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What was it that You found in me, my Lord? What use, what interest, what good did You behold in me that You came to seek me? And it was the King of heaven and earth Himself who came, not His ambassadors. God Himself came to find and to ransom His servant, not with gold and silver but with His precious Blood. Nothing indeed did You find but corruption, weakness, misery, disobedience, and enmity toward Yourself.
+St. Tikhon of Zadonsk: Confessions and Thanksgiving
To add to this: The Fathers understood the Good Samaritan as an image of the Son of God descending, seeking, finding and healing a beaten and half-dead humanity.
