Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... and serve what has no existence, especially when such errors must turn to their destruction and perdition? It was not therefore fit for beings which had once been partakers of the image of God to perish. What was then fit for God to do, or what else was fit to be done but to provide again for the renovation of what was made after His image, that so thereby men might be able again to know Him? Now how could this be done but by the coming of the image of God itself, our Saviour Jesus Christ? For by means of men this thing could not be done, since themselves were made according to the image; nor indeed by means of angels, since even they are not the images of God. Whence it was that the Word of God came of Himself, that He as being the image of the Father, might be able to create man again who had once been created after that image. Nay even then this had not been done unless death had been, and mortality was to be abolished. Whence He, as it was but reasonable, took a mortal body, that so for the time to come death might by Him be abolished, and men that were made after that image might again be renewed. Wherefore no one was capable of meeting this need but the Image of the Father. 14. For it is here as with the shape of a man engraven in wood but disfigured by external filth; there is occasion for the presence of that man himself again whose statue it is, that so the image may be renewed in the same piece of wood again. For the wood itself wherein the figure is is therefore not cast away, because of its bearing the man's figure; but the figure is engraved over again. In the same manner did that most Holy Son of the Father, who is His very image, come into the places where we live, that he might renew man again who was made after Him, and...
