Pierre Du Moulin

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

for there would be nothing to distinguish them even from brute beasts if they had knowledge of nothing but earthly things nay why did god make them at all as he did not wish to be known by them whence lest this should be so being good he gives them a share in his own image our lord jesus christ and makes them after his own image and after his likeness

so that by such grace perceiving the image that is the word of the father they may be able through him to get an idea of the father and knowing their maker live the happy and truly blessed life but men once more in their perversity having set at naught in spite of all this the grace given them so wholly rejected god and so darkened their soul as not merely to forget their idea of god but also to fashion for themselves one invention after another

for not only did they grave idols for themselves instead of the truth and honour things that were not before the living god and serve the creature rather than the creator but worst of all they transferred the honour of god even to stocks and stones and to every material object and to men and went even further than this as we have said in the former treatise

so far indeed did their impiety go that they proceeded to worship devils and proclaim them as gods fulfilling their own lusts for they performed as was said above offerings of brute animals and sacrifices of men as was meet for them binding themselves down all the faster under their maddening inspirations

for this reason it was also that magic arts were taught among them and oracles in divers places led men astray and all men ascribed the influences of their birth and existence to the stars and to all the heavenly bodies having no thought of anything beyond what was visible

and in a word everything was full of irreligion and lawlessness and god alone and his word was unknown albeit he had not hidden himself out of men's sight nor given the knowledge of himself in one way only but had on the contrary unfolded it to them in many forms and by many ways

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for whereas the grace of the divine image was in itself sufficient to make known god the word and through him the father still god knowing the weakness of men made provision even for their carelessness so that if they cared not to know god of themselves they might be enabled through the works of creation to avoid ignorance of the maker but since men's carelessness little by little descends to lower things god made provision once more even for this weakness of theirs by sending a law and prophets

men such as they knew so that even if they were not ready to look up to heaven and know their creator they might have their instruction from those near at hand for men are able to learn from men more directly about higher things so it was open to them by looking into the height of heaven and perceiving the harmony of creation to know its ruler the word of the father

who by his own providence over all things makes known the father to all and to this end moves all things that through him all may know god or if this were too much for them it was possible for them to meet at least the holy men and through them to learn of god the maker of all things the father of christ and that the worship of idols is godlessness and full of all impiety

or it was open to them by knowing the law even to cease from all lawlessness and live a virtuous life for neither was the law for the jews alone nor were the prophets sent for them only but though sent to the jews and persecuted by the jews

they were for all the world a holy school of the knowledge of god and the conduct of the soul god's goodness then and loving-kindness being so great men nevertheless overcome by the pleasures of the moment and by the illusions and deceits sent by demons did not raise their heads towards the truth but loaded themselves the more with evils and sins so as no longer to seem rational but from their ways to be reckoned void of reason

so then men having thus become brutalized and demoniacal deceit thus clouding every place and hiding the knowledge of the true god what was god to do to keep still silence at so great a thing and suffer men to be led astray by demons and not to know god and what was the use of man having been originally made in god's image for it had been better for him to have been made simply like a brute animal than once made rational for him to live the life of the brutes

or where was any necessity at all for his receiving the idea of god to begin with for if he be not fit to receive it even now it were better it had not been given him at first or what profit to god who has made them or what glory to him could it be if men made by him do not worship him but think that others are their makers for god thus proves to have made these for others instead of for himself

once again a merely human king does not let the lands he has colonized pass to others to serve them nor go over to other men but he warns them by letters and often sends to them by friends or if need be he comes in person to put them to rebuke in the last resort by his presence

only that they may not serve others and his own work be spent for naught shall not god much more spare his own creatures that they be not led astray from him and serve things of naught especially since going astray proves the cause of their ruin and undoing and since it was unfitting that they should perish which had once been partakers of god's image

what then was god to do or what was to be done to save the renewing of that which was in god's image so that by it men might once more be able to know him but how could this have come to pass save by the presence of the very image of god our lord jesus christ

for by men's means it was impossible since they are but made after an image nor by angels either for not even they are god's images whence the word of god came in his own person that as he was the image of the father he might be able to create afresh the man after that image but again it could not else have taken place had not death and corruption been done away

whence he took in natural fitness a mortal body that while death might in it be once for all done away men made after his image might once more be renewed none other then was sufficient for this need save the image of the father

for as when the likeness painted on a panel has been effaced by stains from without he whose likeness it is must needs come once more to enable the portrait to be renewed on the same wood for for the sake of his picture even the mere wood on which it is painted is not thrown away but the outline is renewed upon it

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