Pierre Du Moulin

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

but there is this most startling fact that he who has put on the faith of the cross despises even what is naturally feared and for christ's sake is not afraid of death and just as whereas fire has the natural property of burning if some one said there was a substance which did not fear its burning but on the contrary proved it weak

as the asbestos among the indians is said to do then one who did not believe the story if he wished to put it to the test is at any rate after putting on the fire-proof material and touching the fire thereupon assured of the weakness attributed to the fire or if any one wished to see the tyrant bound at any rate by going into the country and domain of his conqueror he may see the man a terror to others reduced to weakness

so if a man is incredulous even still after so many proofs and after so many who have become martyrs in christ and after the scorn shown for death every day by those who are illustrious in christ still if his mind be even yet doubtful as to whether death has been brought to nought and had an end

he does well to wonder at so great a thing only let him not prove obstinate in incredulity nor case hardened in the face of what is so plain but just as he who has got the asbestos knows that fire has no burning power over it and as he who would see the tyrant bound goes over to the empire of his conqueror so too let him who is incredulous about the victory over death

receive the faith of christ and pass over to his teaching and he shall see the weakness of death and the triumph over it for many who are formerly incredulous and scoffers have afterwards believed and so despised death as even to become martyrs for christ himself

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 displayed trophies and triumphs over death and made him lose all his strength

and if while previously death was strong and for that reason terrible now after the sojourn of the saviour and the death and resurrection of his body it is despised it must be evident that death has been brought to naught and conquered by the very christ that ascended the cross

for as if after night-time the sun rises and the whole region of earth is illumined by him it is at any rate not open to doubt that it is the sun who has revealed his light everywhere that has also driven away the dark and given light to all things

so now that death has come into contempt and been trodden under foot from the time when the saviour's saving manifestation in the flesh and his death on the cross took place it must be quite plain that it is the very saviour that also appeared in the body who has brought death to nought and who displays the signs of victory over him day by day in his own disciples

for when one sees men weak by nature leaping forward to death and not fearing its corruption nor frightened of the descent into hades but with eager soul challenging it and not flinching from torture but on the contrary for christ's sake electing to rush upon death in preference to life upon earth

or even if one be an eye-witness of men and females and young children rushing and leaping upon death for the sake of christ's religion who is so silly or who is so incredulous or who so distorted in mind as not to see and infer that christ to whom these people witness himself supplies and gives to each the victory over death

depriving him of all his power in each one of them that hold his faith and bear the sign of the cross for he that sees the serpent trodden under foot especially knowing his former fierceness no longer doubts that he is dead and has quite lost his strength unless he is perverted in mind and has not even his bodily senses sound

for who that sees a lion either made sport of by children fails to see that he is either dead or has lost all his power just as then it is possible to see with the eyes the truth of all this so now that death is made sport of and despised by believers in christ let none any longer doubt nor any prove incredulous of death having been brought to naught by christ and the corruption of death destroyed and stayed

What we have so far said, then, is no small proof that death has been brought to naught, and that the cross of the Lord is a sign of victory over him.

But of the resurrection of the body to immortality, thereupon accomplished by Christ, the common Saviour and true life of all, the demonstration by facts is clearer than arguments to those whose mental vision is sound.

for if as our argument showed death has been brought to nought and because of christ all tread him under foot much more did he himself first tread him down with his own body and bring him to nought but supposing death slain by him what could have happened save the rising again of his body and its being displayed as a monument of victory against death or how could death have been shown to be brought to nought unless the lord's body had risen

but if this demonstration of the resurrection seem to any one insufficient let him be assured of what is said even from what takes place before his eyes for whereas on a man's decrease he can put forth no power but his influence lasts to the grave and thenceforth ceases and actions and power over men belong to the living only let him who will see and be judge confessing the truth from what appears to sight

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 teaching will any one still hold his mind in doubt whether a resurrection has been accomplished by the saviour and whether christ is alive or rather is himself the life

or is it like a dead man to be pricking the consciences of men so that they deny their hereditary laws and bow before the teaching of christ or how if he is no longer active for this is the peculiarity of one dead does he stay from their activity those who are active and alive so that the adulterer no longer commits adultery and the murderer murders no more nor is the inflictor of wrong any longer grasping and the profane is henceforth religious

Or how, if he be not risen, but dead, does he drive away and pursue and cast down those false gods said by the unbelievers to be alive, and the demons they worship?

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