if the whole world threatens him with countless disasters. Without You it is hard and sad for me: my soul is worried and confused; the heart aches painfully and collapses; I am completely not myself, like an outcast, lost. I am despicable without You in my own eyes; Your beautiful world then seems to not exist for me: I look at it with my own eyes, but I do not enjoy the beauty of Your creation, I do not ascend with my mind to You, the Sun of truth, who enlightens every person. I remain, as it were, alone - without You and as if outside of Your creation, abandoned, pitiful, desperate. But when I rest in the bosom of Your Divine love, then You are with me, and together with You - the Creator of everything - and everything is with me: the bright and shining Angels, all the people whom my love for them makes inherent in me as brothers, and all creation, the whole visible world, heavenly and earthly. Then the world, as Your only house, becomes my property, since then I am Your son, and the Father’s property is also the property of the son. You might be interested in: