Imago Dei

That day

Thursday, 6 July 2006

The verse

“Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.”
Hebrews 4:16 · WEB

From the tradition

“For He was made man that we might be made God; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father”

Athanasius of Alexandria · On the Incarnation of the Word, §54

In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. Archibald Robertson, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, vol. 4, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1892)), checked against the source edition.

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