Pierre Du Moulin

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King Lear · On the Incarnation-Athanasius of Alexandria · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

TRANSLATED BY ARCHIBALD ROBERTSON

whereas in what precedes we have drawn out choosing a few points from among many a sufficient account of the error of the heathen concerning idols and of the worship of idols and how they originally came to be invented how namely out of wickedness men devised for themselves the worshipping of idols and whereas we have by god's grace noted somewhat also of the divinity of the word of the father

and of his universal providence and power and that the good father through him orders all things and all things are moved by him and in him are quickened come now macarius worthy of that name and true lover of christ let us follow up the faith of our religion and set forth also what relates to the words becoming man and to his divine appearing amongst us

which jews traduce and greeks laugh to scorn but we worship in order that all the more for the seeming low estate of the word your piety towards him may be increased and multiplied

for the more he is mocked among the unbelieving the more witness does he give of his own godhead inasmuch as he not only himself demonstrates as possible what men mistake thinking impossible but what men deride as unseemly this by his own goodness he clothes with seemliness

and what men in their conceit of wisdom laugh at as merely human he by his own power demonstrates to be divine subduing the pretensions of idols by his supposed humiliation by the cross and by those who mock and disbelieve invisibly winning over to recognize his divinity and power

but to treat this subject it is necessary to recall what has been previously said in order that you may neither fail to know the cause of the bodily appearing of the word of the father so high and so great nor think it a consequence of his own nature that the saviour has worn a body but that being incorporeal by nature and word from the beginning he has yet of the loving-kindness and goodness of his own father been manifested to us in a human body for our salvation

It is then proper for us to begin the treatment of this subject by speaking of the creation of the universe, and of God its artificer, that so it may be duly perceived that the renewal of creation has been the work of the selfsame Word that made it at the beginning, for it will appear not inconsonant with the Father to have wrought its salvation in Him by whose means He made it.

of the making of the universe and the creation of all things many have taken different views and each man has laid down the law just as he pleased for some say that all things have come into being of themselves and in a chance fashion as for example the epicureans who tell us in their self-contempt that universal providence does not exist speaking right in the face of obvious fact and experience

for if as they say everything has had its beginning of itself and independently of providence it would follow that everything had come into mere being so as to be alike and not distinct for in virtue of the unity of body it would follow that everything must be sun or moon and in the case of men it would follow that the whole must be hand or eye or foot

but as it is this is not so on the contrary we see a distinction of sun moon and earth and again in the case of human bodies of foot hand and head now such separate arrangement as this tells us not of their having come into being of themselves

but shows that a cause preceded them from which cause it is possible to apprehend god also as the maker and orderer of all but others including plato who is in such repute among the greeks argue that god has made the world out of matter previously existing and without beginning for god could have made nothing had not the material existed already just as the wood must exist already at hand for the carpenter to enable him to work at all

but in so saying they know not that they are investing god with weakness for if he is not himself the cause of the material but makes things only of previously existing material he proves to be weak because unable to produce any thing he makes without the material just as it is without doubt a weakness of the carpenter not to be able to make any thing required without his timber

for ex hypothesi had not the material existed god would not have made anything and how could he in that case be called maker and artificer if he owes his ability to make to some other source namely to the material so that if this be so god will be on their theory a mechanic only and not a creator out of nothing if that is he works at existing material but is not himself the cause of the material

for he could not in any sense be called creator unless he is creator of the material of which the things created have in their turn been made but these sectaries imagine to themselves a different artificer of all things other than the father of our lord jesus christ

in deep blindness even as to the words they use for whereas the lord says to the jews have ye not read that from the beginning he which created them made them male and female and said for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall become one flesh and then referring to the creator says what therefore god hath joined together let not man put asunder how come these men to assert that the creation is independent of the father

or if in the words of john who says making no exception all things were made by him and without him was not anything made how could the artificer be another distinct from the father of christ thus do they vainly speculate but the godly teaching and the faith according to christ brands their foolish language as godlessness for it knows that it was not spontaneously because forethought is not absent nor of existing matter because god is not weak

but that out of nothing and without its having any previous existence god made the universe to exist through his word as he says firstly through moses in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth secondly in the most edifying book of the shepherd first of all believe that god is one which created and framed all things and made them to exist out of nothing to which also paul refers when he says by faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of god

so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which do appear for god is good or rather is essentially the source of goodness nor could one that is good be niggardly of anything whence grudging existence to none he has made all things out of nothing by his own word jesus christ our lord

and among these having taken a special pity above all things on earth upon the race of men and having perceived its inability by virtue of the condition of its origin to continue in one stay he gave them a further gift and he did not barely create man as he did after the irrational creatures on the earth but made them after his own image giving them a portion even of the power of his own word

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