Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series, Volume IV: St. Athanasius Select Works and Letters

by Philip Schaff; Henry Wace; Athanasius of Alexandria

Publisher:

Christian Literature Company

, 1892

Overview

This edition of Phillip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers includes major works of Athanasius of Alexandria.

Product Details

• Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series, Volume IV
• Author: Phillip Schaff
• Publisher: Christian Literature Company
• Publication Date: 1888

Contents

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“Whence, lest this should be so, being good, He gives them a share in His own Image, our Lord Jesus Christ, and makes them after His own Image and after His likeness: so that by such grace perceiving the Image, that is, the Word of the Father, they may be able through Him to get an idea of the Father, and knowing their Maker, live the happy and truly blessed life.” (Page 42)

“Whence, naturally, willing to profit men, He sojourns here as man, taking to Himself a body like the others, and from things of earth, that is by the works of His body [He teaches them], so that they who would not know Him from His Providence and rule over all things, may even from the works done by His actual body know the Word of God which is in the body, and through Him the Father.” (Page 44)

“The philosophers of the Greeks say that the universe is a great body⁵; and rightly so. For we see it and its parts as objects of our senses. If, then, the Word of God is in the Universe, which is a body, and has united Himself with the whole and with all its parts, what is there surprising or absurd if we say that He has united Himself⁶ with man also.” (Page 58)

“But knowing once more how the will of man could sway to either side, in anticipation He secured the grace given them by a law and by the spot where He placed them. For He brought them into His own garden, and gave them a law: so that, if they kept the grace and remained good, they might still keep the life in paradise without sorrow or pain or care, besides having the promise of incorruption in heaven; but that if they transgressed and turned back, and became evil, they might know that they were incurring that corruption in death which was theirs by nature: no longer to live in paradise, but cast out of it from that time forth to die and to abide in death and in corruption.” (Pages 37–38)

Product Details

• Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.4: St. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters
• Authors: Philip Schaff, Henry Wace, Athanasius of Alexandria
• Series: Early Church Fathers (Protestant Edition)
• Volume: 4
• Publisher: Christian Literature Company
• Print Publication Date: 1892
• Logos Release Date: 2001
• Era: era:nicene
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
• Resource ID: LLS:6.60.18
• Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-19T23:48:53Z