I got started last Sunday preaching through chapter 8 of the
confession “Of Christ the Mediator.” To prepare I’m reviewing Athanasius’s On the Incarnation (using the volume in
the Popular Patristics Series from SVS Press).
Athanasius compares the incarnation to a king entering a
city:
You know how it is when
some great king enters a large city and dwells in one of its houses; because of
his dwelling in that single house, the whole city is honoured, and enemies and
robbers cease to molest it. Even so it is 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. For the
human race would have utterly perished had not the Lord and Saviour of all, the
Son of God, come among us to put an end to death (35).
JTR
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