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Why did God become man? Athanasius answers by telling the whole story: God made us through His Word, we fell into corruption and death, and the same Word took a body of His own to raise us up again.
It is short, clear and full of joy, and for many people it is the first book of the Fathers they ever read.
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About this edition
Translated by Archibald Robertson, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 4 (1892).
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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