Monday, June 27, 2022

Baptismal Regeneration in Maximus the Confessor's "The Life of the Virgin"

  

The faithful, however, met with the true rising, for they have been freed from the bondage and servitude of the old Law, and they have been buried with Christ in baptism (cf. Rom 6.4), and with him they have been raised and live in eternal life. With him they suffered persecution and torment, and with him they have been glorified in the kingdom of heaven. (Maximus the Confessor, The Life of the Virgin 51 [trans. Stephen J. Shoemaker; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012], 79)