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Quotation from On the Incarnation of the Word by Athanasius of Alexandria
“that it was in the power of none other to turn the corruptible to incorruption, except the Saviour Himself”
On the Incarnation of the Word, §20. None, then, could bestow incorruption, but He Who had made, none restore the likeness of God, s, trans. Archibald Robertson (1892)
Section 20, restating why only the Word who made humanity could restore it.
Citation: "that it was in the power of none other to turn the corruptible to incorruption, except the Saviour Himself" — Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation of the Word, §20. None, then, could bestow incorruption, but He Who had made, none restore the likeness of God, s, trans. Archibald Robertson (1892). (id athanasius-on-the-incarnation-q3)
