Pierre Du Moulin

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

which of mankind again after his death or else while living taught concerning virginity and for this virtue is not impossible among men but christ our saviour and king of all had such power in his teaching concerning it that even children not yet arrived at the lawful age vow that virginity which lies beyond the law

what man has ever yet been able to pass so far as to come among scythians and aethiopians or persians and armenians or goths or those we hear of beyond the ocean or those beyond hyrrenia or even the egyptians and chaldees men that mind magic and are superstitious beyond nature and savage in their ways and to preach at all about virtue and self-control and against the worshipping of idols as has the lord of all the power of god our lord jesus christ

who not only preached by means of his own disciples but also carried persuasion to men's mind to lay aside the fierceness of their manners and no longer to serve their ancestral gods but to learn to know him and through him to worship the father for formerly while in idolatry greeks and barbarians used to war against each other and were actually cruel to their own kin

for it was impossible for any one to cross sea or land at all without arming the hand with swords because of their implacable fighting amongst themselves for the whole course of their life was carried on by arms and the sword with them took the place of a staff and was their support in every emergency and still as i said before they were serving idols and offering sacrifices to demons

while for all their idolatrous superstition they could not be reclaimed from this spirit but when they have come over to the school of christ then strangely enough as men truly pricked to the heart they have laid aside the savagery of their murders and no longer mind the things of war but all is at peace with them and from thenceforth what makes for friendship is to their liking

Who then is he that has done this, or who is he that has united in peace men that hated one another, save the beloved Son of the Father, the common Saviour of all, even Jesus Christ, who by his own love underwent all things for our salvation?

For even from of old it was prophesied of the peace he was to usher in, where the Scripture says, They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their pikes into sickles, and nation shall not take the sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

and this is at least not incredible inasmuch as even now those barbarians who have an innate savagery of manners while they still sacrifice to the idols of their country are mad against one another and cannot endure to be a single hour without weapons but when they hear the teaching of christ

straightway instead of fighting they turn to husbandry and instead of arming their hands with weapons they raise them in prayer and in a word in place of fighting among themselves henceforth they arm against the devil and against evil spirits subduing these by self-restraint and virtue of soul

now this is at once a proof of the divinity of the saviour since what men could not learn among idols they have learned from him and no small exposure of the weakness and nothingness of idols and demons for demons knowing their own weakness for this reason formerly set men to make war against one another lest if they ceased from mutual strife they should turn to battle against demons

Why, they who become disciples of Christ, instead of warring with each other, stand arrayed against demons by their habits and their virtuous actions, and they rout them, and mock at their captain the devil, so that in youth they are self-restrained, in temptations endure, in labors persevere, when insulted they are patient, when robbed make light of it, and, wonderful as it is, they despise even death and become martyrs of Christ.

and to mention one proof of the divinity of the saviour which is indeed utterly surprising what mere man or magician or tyrant or king was ever able by himself to engage with so many and to fight the battle against all idolatry and the whole demoniacal host and all magic and all the wisdom of the greeks while they were so strong and still flourishing and imposing upon all

and at one onset to check them all as was our lord the true word of god who invisibly exposing man's errors is by himself bearing off all men from them all so that while they who were worshipping idols now trample upon them those in repute for magic burn their books and the wise prefer to all studies the interpretation of the gospels for whom they used to worship them they are deserting and whom they used to mock as one crucified him they worship as christ confessing him to be god

and they that are called gods among them are routed by the sign of the cross while the crucified saviour is proclaimed in all the world as god and the son of god and the gods worshipped among the greeks are falling into ill repute at their hands as scandalous beings while those who receive the teaching of christ live a chaster life than they

if then these and the like are human works let him who will point out similar works on the part of men of former time and so convince us but if they prove to be and are not men's works but god's why are the unbelievers so irreligious as not to recognize the master that wrought them

for their cause is as though a man from the works of creation failed to know god their artificer for if they knew his godhead from his power over the universe they would have known that the bodily works of christ also are not human but are the works of the saviour of all the word of god and did they thus know they would not as paul said have crucified the lord of glory

as then if a man should wish to see god who is invisible by nature and not seen at all he may know and apprehend him from his works so let him who fails to see christ with his understanding at least apprehend him by the works of his body and test whether they be human works or gods works and if they be human let him scoff

but if they are not human but of god let him recognize it and not laugh at what is no matter for scoffing but rather let him marvel that by so ordinary a means things divine have been manifested to us and that by death immortality has reached to all and that by the word becoming man his universal providence has been known and its giver and artificer the very word of god for he was made man that we might be made god and he manifested himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen father

and he endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality for while he himself was in no way injured being impassible and incorruptible and very word and god men who were suffering and for whose sakes he endured all this he maintained and preserved his own impassibility

and in a word the achievements of the saviour resulting from his becoming man are of such kind and number that if one should wish to enumerate them he may be compared to men who gaze at the expanse of the sea and wish to count its waves for as one cannot take in the whole of the waves with his eyes

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