Pierre Du Moulin
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 12 Aug
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But if it beseems him to unite himself with the universe and to be made known in the whole, it must beseem him also to appear in a human body, and that by him it should be illumined and work.
For mankind is part of the whole as well as the rest, and if it be unseemly for a part to have been adopted as his instrument to teach the men of his Godhead, it must be most absurd that he should be made known even by the whole universe.
for just as while the whole body is quickened and illumined by man supposing one said it were absurd that man's power should also be in the toe he would be thought foolish because while granting that he pervades and works in the whole he demures to his being in the part also thus he who grants and believes that the word of god is in the whole universe and that the whole is illumined and moved by him
should not think it absurd that a single human body also should receive movement and light from him but if it is because the human race is a thing created and has been made out of nothing that they regard that manifestation of the saviour in man which we speak of as not seemly it is high time for them to eject him from creation also
for it too has been brought into existence by the word out of nothing but if even though creation be a thing made it is not absurd that the word should be in it then neither is it absurd that he should be in man for whatever idea they form of the whole they must necessarily apply the like idea to the part
for man also as i said before is a part of the whole thus it is not at all unseemly that the word should be in man while all things are deriving from him their light and movement and light as also their authors say in him we live and move and have our being so then what is there to scoff at in what we say if the word has used that wherein he is as an instrument to manifest himself
for were he not in it neither could he have used it but if we have previously allowed that he is in the whole and in its parts what is there incredible in his manifesting himself in that wherein he is for by his own power he is united wholly with each and all and orders all things without stint
so that no one could have called it out of place for him to speak and make known himself and his father by means of sun if he so willed or moon or heaven or earth or waters or fire inasmuch as he holds in one all things at once and is in fact not only in all but also in the part in question and there invisibly manifests himself
in like manner it cannot be absurd if ordering as he does the whole and giving life to all things and having willed to make himself known through men he has used as his instrument a human body to manifest the truth and knowledge of the father
for humanity too is an actual part of the whole, and as mind pervading man all through is interpreted by a part of the body, I mean the tongue, without anyone saying, I suppose that the essence of the animal is on that account lowered.
So if the word pervading all things has used a human instrument, this cannot appear unseemly, for, as I have said previously, if it be unseemly to have used a body as an instrument, it is unseemly also for him to be in the whole,
now if they ask why then did he not appear by means of other and nobler parts of creation and use some nobler instrument as the sun or moon or stars or fire or air instead of man merely let them know that the lord came not to make a display but to heal and teach those who are suffering for the way for one aiming at display would be just to appear and to dazzle the beholders
but for one seeking to heal and teach the way is not simply to sojourn here but to give himself to the aid of those in want and to appear as they who need him can bear it that he may not by exceeding the requirements of the sufferers trouble the very persons that need him rendering god's appearance useless to them
now nothing in creation had gone astray with regard to their notions of god save man only why neither sun nor moon nor heaven nor the stars nor water nor air had swerved from their order but knowing their artificer and sovereign the word they remain as they were made
but men alone having rejected what was good then devised things of naught instead of the truth and have ascribed the honour due to god and their knowledge of him to demons and men in the shape of stones with reason then since it were unworthy of the divine goodness to overlook so grave a matter
while yet men were not able to recognize him as ordering and guiding the whole he takes to himself as an instrument a part of the whole his human body and unites himself with that in order that since men could not recognize him in the whole they should not fail to know him in the part and since they could not look up to his invisible power might be able at any rate from what resembled themselves to reason to him and to contemplate him
For men as they are, they will be able to know his Father more quickly and directly by a body of like nature, and by the divine works wrought through it, judging by comparison that they are not human, but the works of God which are done by him.
And if it were absurd, as they say, for the word to be known through the works of the body, it would likewise be absurd for him to be known through the works of the universe.
For just as he is in creation, and yet does not partake of its nature in the least degree, but rather all things partake of his power,
so while he used the body as his instrument he partook of no corporeal property but on the contrary himself sanctified even the body for if even plato who is in such repute among the greeks says that its author beholding the universe tempest-tossed and in peril of going down to the place of chaos
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