Wow. I can’t believe that it’s December already! It seems like just yesterday I started school again, and now I’ve finished several of my books… And, since it’s December, the Christmas month, I thought I’d share this quote from Athanasius’s On the Incarnation. In this part of the book, he is arguing against the assertions of the Jews that the Messiah has not yet come.

When did prophet and vision cease from Israel? Was it not when Christ came, the Holy One of holies? It is, in fact, a sign and notable proof of the coming of the Word that Jerusalem no longer stands, neither is prophet raised up nor vision revealed among them. And it is natural that it should be so, for when He that was signified had come, what need was there any longer of any so signify Him? And when the Truth had come, of what further need was there of the shadow?

Athanasius, On the Incarnation

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