That day
Friday, 29 December 2006
The verse
“For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.”2 Timothy 1:7 · 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.