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Lent Day 22: Athanasius: Life of Anthony: Chaps. 11-20

...with the demons”; and being full of the Spirit, “through him the Lord healed the bodily ailments of many present, and cleansed others from evil spirits” and with godly wisdom he countless counselled many various people in need. He began preaching from Romans 8:32 about how God didn’t hold anything back, but gave up even his only Son, and continued “exhorting all to prefer the love of Christ before all that is in the world”, which led many to prefer the solitary life of devotion to God than to their worldly pleasures, and eventually caused many groups to gather “even in the mountains, and the desert was colonised by monks, who came forth from the...

Melchizedek to Jesus: The Divine Thread of Bread and Wine

...ners with demons” (v.20). This is to say that it is more than mere symbolism going on when we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, and partaking in an unworthy manner can mean you are profaning the body and blood of Christ, and is the reason some people are sick and have died (1 Corinthians 11:27–31)! This understanding has been carried through the history of the Church, from early writers such as Ignatuis (c.110) writing against the docetic heresy, who said, “they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Smyrnaeans, VII) and he even calls it the “medicine of immortality” in his letter to the Ephesians; to Justin Martyr (c...

God before ages becomes an infant!

...nded, the demons take to flight, the power of death is broken, paradise is unlocked, the curse is taken away, sin is removed from us, error driven out, truth has been brought back, the speech of kindliness diffused, and spreads on every side, a heavenly way of life has been ‘in planted on the earth, angels communicate with men without fear, and men now hold speech with angels.Why is this? Because God is now on earth, and man in heaven; on every side all things commingle. He became Flesh. He did not become God. He was God. Wherefore He became flesh, so that He Whom heaven did not contain, a manger would this day receive. He was placed in a manger, so that He, b...