many who find that “nothing happens” when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they ar… - Athanasius of Alexandria

it belonged to none other to bring man back from the corruption which had begun, than the Word of God, Who had also made them from the beginning.

And thus, taking from ours that which is like, since all were liable to the corruption of death, delivering it over to death on behalf of all, he offered it to the Father, doing this in his love for human beings, so that, on the one hand, with all dying in him the law concerning corruption in human beings might be undone,and, on the other hand, that as human beings had turned towards corruption he might turn them again to incorruptibility and give them life from death, by making the body his own and by grace of the resurrection banishing death from them as straw from the fire.

Christ was made man that we might be made God.