“God has also allowed death to infiltrate into human life, not in order to punish us, but to bless us. Even though death wears the mask of evil, it manages to shorten our sojourn in our sinful state. Therefore, as Saint Gregory the Theologian puts it, the death of the body plays a part in preventing the prolongation of evil.”
(Maria Dimitriadou in Pemptousia)
 
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