the crucified orator 740 Father and entrusts them to Him, so that through Him and with Him, they might be brought to life. For we are members, and the members are one body, which is the Church. Therefore, He entrusted all to God in Himself.”129 Cyril agrees with Athanasius, saying that the eternal Son “entrusted His spirit into the hands of the Father so that, beginning with Him and through Him, with a firm faith, we might have the certain hope of the same thing, that after death we will find ourselves in the hands of God.”130 Euthymius131 also adds: “The Lord God did this for us, that henceforth the souls of the just will not descend into hell, but rather will ascend to God.”132 Therefore, we ought not to remain idle, but while Jesus Christ entrusts us to His eternal Father, we simultaneously must entrust ourselves to the eternal Son of the eternal Father, so that we might be protected in His hands from falling and turning from Him and henceforth quietly lead our lives. As it should and can be, I will briefly explain. “Our spirit is something threefold: […] thought, […] soul […], and conscience. We must entrust these three spiritual powers to God.”133 Thus explains Didymus,134 whom Cornelius135 quotes in the Catena. First, the thought must be addressed, because — as the Spirit of the Lord states — it [the thought] is entirely intent upon evil.136 Through it, man lets himself be easily fooled by the crafty spirit of hell. We have a lamentable example here in the descendants of Isaac. Describing the incident, the inspired Historiographer writes: “While Israel dwelt in Shittim the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab” (Num 25:1). How did they 129 Cf. Athanasius, De Humana Christi natura contra Apollonium, sub initium, in: CLCE, t. III, p. 462. 130 Cf. Cyrillus, Commentarium in Evangelium Ioannis, Lib. XI, cap. 36, in: CLCE, t. III, p. 462. 131 St. Euthymius († ca. 473), was a Byzantine theologian and exegete. 132 Euthymus, Commentarius in Quattor Evangelia: Commentarius in Lucam, c. 24, in: CLCE, t. III, p. 462. 133 Cf. Dydymus, Catena biblica(?), in: CLCE, t. III, p. 463. 134 Didymus the Blind (313- ca. 396) was a theologian in Alexandria. 135 It is unknown to which Cornelius St. Stanislaus refers here. 136 Cf. Gen. 6:5
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