# De incarnatione (Ms 47) 43.1-2

Athanasius Alexandrinus, De incarnatione (Ms 47), 43.1 to 43.2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/athanasius-alexandrinus/de-incarnatione-ms-47/43.1

Διατί οὖν, ἐὰν λέγωσιν, οὐχὶ δι' ἄλλων μερῶν καλλίονων τῆς κτίσεως ἐφάνη, καὶ καλλίονι ὀργάνῳ, οἷον ἡλίῳ, ἢ σελήνῃ, ἢ ἄστροις, ἢ πυρί, ἢ αἰθέρι οὐ κέχρηται, ἀλλὰ ἀνθρώπῳ μόνον; γινωσκέτωσαν, ὅτι οὐκ ἐπιδείξασθαι ἦλθεν ὁ Κύριος, ἀλλὰ θεραπεῦσαι καὶ διδάξαι τοὺς πάσχοντας. Ἐπιδεικνυμένου μὲν γὰρ ἦν μόνον ἐπιφανῆναι καὶ καταπλῆξαι τοὺς ὁρῶντας· θεραπεύοντος δὲ καὶ διδάσκοντός ἐστι, μὴ ἁπλῶς ἐπιδημῆσαι, ἀλλ’ ἐπ’ ὠφελείᾳ τῶν δεομένων γενέσθαι, καὶ ὡς οἱ χρῄζοντες φέρουσιν ἐπιφανῆναι, ἵνα μὴ τῷ ὑπερβάλλοντι τὴν χρείαν τῶν πασχόντων αὐτοὺς τοὺς δεομένους ταράξῃ, καὶ ἀνωφελὴς τούτοις ἡ ἐπιφάνεια τοῦ θείου γένηται.

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg2035.tlg002.local008/.