We will begin, then, with the creation of the world and wit… - Athanasius of Alexandria

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We will begin, then, with the creation of the world and with God its Maker, for the first fact that you must grasp is this: the renewal of creation has been wrought by the Self-same Word Who made it in the beginning. There is thus no inconsistency between creation and salvation for the One Father has employed the same Agent for both works, effecting the salvation of the world through the same Word Who made it in the beginning.

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Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 297 – 373) was the twentieth bishop of Alexandria. He who was a Christian theologian, a Church Father, a Doctor of the Church for Roman Catholics, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century.

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Native Name: Ἀθανάσιος

Alternative Names: Athanasius Alexandrinus • Sint Atanaze d’ Alegzandreye • Saint Athanasius • Athanasius • Athanasios of Alexandria • Athanasius I of Alexandria • Athanasius the Great • Athanasius the Confessor • Athanasius the Apostolic • Athanasius Contra Mundum • Athanasias

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the first fact that you must grasp is this: the renewal of creation has been wrought by the Self-same Word Who made it in the beginning.

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For just as, though invisible, He is known through the works of creation; so, having become man, and being in the body unseen, it may be known from His works that He Who can do these is not man, but the Power and Word of God.

The people who walk angelically according to their free will and practice discipline in the life of the angels remove themselves completely from the desires of the flesh, beloved brothers; they die daily in the life that belongs to earth, but they live in the life of the angels, just as they share in the life of the Lord.

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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