That day
Monday, 18 December 2006
The verse
“But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”Romans 5:8 · 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.