16一位早期的教父亚他那修(Athanasius)论到基督说,“祂成为人,使我们得以成为神。”又说,“话成了肉体,……使我们有分于祂的灵,而得以成为神。”这是神在地上行动的原则。神的行动是在人里面,并借着人。神的行动是要使人在生命和性情上成为神,却无分于神格(约伯记生命读经,一五一至一五二页)。
16Athanasius, one of the early church fathers, said concerning Christ, “He was made man that we might be made God,” and “The Word was made flesh…that we, partaking of His Spirit, might be deified.” This is the principle of God’s move on earth. God’s move is in man and through man. God’s move is to deify man, making man God in life and in nature but not, of course, in the Godhead. (Life-study of Job, p. 129)