Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (c. 340 – 4 April 397) “But according to the Scriptures we have been taught that death is threefold. One death is when we die to sin, but live to God. Blessed, then, is that death which, escaping from sin, and devoted to God, separates us from what is mortal and […]
Basil on Knowing God
Basil of Caesarea (329-379) 1Co 13:9-12 NET. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, (10) but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside. (11) When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became […]
Cyril of Alexandria on Substitutionary Atonement
Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 – 444) – Patriarch of Alexandria For that there is no obedience without reward, and on the other hand, no disobedience without penalty, is made plain by what God spoke by His holy prophet to those who disregarded Him: “Behold, they who serve Me shall eat, but you shall suffer […]
Athanasius on Substitutionary Atonement
Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria (296 – 373) “The Word, being the Image of the Father and immortal, took the form of the servant, and as man underwent for us death in His flesh, that thereby He might offer Himself for us through death to the Father . . . Formerly the world, as guilty, was […]