# De incarnatione (Ms 47) 45.4-7

Athanasius Alexandrinus, De incarnatione (Ms 47), 45.4 to 45.7. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/athanasius-alexandrinus/de-incarnatione-ms-47/45.4

Εἰ δὲ καὶ εἰς ᾅδην τις κατέβη, καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἐκεῖ κατελθόντας ἥρωας ἐπτόηται ὡς θεούς· ἀλλ’ ὁρᾷ τὴν τούτου γενομένην ἀνάστασιν, καὶ τὴν κατὰ τοῦ θανάτου νίκην, καὶ λογίζεται ἐν ἐκείνοις μόνον εἶναι τὸν Χριστὸν ἀληθινὸν Κύριον καὶ Θεόν. Πάντων γὰρ τῶν τῆς κτίσεως μερῶν ἥψατο ὁ Κύριος, καὶ τὰ πάντα πάσης ἀπάτης ἠλευθέρωσε καὶ ἤλεγξεν, ὡς Παῦλός φησιν· ἀπεκδυσάμενος τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ἐξουσίας ἐθριάμβευσεν ἐν τῷ σταυρῷ, ἵνα μηκέτι τις ἀπατηἀπαταθῆναι δυνήθῃ, ἀλλὰ πανταχοῦ τὸν ἀληθινὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγον εὕρῃ. Οὕτω γὰρ λοιπὸν πανταχόθεν συγσυγκλειόμενος ὁ ἄνθρωπος καὶ πανταχοῦ, τουτέστιν ἐν οὐρανῷ, ἐν ᾅδῃ, ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ, ἐπὶ γῆς ἡπλωμένην τὴν τοῦ Λόγου θειότητα βλέπων, οὐκ ἔτι μὲν ἀπατᾶται περὶ Θεοῦ, μόνον δὲ τοῦτον προσκυνεῖ, καὶ δι’ αὐτοῦ καλῶς τὸν Πατέρα γινώσκει. Τούτοις μὲν οὖν καὶ Ἕλληνες εἰκότως δυσωπηθήσονται παρ’ ἡμῶν ἐκ τῶν εὐλόγων. εἰ δὲ μὴ αὐτάρκεις εἶναι τοὺς λόγους ἡγοῦνται πρὸς αἰσχύνην αὐτῶν, κἂν ἐκ τῶν ἐπ’ ὅψεσι πάντων φαινομένων πιστούσθωσαν τὰ λεγόμενα.

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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/.