A thread on SAINTS quoting, directly referencing or commenting on Psalm 50(51):7(5)
“For behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother bear me.” 🧵 The flesh’s impulse to reproduce is not subject to our minds, which God has appointed to govern us, and is not entirely without sin. That is why David said, “I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
- St. Gregory Palamas, Homily on the Annunciation (16.5)
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