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#1. We see the fitness of His death and of those outstretched arms: it was that He might draw His ancient people with the one and the Gentiles with the other, and join both together in Himself.

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#2. There were thus two things which the Savior did for us by becoming Man. He banished death from us and made us anew; and, invisible and imperceptible as in Himself He is, He became visible through His works and revealed Himself as the Word of the Father, the Ruler and King of the whole creation.

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#3. For, indeed, everything about is marvelous, and wherever a man turns his gaze he sees the Godhead of the Word and is smitten with awe.

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#4. For God has not only created us from nothing, but also granted us by the grace of the Word to live a life according to God.

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#5. You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

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#6. Evil, then consists essentially in the choice of what is lower in preference to what is higher.

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#7. For we were the purpose of his embodiment, and for our salvation he so loved human beings as to come to be and appear in a human body.

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#8. You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.

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#9. This distinctness of things argues not a spontaneous generation but a prevenient Cause; and from that Cause we can apprehend

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#10. Heracles is worshipped as a god by the Greeks because he fought with humans equal to himself and killed wild beasts by guile. But what was that compared to what was done by the Word, who banished sicknesses and demons and death itself from human beings?

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#11. So purity of soul is sufficient of itself to reflect God, as the Lord also says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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#12. Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.

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#13. (2) In regard to the making of the universe and the creation of all things there have been various opinions, and each person has propounded the theory that suited his own taste. For instance, some say that all things are self-originated and,

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#14. For by nature human beings are afraid of death and of the dissolution of the body. But this is most amazing, that one who has put on the faith of the cross scorns even things according to nature, and is not afraid of death because of Christ.

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#15. Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.

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#16. For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.

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#17. The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good.

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#18. God became man so that man might become a god.

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#19. For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.

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#20. The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

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#21. Christ was made man that we might be made God.

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#22. Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.

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#23. For no part of Creation is left void of him: he has filled all things everywhere ...

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#24. The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.

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#25. The Greek philosophers have compiled many works with persuasiveness and much skill in words; but what fruit have they to show for this such as has the cross of Christ? Their wise thoughts were persuasive enough until they died;

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#26. Our Lord took on a body like ours and lived as a man in order that those who had refused to recognize Him in His superintendence and capacity of the whole universe might come to recognize from the works He did here below in the body that what dwelled in this body was the Word of God.

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#27. He became what we are so that he might make us what he is.

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#28. the presence of the Word with them shielded them even from natural corruption,

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#29. He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is.

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#30. Idolatry, especially that of the body, is for Athanasius a kind of barometer, measuring the perversity into which humans have fallen, the degree to which their knowledge of God has been lost, and the extent to which the image of God in them obscured, the consequence of which is corruption and death.

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#31. A new book is still on its trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it.

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#32. Through death deathlessness has been made known to us,

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