Isaiah 61:1
Douay-Rheims
The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.
Athanasius of Alexandria
What is there to wonder at, what to disbelieve, if the Lord who gives the Spirit, is here said himself to be anointed with the Spirit, at a time when, necessity requiring it, he did not refuse in respect of his manhood to call himself inferior to the Spirit?
Source details
A.D. 373 · on Isa 61:1 (Discourses Against the Arians 1.50)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.