'The fathers of the Church have a very different reading of the parable of the Good Samaritan than we do. We think Our Lord is telling us just to be nice to others, but Our Lord is telling us, in an allegorical manner, the story of our salvation. ... The man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho is mankind, who falls among robbers — that is, according to Saint Augustine, the devil and his angels, who overcome man and strip him of the ornaments of immortality, virtue and most especially the gift of divine grace. ... Then comes the Samaritan, and the Samaritan is Christ: a stranger and a foreigner, not welcome in this world. ...' — Fr. John Brucciani