The word for the day is “simplicity.”  In our reading of 2 Cor. 11:1-6, St. Paul expresses his concern about the false preachers in Corinth.  He worries that their subtle arguments will deceive his flock.  He writes, “But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ (vs. 3). Paul here is contrasting two states of mind, the condition of being deceived versus the state of simplicity.  He refers to Eve who is the prime example of one the devil deceives by trickery.  But as Orthodox, we recall a counterexample in the Virgin Mary.  The book of Genesis says that Adam named his wife,…