Pierre Du Moulin

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

who he is then let the greeks tell us whose only serious pursuit is jesting perhaps they might say that he too was a demon and hence his strength but say this as they will they will have the laugh against them for they can at once more be put to shame by our former proofs for how is it possible that he should be a demon who drives demons out

for if he simply drove out particular demons it might properly be held that by the chief of demons he prevailed against the lesser just as the jews said to him when they wished to insult him but if by his name being named all madness of the demons is uprooted and chased away it must be evident that here too they are wrong and that our lord and saviour christ is not as they think some demoniacal power

then if the saviour is neither a man simply nor a magician nor some demon but has by his own godhead brought to naught and cast into the shade both the doctrine found in the poets and the delusion of the demons and the wisdom of the gentiles it must be plain and will be owned by all that this is the true son of god even the word and wisdom and power of the father from the beginning

for this is why his works also are no works of man but are recognized to be above man and truly god's works both from the facts in themselves and from comparison with the rest of mankind for what man that ever was formed a body for himself from a virgin alone or what man ever healed so many diseases as the common lord of all or who has restored what was wanting to man's nature and made one blind from his birth to see

asclepius was deified among them because he practiced medicine and found out herbs for bodies that were sick not forming them himself out of the earth but discovering them by science drawn from nature but what is this to what was done by the saviour in that instead of healing a wound he modified a man's original nature and restored the body whole

Heracles is worshipped as a god among the Greeks because he fought against men, his peers, and destroyed wild beasts by guile.

What is this to what was done by the Word in driving away from man diseases and demons and death itself?

Dionysius is worshipped among them because he has taught man drunkenness, but the true Saviour and Lord of all, for teaching temperance, is mocked by these people.

But let these matters pass.

What will they say to the other miracles of his Godhead?

at what man's death was the sun darkened and the earth shaken lo even to this day men are dying and they died also before then when did any such like wonder happen in their case or to pass over the deeds done through the body and mention those after its rising again what man's doctrine that ever was has prevailed everywhere one and the same from one end of the earth to the other so that his worship has flown through every land

or why if christ is as they say a man and not god the word is not his worship prevented by the gods they have from passing into the same land where they are or why on the contrary does the word himself sojourning here by his teaching stop their worship and put their deception to shame

Many before this man have been kings and tyrants of the world, many are on record, who have been wise men and magicians among the Chaldeans and Egyptians and Indians, which of these, I say, not after death, but while still alive, was ever able so far to prevail as to fill the whole earth with his teaching and reform so great a multitude from the superstition of idols, as our Saviour has brought over from idols to himself.

the philosophers of the greeks have composed many works with plausibility and verbal skill what result then have they exhibited so great as has the cross of christ for the refinements they taught were plausible enough till they died but even the influence they seemed to have while alive was subject to their mutual rivalries

and they were emulous and declaimed against one another but the word of god most strange fact teaching in meaner language has cast into the shade the choice sophists and while he has drawing all to himself brought their schools to naught he has filled his own churches and the marvellous thing is that by going down as man to death he has brought to naught the sounding utterances of the wise concerning idols

for whose death ever drove out demons or whose death did demons ever fear as they did that of christ for where the saviour's name is named there every demon is driven out or who has so rid men of the passions of the natural man that whoremongers are chaste and murderers no longer hold the sword and those who were formerly mastered by cowardice play the man

and, in short, who persuaded men of barbarous countries and heathen men in diverse places to lay aside their madness and to mind peace, if it be not the faith of Christ and the sign of the cross?

Or who else has given men such assurance of immortality as has the cross of Christ and the resurrection of his body?

For although the Greeks have told all manner of false tales, yet they were not able to feign a resurrection of their idols, for it never crossed their mind whether it be at all possible for the body again to exist after death.

and here one would most especially accept their testimony inasmuch as by this opinion they have exposed the weakness of their own idolatry while leaving the possibility open to christ so that hence also he might be made known among all as son of god

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