In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. "35”, “For the Word, realizing that in no other way would the corruption of human beings be undone except, simply, by dying, yet being immortal and the Son of the Father of the Word was not able to die, for this reason he takes to himself a body capable of death, in order that it, participating in the Word who is above all, might be sufficient for death on behalf of all, and through the indwelling Word would remain incorruptible, and so corruption might henceforth cease from all by the grace of the resurrection.”, “You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.”, “Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound hand and foot the passers-by sneer at him, hitting him and abusing him, no longer afraid of his cruelty and rage, because of the king who has conquered him. Simply in order that through this gift of Godlikeness in themselves they may be able to perceive the Image Absolute, that is the Word Himself, and through Him to apprehend the Father; which knowledge of their Maker is for men the only really happy and blessed life.”, “This distinctness of things argues not a spontaneous generation but a prevenient Cause; and from that Cause we can apprehend”, “Heracles is worshipped as a god by the Greeks because he fought with humans equal to himself and killed wild beasts by guile. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these. He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is. For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. And when they answered mind is first and the inventor of letters, Antony said, 'Whoever, therefore, has a sound mind has not need of letters.'. “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.300, Aeterna Press. St. Athanasius: And once more, if the devil, the enemy of our race, having fallen from heaven, wanders about . Ar. God became man so that man might become a god. They would be no better than the beasts, had they no knowledge save of earthly things; and why should God have made them at all, if He had not intended them to know Him? “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.344, Aeterna Press, Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). Which is first, mind or letters? "Those who maintain 'There was a time when the Son was not' rob God of his Word, like plunderers." Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. Antony ... used to say that it behooved a man to give all his time to his soul rather than his body, yet to grant a short space to the body through its necessities; but all the more earnestly to give up the whole remainder to the soul and seek its profit, that it might not be dragged down by the pleasures of the body, but, on the contrary, the body might be in subjection to the soul. If he [Anthony] heard of a good man anywhere, like the prudent bee, he went forth and sought him, nor turned back to his own palace until he had seen him; and he returned, having got from the good man as it were supplies for his journey in the way of virtue. Even so is it with the King of all; He has come into our country and dwelt in one body amidst the many, and in consequence the designs of the enemy against mankind have been foiled and the corruption of death, which formerly held them in its power, has simply ceased to be.