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On Luke 10:22

On Luke 10:22

St. Athanasius of Alexandria

14 min read

Nicene

A short exegetical treatise on Luke 10:22 and Matthew 11:27 ("all things have been delivered to me by my Father"), answering the Arian appeal to the text and showing it speaks of the Incarnation rather than a temporal bestowal of lordship.

Table of Contents

1This text refers not to the eternal Word but to the Incarnate 2Sense in which, and end for which all things were delivered to the Incarnate Son 3By 'all things' is meant the redemptive attributes and power of Christ 4The text John xvi. 15, shews clearly the essential relation of the Son to the Father 5The same text further explained 6The Trisagion wrongly explained by Arians. Its true significance