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 off… - Athanasius of Alexandria

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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.

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About Athanasius of Alexandria

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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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.

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