Athanasius of Alexandria, on Luke 12:4

“And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.”

“(pluris estis) Now I ask the Arians, if God, as if disdaining to make all other things, made only His Son, but deputed all things to His Son; how is it that He extends His providence even to such trifling things as our hair, and the sparrows? For upon whatever things He exercises His providence, of these is He the Creator by His own word.”

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