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On the Incarnation of the Word 32 – Whom the Demons Confess
Athanasius continues to defend the Resurrection in this section by emphasizing that the demons flee from the power of Christ and at his name. And this would not be true if Jesus were dead. Demons do not fear a dead man. He ends this section with a marvelous statement of our faith. As then demons [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 31 – Impossible Not To Die, Impossible To Remain Dead
Athanasius continues to defend the Resurrection against those incredulous about it. But I want to focus on the manner in which he develops the core of the argument itself. For if He took a body to Himself at all, and—in reasonable consistency, as our argument shewed— appropriated it as His own, what was the Lord [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 30 – Christ Is Himself The Life
Athanasius next emphasizes the power of the Resurrection. For now that the Saviour works so great things among men, and day by day is invisibly persuading so great a multitude from every side, both from them that dwell in Greece and in foreign lands, to come over to His faith, and all to obey His [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 29 – We Live in the Daylight of the Cross
In this section, Athanasius continues to hammer the strength and perpiscuity of Christ’s defeat of death on the Cross. Now if by the sign of the Cross, and by faith in Christ, death is trampled down, it must be evident before the tribunal of truth that it is none other than Christ Himself that has [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 27 – Our Contempt For Death
In this section of his treatise, Athanasius writes of the proof of death’s destruction in the contempt with which Christians view death. For that death is destroyed, and that the Cross is become the victory over it, and that it has no more power but is verily dead, this is no small proof, or rather [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 22 – Received the Death of All Men
Athanasius makes several closely related points in today’s section, but I’m going to focus on one. And besides, the Saviour came to accomplish not His own death, but the death of men; whence He did not lay aside His body by a death of His own — for He was Life and had none — [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 21 – Why Death on the Cross?
I like the way Athanasius describes the way we no longer die the death as we once did in the opening of this section. For like the seeds which are cast into the earth, we do not perish by dissolution, but sown in the earth, shall rise again, death having been brought to nought by [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 15 – God Meets Us In Every Place We’ve Turned
Athanasius describes in this chapter of his treatise how the Incarnation meets man in every place he had turned. For seeing that men, having rejected the contemplation of God, and with their eyes downward, as though sunk in the deep, were seeking about for God in nature and in the world of sense, feigning gods [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 44 – Redemption (or Re-Creation) Required More Than Creation