Pierre Du Moulin

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

so that having as it were a kind of reflection of the word and being made rational they might be able to abide ever in blessedness living the true life which belongs to the saints in paradise but knowing once more how the will of man could sway to either side in anticipation he secured the grace given them by a law and by the spot where he placed them

for he brought them into his own garden and gave them a law so that if they kept the grace and remained good they might still keep the life in paradise without sorrow or pain or care besides having the promise of incorruption in heaven but that if they transgressed and turned back and became evil they might know that they were incurring that corruption in death which was theirs by nature no longer to live in paradise but cast out of it from that time forth to die and to abide in death and incorruption

Now this is that of which holy writ also gives warning, saying in the person of God, Of every tree that is in the garden, eating thou shalt eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ye shall not eat of it, but on the day that ye eat, dying ye shall die.

But by dying ye shall die, what else could be meant than not dying merely, but also abiding ever in the corruption of death?

You are wondering, perhaps, for what possible reason, having proposed to speak of the incarnation of the Word, we are at present treating of the origin of mankind.

But this, too, properly belongs to the aim of our treatise.

For in speaking of the appearing of the Saviour amongst us, we must needs speak also of the origin of men, that you may know that the reason of his coming down was because of us, and that our transgression called forth the loving-kindness of the Word, that the Lord should both make haste to help us, and appear among men.

for of his becoming incarnate we were the object and for our salvation he dealt so lovingly as to appear and be born even in a human body thus then god has made man and willed that he should abide in incorruption but men having despised and rejected the contemplation of god and devised and contrived evil for themselves as was said in the former treatise received the condemnation of death with which they had been threatened

and from thenceforth no longer remained as they were made but were being corrupted according to their devices and death had the mastery over them as king for transgression of the commandment was turning them back to their natural state so that just as they have had their being out of nothing so also as might be expected they might look for corruption into nothing in the course of time

for if out of a former normal state of non-existence they were called into being by the presence and loving-kindness of the word it followed naturally that when men were bereft of the knowledge of god and were turned back to what was not for what is evil is not but what is good is they should since they derive their being from god who is be everlastingly bereft even of being in other words that they should be disintegrated and abide in death and corruption

for man is by nature mortal inasmuch as he is made out of what is not but by reason of his likeness to him that is and if he still preserved this likeness by keeping him in his knowledge he would stay his natural corruption and remain incorrupt as wisdom says by taking heed to his laws is the assurance of immortality but being incorrupt he would live henceforth as god to which i suppose the divine scripture refers when it says

i have said ye are gods and ye are all sons of the most highest but ye die like men and fall as one of the princes for god has not only made us out of nothing but he gave us freely by the grace of the word a life in correspondence with god but men having rejected things eternal and by counsel of the devil turned to the things of corruption became the cause of their own corruption being as i said before of nature corruptible

but destined by the grace following from partaking of the word to have escaped their natural state had they remained good for because of the word dwelling with them even their natural corruption did not come near them as wisdom also says god made man for incorruption and as an image of his own eternity but by envy of the devil death came into the world but when this was come to pass men began to die while corruption thenceforward prevailed against them gaining even more than its natural power over the whole race

inasmuch as it had owing to the transgression of the commandment the threat of the deity as a further advantage against them for even in their misdeeds men had not stopped short at any set limits but gradually pressing forward have passed on beyond all measure

having to begin with been inventors of wickedness and called down upon themselves death and corruption while later on having turned aside to wrong and exceeding all lawlessness and stopping at no one evil but devising all manner of new evils in succession they have become insatiable in sinning for there were adulteries everywhere and thefts and the whole earth was full of murders and plunderings

and as to corruption and wrong no heed was paid to law but all crimes were being practised everywhere both individually and jointly cities were at war with cities and nations were rising up against nations and the whole earth was rent with civil commotions and battles

each man vying with his fellows in lawless deeds nor were even crimes against nature far from them but as the apostle and witness of christ says for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another men with men working unseemliness and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet

For this cause, then, death, having gained upon men, and corruption abiding upon them, the race of man was perishing, the rational man made in God's image was disappearing, and the handiwork of God was in process of dissolution.

For death, as I said above, gained from that time forth a legal hold over us, and it was impossible to evade the law, since it had been laid down by God because of the transgression, and the result was in truth at once monstrous and unseemly.

for it were monstrous firstly that god having spoken should prove false that when once he had ordained that man if he transgressed the commandment should die the death after the transgression man should not die but god's word should be broken for god would not be true if when he had said we should die man died not again it were unseemly that creatures once made rational and having partaken of the word should go to ruin and turn again toward non-existence by the way of corruption

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