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Chapter
XXV.
That Deity should be born in our nature, ought not reasonably to
present any strangeness to the minds of those who do
not take too narrow a view of things. For who, when he takes a survey
of the universe, is so simple as not to believe that there is Deity in
everything, penetrating it, embracing it, and seated in it? For all
things depend on Him Who is2002
, nor can there be
anything which has not its being in Him Who is. If, therefore, all
things are in Him, and He in all things, why are they scandalized at
the plan of Revelation when it teaches that God was born among men,
that same God Whom we are convinced is even now not outside mankind?
For although this last form of God’s presence amongst us is not
the same as that former presence, still His existence amongst us
equally both then and now is evidenced; only now He Who holds together
Nature in existence is transfused in us; while at that other
time He was transfused throughout our nature, in order that our
nature might by this transfusion of the Divine become itself divine,
rescued as it was from death, and put beyond the reach of the caprice
of the antagonist. For His return from death becomes to our mortal race
the commencement of our return to the immortal life.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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