Pierre Du Moulin

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

for it were not worthy of god's goodness that the things he had made should waste away because of the deceit practised on men by the devil especially it was unseemly to the last degree that god's handicraft among men should be done away either because of their own carelessness or because of the deceitfulness of evil spirits

so as the irrational creatures were wasting and such good works in course of ruin what was god in his goodness to do suffer corruption to prevail against them and death to hold them fast and where were the profit of their having been made to begin with for better were they not made than once made left to neglect and ruin for neglect reveals weakness and not goodness on god's part if that is he allows his own work to be ruined when once he has made it

more so than if he had never made man at all for if he had not made them none could impute weakness but once he had made them and created them out of nothing it were most monstrous for the work to be ruined and that before the eyes of the maker it was then out of the question to leave men to the current of corruption because this would be unseemly and unworthy of god's goodness

but just as this consequence must needs hold so too on the other side the just claims of god lie against it that god should appear true to the law he had laid down concerning death for it were monstrous for god the father of truth to appear a liar for our profit and preservation

so here once more what possible course was god to take to demand repentance of men for their transgression for this one might pronounce worthy of god as though just as from transgression men have become set towards corruption so from repentance they may once more be set in the way of incorruption

but repentance would firstly fail to guard the just claim of god for he would still be none the more true if men did not remain in the grasp of death nor secondly does repentance call men back from what is their nature it merely stays them from acts of sin

now if there were merely a misdemeanour in question and not a consequent corruption repentance were well enough but if when transgression had once gained a start men became involved in that corruption which was their nature and were deprived of the grace which they had being in the image of god what further step was needed or what was required for such grace and such recall but the word of god which had also at the beginning made every thing out of naught

for his it was once more both to bring the corruptible to incorruption and to maintain intact the just claim of the father upon all for being word of the father and above all he alone of natural fitness was both able to recreate everything and worthy to suffer on behalf of all and to be ambassador for all with the father

For this purpose, then, the incorporeal and incorruptible and immaterial Word of God comes to our realm, howbeit He was not far from us before.

For no part of creation is left void of Him.

He has filled all things everywhere, remaining present with His own Father.

But He comes in condescension to show lovingkindness upon us and to visit us.

and seeing the race of rational creatures in the way to perish and death reigning over them by corruption seeing too that the threat against transgression gave a firm hold to the corruption which was upon us and that it was monstrous that before the law was fulfilled it should fall through

seeing once more the unseemliness of what was come to pass that the things whereof he himself was artificer were passing away seeing further the exceeding wickedness of men and how by little and little they had increased it to an intolerable pitch against themselves and seeing lastly how all men were under the penalty of death he took pity on our race and had mercy on our infirmity and condescended to our corruption

and unable to bear that death should have the mastery lest the creature should perish and his father's handiwork in men be spent for naught he takes unto himself a body and that of no different sort from ours for he did not simply will to become embodied or will merely to appear for if he willed merely to appear he was able to effect his divine appearance by some other and higher means as well

but he takes a body of our kind and not merely so but from a spotless and stainless virgin knowing not a man a body clean and in very truth pure from intercourse of men for being himself mighty and artificer of everything he prepares the body in the virgin as a temple unto himself and makes it his very own as an instrument in it manifested and in it dwelling

and thus taking from our bodies one of like nature because all were under penalty of the corruption of death he gave it over to death in the stead of all and offered it to the father doing this moreover of his loving-kindness to the end that firstly all being held to have died in him the law involving the ruin of men might be undone inasmuch as its power was fully spent in the lord's body and had no longer holding ground against men his peers

and that secondly whereas men had turned towards corruption he might turn them again towards incorruption and quicken them from death by the appropriation of his body and by the grace of the resurrection banishing death from them like straw from the fire

for the word perceiving that no otherwise could the corruption of men be undone save by death as a necessary condition while it was impossible for the word to suffer death being immortal and son of the father to this end he takes to himself a body capable of death that it by partaking of the word who is above all

might be worthy to die in the stead of all and might because of the word which was come to dwell in it remain incorruptible and that thenceforth corruption might be stayed from all by the grace of the resurrection whence by offering unto death the body he himself had taken as an offering and sacrifice free from any stain straightway he put away death from all his peers by the offering of an equivalent

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