Pierre Du Moulin

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

If then once more his body had fallen sick, and the word had been sundered from it in the sight of all, it would have been unbecoming that he who healed the diseases of others should suffer his own instrument to waste in sickness.

For how could his driving out the diseases of others have been believed in if his own temple fell sick in him?

For either he had been mocked as unable to drive away diseases, or if he could but did not, he would be thought insensible towards others also.

but even if without any disease and without any pain he had hidden his body away privily and by himself in a corner or in a desert place or in a house or anywhere and afterwards suddenly appeared and said that he had been raised from the dead he would have seemed on all hands to be telling idle tales and what he said about the resurrection would have been all the more discredited as there was no one at all to witness to his death

now death must precede resurrection as it would be no resurrection did not death precede so that if the death of his body had taken place anywhere in secret the death not being apparent nor taking place before witnesses his resurrection too had been hidden and without evidence

or why while when he had risen he proclaimed the resurrection should he cause his death to take place in secret or why while he drove out evil spirits in the presence of all and made the man blind from his birth recover his sight and changed the water into wine that by these means he might be believed to be the word of god should he not manifest his mortal nature as incorruptible in the presence of all that he might be believed himself to be the life

or how were his disciples to have boldness in speaking of the resurrection were they not able to say that he first died or how could they be believed saying that death had first taken place and then the resurrection had they not had as witnesses of his death the men before whom they spoke with boldness for if even as it was when his death and resurrection had taken place in the sight of all the pharisees of that day would not believe but compelled even those who had seen the resurrection to deny it

why surely if these things had happened in secret how many pretexts for disbelief would they have devised or how could the end of death and the victory over it be proved unless challenging it before the eyes of all he had shown it to be dead annulled for the future by the incorruption of his body

but what others also might have said we must anticipate in reply for perhaps a man might say even as follows if it was necessary for his death to take place before all and with witnesses that the story of his resurrection also might be believed it would have been better at any rate for him to have devised for himself a glorious death if only to escape the ignominy of the cross

but had he done even this he would give ground for suspicion against himself that he was not powerful against every death but only against the death devised for him and so again there would have been a pretext for disbelief about the resurrection all the same

so death came to his body not from himself but from hostile counsels in order that whatever death they offered to the saviour this he might utterly do away and just as a noble wrestler great in skill and courage does not pick out his antagonists for himself lest he should raise a suspicion of his being afraid of some of them but puts it in the choice of the onlookers and especially so if they happen to be his enemies

so that against whomsoever they match him him he may throw and be believed superior to them all so also the life of all our lord and saviour even christ did not devise a death for his own body so as not to appear to be fearing some other death but he accepted on the cross and endured a death inflicted by others and above all by his enemies which they thought dreadful and ignominious and not to be faced

so that this also being destroyed, both he himself might be believed to be the life, and the power of death be brought utterly to naught.

So something surprising and startling has happened, for the death which they thought to inflict as a disgrace was actually a monument of victory against death itself.

Whence neither did he suffer the death of John, his head being severed, nor, as Isaiah, was he sawn in sunder, in order that even in death he might still keep his body undivided and in perfect soundness, and no pretext be afforded to those that would divide the church.

and thus much in reply to those without who pile up arguments for themselves but if any of our own people also inquire not from love of debate but from love of learning why he suffered death in none other way save on the cross let him also be told that no other way than this was good for us and that it was well that the lord suffered this for our sakes

for if he came himself to bear the curse laid upon us how else could he have become a curse unless he received the death set for a curse and that is the cross for this is exactly that is written cursed is he that hangeth on a tree again if the lord's death is the ransom of all and by his death the middle wall of partition is broken down and the calling of the nations is brought about

how could he have called us to him had he not been crucified for it is only on the cross that a man dies with his hands spread out whence it was fitting for the lord to bear this also and to spread out his hands that with the one he might draw the ancient people and with the other those from the gentiles and unite both in himself

for this is what he himself has said signifying by what manner of death he was to ransom all i when i am lifted up he saith shall draw all men unto me and once more if the devil the enemy of our race having fallen from heaven wanders about our lower atmosphere and there bearing rule over his fellow-spirits

as his peers in disobedience not only works illusions by their means in them that are deceived but tries to hinder them that are going up and about this the apostle says according to the prince of the power of the air of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience while the lord came to cast down the devil and clear the air and prepare the way for us up into heaven

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