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: <i>the renewal of creatio… - Athanasius of Alexandria

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.

Thus, taking a body like our own, because all our bodies were liable to the corruption of death, He surrendered His body to death instead of all, and offered it to the Father. This He did out of sheer love for us, so that in His death all might die, and the law of death thereby be abolished because, having fulfilled in His body that for which it was appointed, it was thereafter voided of its power for men. This He did that He might turn again to incorruption men who had turned back to corruption, and make them alive through death by the appropriation of His body and by the grace of His resurrection. Thus He would make death to disappear from them as utterly as straw from fire.

For thus, the former Jews also, denying the Word, and saying, 'We have no king but Cæsar John 19:15,' were immediately stripped of all they had, and forfeited the light of the Lamp, the odour of ointment, knowledge of prophecy, and the Truth itself; till now they understand nothing, but are walking as in darkness.

It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.