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Faith Q&A › Catechism › 5. The Church: House of Salvation

How are we going to drink from the new cup together with Christ in heaven (Matt. 26:29)?

The answer

Continuing his previous discourse, Origen says, “You see, therefore, that it is impossible for him to drink the new cup of the new life who still ‘is clothed by the old person with his deeds.’ ‘For no one,’ it says, ‘puts new wine into old wine skins.’ Therefore, if you want to drink from this ‘new wine,’ renew yourself and say, ‘If our outer person is destroyed, the inner person is renewed from day to day’”1069

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty

Notes

1069 Origen, Homilies on Leviticus 7.2 (FOTC 83:139).

Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty, Catechism of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Volume 1, Books 1–3. First English Edition, 2023. Published by St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Sporting, Alexandria, and Queen St. Mary & Prince Tadros Coptic Orthodox Church, South Brunswick, NJ. Copyright © 2023. Translation and Editing: Youth of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Arabian Gulf, and Egypt.