Pierre Du Moulin
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 12 Aug
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takes his seat at the helm of the soul and comes to the rescue and corrects all its calamities what is there incredible in what we say that mankind being in error the word lighted down upon it and appeared as man that he might save it in its tempest by his guidance and goodness
but perhaps shamed into agreeing with this they will choose to say that god if he wished to reform and to save mankind ought to have done so by a mere fiat without his word taking a body in just the same way as he did formerly when he produced them out of nothing
to this objection of theirs a reasonable answer would be that formerly nothing being in existence at all what was needed to make everything was a fiat and the bare will to do so but when man had once been made and necessity demanded a cure not for things that were not but for things that had come to be it was naturally consequent that the physician and saviour should appear in what had come to be in order also to cure the things that were for this cause then
he has become man and used his body as a human instrument for if this were not the right way how was the word choosing to use an instrument to appear or whence was he to take it save from those already in being and in need of his godhead by means of one like themselves
for it was not things without being that needed salvation so that a bare command should suffice but man already in existence was going to corruption and ruin it was then natural and right that the word should use a human instrument and reveal himself every whither
secondly you must know this also that the corruption which had set in was not external to the body but had become attached to it and it was required that instead of corruption life should cleave to it so that just as death has been engendered in the body so life may be engendered in it also
now if death were external to the body it would be proper for life also to have been engendered externally to it but if death was wound closely to the body and was ruling over it as though united to it it was required that life also should be wound closely to the body that so the body by putting on life in its stead should cast off corruption
besides even supposing that the word had come outside the body and not in it death would indeed have been defeated by him in perfect accordance with nature inasmuch as death has no power against the life but the corruption attached to the body would have remained in it none the less
for this cause the saviour reasonably put on him a body in order that the body becoming wound closely to the life should no longer as mortal abide in death but as having put on immortality should thenceforth rise again and remain immortal for once it had put on corruption it could not have risen again unless it had put on life
and death likewise could not from its very nature appear save in the body therefore he put on a body that he might find death in the body and blot it out for how could the lord have been proved at all to be the life had he not quickened what was mortal
and just as whereas stubble is naturally destructible by fire supposing firstly a man keeps fire away from the stubble though it is not burned yet the stubble remains for all that merely stubble fearing the threat of the fire for fire has the natural property of consuming it while if a man secondly encloses it with a quantity of asbestos
the substance said to be an antidote of fire the stubble no longer dreads the fire being secured by its enclosure in incombustible matter in this very way one may say with regard to the body and death that if death had been kept from the body by a mere command
on his part it would none the less have been mortal and corruptible according to the nature of bodies but that this should not be it put on the incorporeal word of god and thus no longer fears either death or corruption for it has life as a garment and corruption is done away in it
consistently therefore the word of god took a body and has made use of a human instrument in order to quicken the body also as he is known in creation by his works so to work in man as well and to show himself everywhere leaving nothing devoid of its own divinity and of the knowledge of him
for i resume and repeat what i said before that the saviour did this in order that as he fills all things on all sides by his presence so also he might fill all things with the knowledge of him as the divine scripture also says the whole earth was filled with the knowledge of the lord
for if a man will but look up to heaven he sees its order or if he cannot raise his face to heaven but only to man he sees his power beyond comparison with that of men shown by his works and learns that he alone among men is god the word or if a man is gone astray among demons and is in fear of them he may see this man drive them out and make up his mind that he is their master
or if a man has sunk to the waters and thinks that they are god as the egyptians for instance reverence the water he may see its nature changed by him and learn that the lord is creator of the waters but if a man is gone down even to hades and stands in awe of the heroes who have descended thither regarding them as gods
yet he may see the fact of christ's resurrection and victory over death and infer that among them also christ alone is true god and lord for the lord touched all parts of creation and freed and undeceived all of them from every illusion as paul says having put off from himself the principalities and the powers he triumphed on the cross that no one might by any possibility be any longer deceived but everywhere might find the true word of god
for thus man shut in on every side and beholding the divinity of the word unfolded everywhere that is in heaven in hell in man upon earth is no longer exposed to deceit concerning god but is to worship christ alone and through him come rightly to know the father
By these arguments, then, on grounds of reason, the Gentiles in their turn will fairly be put to shame by us.
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