Pierre Du Moulin

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

But if they deem the arguments insufficient to shame them, let them be assured at any rate by facts obvious to the sight of all.

When did men begin to desert the worshipping of idols, save since the true God and word of God has come among men?

Or when have the oracles, among the Greeks and everywhere, ceased and become empty, save when the Saviour has manifested himself upon earth?

or when did those who are called gods and heroes in the poets begin to be convicted of being merely mortal men save since the lord effected his conquest of death and preserved incorruptible the body he had taken raising it from the dead or when did the deceitfulness and madness of demons fall into contempt save when the power of god the word the master of all these as well condescending because of man's weakness appeared on earth

or when did the art and schools of magic begin to be trodden down save when the divine manifestation of the word took place among men and in a word what time has the wisdom of the greeks become foolish save when the true wisdom of god manifested itself on earth

for formerly the whole world and every place was led astray by the worshipping of idols and men regarded nothing else but the idols as gods but now all the world over men are deserting the superstition of the idols and taking refuge with christ and worshipping him as god

are by his means coming to know the father also whom they knew not and marvellous fact whereas the objects of worship were various and of vast number and each place had its own idol and he who was accounted a god among them had no power to pass over to the neighbouring place so as to persuade those of neighbouring peoples to worship him but was barely served even among his own people for no one else worshipped his neighbour's god

on the contrary each man kept to his own idol thinking it to be lord of all christ alone is worshipped as one and the same among all peoples and what the weakness of the idols could not do to persuade namely even those dwelling close at hand this christ has done persuading not only those close at hand but simply the entire world to worship one and the same lord and through him god even his father

and whereas formerly every place was full of the deceit of the oracles and the oracles at delphi and dodona and in boeotia and lycia and libya and egypt and those of the cabri and the pythoness were held in repute by men's imagination

now since christ has begun to be preached everywhere their madness also has ceased and there is none among them to divine any more and whereas formerly demons used to deceive men's fancy occupying springs or rivers trees or stones and thus imposed upon the simple by their juggleries

now after the divine visitation of the word their deception has ceased for by the sign of the cross though a man but use it he drives out their deceits and while men formerly held to be gods the zeus and cronos and apollo and the heroes mentioned in the poets and went astray in honouring them now that the saviour has appeared among men those others have been exposed as mortal men and christ alone has been recognised among men as the true god the word of god

and what is one to say of the magic esteemed among them that before the word sojourned among us this was strong and active among the egyptians and chaldees and indians and inspired awe in those who saw it but that by the presence of the truth and the appearing of the word it has been thoroughly confuted and brought wholly to naught

but as to gentile wisdom and the sounding pretensions of the philosophers i think none can need our argument since the wonder is before the eyes of all that while the wise among the greeks had written so much and were unable to persuade even a few from their own neighbourhood concerning immortality and a virtuous life

christ alone by ordinary language and by men not clever with the tongue has throughout all the world persuaded whole churches full of men to despise death and to mind the things of immortality to overlook what is temporal and to turn their eyes to what is eternal to think nothing of earthly glory and to strive only for the heavenly

now these arguments of ours do not amount merely to words but have in actual experience a witness to their truth for let him that will go up and behold the proof of virtue in the virgins of christ and in the young men that practise holy chastity and the assurance of immortality in so great a band of his martyrs

and let him come who would test by experience what we have now said and in the very presence of the deceit of demons and the imposture of oracles and the marvels of magic let him use the sign of that cross which is laughed at among them and he shall see how by its means demons fly oracles cease all magic and witchcraft is brought to naught

who then and how great is this christ who by his own nature and presence casts into the shade and brings to naught all things on every side and is alone strong against all and has filled the whole world with his teaching let the greeks tell us who are pleased to laugh and blush not for if he is a man how then has one man exceeded the power of all whom even themselves hold to be god and convicted them by his own power of being nothing

But if they call him a magician, how can it be that by a magician all magic is destroyed, instead of being confirmed?

For if he conquered particular magicians, or prevailed over one only, it would be proper for them to hold that he excelled the rest by superior skill.

But if his cross has won the victory over absolutely all magic, and over the very name of it, it must be plain that the Saviour is not a magician, seeing that even those demons who are invoked by other magicians fly from him as their master.

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