# De incarnatione (Ms 47) 13.7

Athanasius Alexandrinus, De incarnatione (Ms 47), Chapter 13. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/athanasius-alexandrinus/de-incarnatione-ms-47/13.7

Τί οὖν ἔδει ποιεῖν τὸν Θεόν; ἢ τί ἔδει γενέσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἢ τὸ κατ’ εἰκόνα πάλιν ἀνανεῶσαι, [νᾷ δ’ αὐτοῦ πάλιν αὐτὸν γνῶναι δυνηθῶσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι; τοῦτο δὲ πῶς ἄν ἐγεγόνει, εἰ μὴ αὐτῆς τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ Θεἰκόνος παραγενομένης τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ; δι’ ἀνθρώπων μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἦν δυνατὸν, ἐπεὶ καὶ αὐτοὶ κατ’ εἰκόνα γεγόνασιν· ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ δ’ ἀγγέλων οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ αὐτοί εἰσιν εἰκόνες. ὅθεν ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος δι’ ἑαυτοῦ παρεγένετο, ἵν’ ὡς εἰκὼν ὧν τοῦ Πατρὸς τὸν κατ’ εἰκόνα ἄνθρωπον τίσαι δυνηθῇ.

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Athanasius of Alexandria, De incarnatione (Ms 47), ed. Archibald Robertson. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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