Life And Mercy

Qui secundum magnam misericordiam suam regeneravit, etc. Jure benedicitur a nobis Deus, qui, cum nostris meritis generati fuissemus ad mortem, sua nos misericordia regeneravit ad vitam. Et hoc per resurrectionem Filii sui, cum in tantum nostram dilexerit vitam, ut illum pro hoc mori disponeret, atque eadem morte per resurrectionem destructa, spem nobis exemplumque resurgendi monstraret. Mortuus namque est, ne nos mori timeremus. Resurrexit ex mortuis, ut et nos per eum resurrecturos esse speraremus. Sancta Beda, In Primam Epistolam Sancti Petri, Caput I Source: Migne PL 93.42d

He who by His great mercy gave us new birth... 1 Rightly is God blessed by us, who when with our merits we were born for death, were reborn for life by His mercy. And this through the resurrection of His own Son, when in our own life He held so dear, He set Him to die for this, and by that same resurrection death destroyed, revealing to us hope and example for rising. For He died that we might not fear to die. He rose from the dead, that even we through Him might hope to be resurrected. Saint Bede, Commentary on the First Letter of Peter, Chap 1 1 1 Pet 1.3