Death is Not a Punishment

And salvation isn't a legal loophole

I came across this quote from St. Basil the Great a few weeks ago, from a “Homily for the Birth of Christ.”

God comes in the flesh in order to destroy the death concealed in the flesh. In the same way as remedies and medications triumph over the factors of corruption when they are assimiliated into the body, and in the same way as the darkness which reig…