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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Athanasius
DESCRIPTION:HE HIGHLY \nEXALTED HIM \nBy St Athanasius \n◊◊◊ \nSince…the Word\, being the Image of the Father and immortal\, took the \nform of a servant\, and as man underwent for us death in His flesh\, that thereby \nHe might offer Himself for us through death to the Father; therefore also\, as \nman\, He is said because of us and for us to be highly exalted\, that as by His death \nwe all died in Christ\, so again in the Christ Himself we might be highly exalted\, \nbeing raised from the dead\, and ascending into heaven\, “where the forerunner \nis for us entered\, not into the figures of the true\, but into heaven itself\, now to \nappear in the presence of God for us.” \nBut if now for us the Christ is entered into heaven itself\, though He was \neven before and always Lord of the heavens\, for us therefore is that present \nexaltation also written. And as He Himself\, who sanctifies all\, says also that He \nsanctifies Himself to the Father for our sakes\, not that the Word may become \nholy\, but that He Himself may in Himself sanctify all of us\, in like manner we \nmust take the present phrase\, “He highly exalted Him“\, not that He Himself \nshould be exalted\, for He is the highest\, but that He may become righteousness \nfor us; and we may be exalted in Him\, and that we may enter the gates of heaven\, \nwhich He has also opened for us\, the forerunners saying\, “Lift up your heads\, O \ngates\, and be lift up everlasting doors\, and the King of Glory shall come in.“ \nFor here also not on Him were shut the gates\, who is Lord and Maker of all\, but \nbecause of us is this too written\, to whom the door of paradise was shut. And \ntherefore in a human relation\, because of the flesh which He bore\, it is said of \nHim\, “Lift up\, O gates” “and the King of Glory shall come in”\, as if humanity \nwere entering; but in a divine relation on the other hand it is said of Him\, since \nthe “Word was God“\, that He is the “Lord” and the “King of Glory”. For as \nChrist died and was exalted as man\, so\, as man\, is He said to take what\, as God \nHe ever had\, that even this so high a grant of grace might reach to us.
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