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Athanasius on the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
from Athansius, On the Incarnation of the Word of God, chapter 6
FITTING indeed, then, and wholly consonant was the death on the cross for us;
and we can see how reasonable it was, and why it is that the salvation of the
world could be accomplished in no other way. Even on the cross He did not hide
Himself from sight;
rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker. Then, having
once let it be seen that it was truly dead, He did not allow that temple of His
body to linger long, but forthwith on the third day raised it up, impassible and
incorruptible, the pledge and token of His victory.
A very strong proof of this destruction of death and its conquest by the cross
is supplied by a present fact, namely this. All the disciples of Christ despise
death; they take the offensive against it and, instead of fearing it, by the
sign of the cross and by faith
in Christ trample on it as on something dead. Before the divine sojourn of the
Saviour, even the holiest of men were afraid of death, and mourned the dead as
those who perish But now that the Saviour has raised His body, death is no
longer terrible, but all those
who believe in Christ tread it underfoot as nothing, and prefer to die rather
than to deny their faith in Christ, knowing full well that when they die they do
not perish, but live indeed, and become incorruptible through the resurrection.
But that devil who of old
wickedly exulted in death, now that the pains of death are loosed, he alone it
is who remains truly dead.
There is proof of this too ; for men who, before they believe in Christ, think
death horrible and are afraid of it, once they are converted despise it so
completely that they go eagerly to meet it, and themselves become witnesses of
the Saviour’s resurrection from it. Even children hasten thus to die, and not
men only, but women train themselves by
bodily discipline to meet it. So weak has death become that even women, who used
to be taken in by it, mock at it now as a dead thing robbed of all its strength.
Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered’ by the
legitimate monarch; bound hand and foot the passers-by jeer at him, hitting him
and abusing him, no longer afraid of his cruelty and rage, because of the king
who has conquered him. So has death been conquered and branded for what it is by
the Saviour on the cross. It is bound hand and foot, all who are in Christ
trample it as they pass and as witnesses to Him deride it, scoffing and saying,
“ O Death, where is thy victory? 0 Grave, where is thy sting?” (1 Cor. 15. 55)
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Charles Scott, Pastor
Church of the Good Shepherd
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