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Athanasius of Alexandria, on Luke 5:12
Athanasius of Alexandria · c. A.D. 296–373
Luke 5:12 · Douay-Rheims
“And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy, who seeing Jesus, and falling on his face, besought him, saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.”
On this verse:
“(Ep. ad Adelph. 3.) Now the leper worshipped the Lord God in His bodily form, and thought not the Word of God to be a creature because of His flesh, nor because He was the Word did he think lightly of the flesh which He put on; nay rather in a created temple he adored the Creator of all things, falling down on his face, as it follows, And when he saw Jesus he fell on his face, and besought him.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.