# De incarnatione (Ms 47) 48.5

Athanasius Alexandrinus, De incarnatione (Ms 47), Chapter 48. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/athanasius-alexandrinus/de-incarnatione-ms-47/48.5

Εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἄνθρωπός ἐστι· καὶ πῶς εἷς ἄνθρωπος τὴν πάντων τῶν παρ' αὐτοῖς θεῶν δύναμιν ὑπερῆρε, καὶ οὐδὲν ἐκείνους ὄντας τῇ ἑαυτοῦ δυνάμει διήλεγξεν; εἰ δὲ μάγον αὐτὸν λέγουσι· πῶς οἷόν τε ἐστὶν ὑπὸ μάγου καταργεῖσθαι πᾶσαν τὴν μαγείαν, καὶ μὴ μᾶλλον συνίστασθαι; εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἀνθρώπους μάγους ἐνίκα, ἢ καθ’ ἑνὸς ἴσχυε μόνου, καλῶς ἂν ἐνομίσθη παρ’ αὐτοῖς κρείττονι τέχνῃ τὴν τῶν ἄλλων ὑπερβάλλων.

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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/.