Nilus of Ancyra→Hipponicus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To the Same Person.
The hands of Christ, fastened to the cross, and the feet, fixed to it with nails, signify the cessation of wicked deeds, and the checking, abolition, and firm obstruction of the course that runs toward every impiety and sin. For by the strength of the Lord's cross we have wrestled down, and trampled, and forced out the sin that formerly conquered us, and deceived us, and held us under compulsion.
The hands of Christ, fastened to the cross, and the feet, fixed to it with nails, signify the cessation of wicked deeds, and the checking, abolition, and firm obstruction of the course that runs toward every impiety and sin. For by the strength of the Lord's cross we have wrestled down, and trampled, and forced out the sin that formerly conquered us, and deceived us, and held us under compulsion.
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