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There are events that resemble one another, continued the elder, opposites are born from that similarity. The Old Testament opens with Adam but the New Testament opens with Christ. The sweetness of the apple that Adam eats turns into the bitterness of the vinegar that Christ drinks. The tree of knowledge leads humanity to death but a cross of wood grants immortality to humanity. Remember, O Amvrosy, that repetitions are granted for our salvation and in order to surmount time. —Laurus, Eugene Voldolazkin If anyone out there is curious about Orthodoxy, besides attending Liturgy and other prayer services I recommend reading this work of fiction. It is soaked through with the Orthodox phronema in a way that no other fiction I've read is. By contrast Dostoyevsky seems quite secular.