Theosis (Deification)

Cf. infr. Orat. iv. 6. vid. also iii. 33 init. August. Trin. xiii. 18. Id. in Psalm 129, n. 12. Leon. Serm. 28, n. 3. Basil. in Psalm 48, n. 4. Cyril. de rect. fid. p. 132. vid. also Procl. Orat. i. p

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Chapter XXV. That Deity should be born in our nature, ought not reasonably to present any strangeness us; while at that other time He was transfused throughout our nature, in order that our nature mi

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Chapter XXXV. But the descent into the water, and the trine immersion of the person in it, involves another mystery. For since the method of our salvation was made effectual not so much by His precep

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1. If, however, any one say, “What then? Could not God have exhibited man as perfect from beginning?” let him know that, inasmuch as God is indeed always the same and unbegotten as respects Himself, a

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Psalm LIII. Lat. LII. From a sermon preached to the people at the request of some one, perhaps of a bishop.—Ben. 1. Of this Psalm we undertake to treat with you, as far as the Lord supplieth us. A b

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§54. The Word Incarnate, as is the case with the Invisible God, is known to us by His works. By them we recognise His deifying mission. Let us be content to enumerate a few of them, leaving their dazz

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§9. The Word, since death alone could stay the plague, took a mortal body which, united with Him, should avail for all, and by partaking of His immortality stay the corruption of the Race. By being ab

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I answer that, Everything which is raised up to what exceeds its nature, must be prepared by some disposition above its nature; as, for example, if air is to receive the form of fire, it must be prepa

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33. Who will not admire this? or who will not agree that such a thing is truly divine? for if the works of the Word’s Godhead had not taken place through the body, man had not been deified; and again,

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Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

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How then may one root out this evil passion? how subdue (ὑποσκελίσειε) this violent fever? Let us see whence it had its birth, and let us remove the cause. Whence is it wont to arise? From arrogance a

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2. Another reason why the saints and their virtues are called spiritual, (and which is the principal thing.) is, that the Spirit of God, dwelling as a vital principle in the souls, produces there thos

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1.As it has been clearly demonstrated that 2. For as it was not possible that the man who had once for all been conquered, and who had been destroyed through disobedience, could reform himself, and o

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1. Inasmuch, therefore, as the opinions of certain [orthodox persons] are derived from heretical discourses, they are both ignorant of God’s dispensations, and of the mystery of the resurrection of th

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Cf. Hist. Ar. 80, n. 11. περιεργάζεσθαι· vid. Or. ii. 34, n. 5. Orat. ii. 53, n. 4; Orat. iv. 33 init. Ps. xxxii. 9; xlix. 20. Jer. v. 8. Luke xiii. 32. Matt. x. 16. 19. Again, taking patterns

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Oration XXI. On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. The reference in §22 to “the Council which sat first at Seleucia…and afterwards at this mighty city,” leaves no room for doubting that the

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42. And so too the words ‘gave Him’ are not written because of the Word Himself; for even before He became man He was worshipped, as we have said, by the Angels and the whole creation in virtue of bei

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