“For where the Saviour's name is named, there every demon is driven out”

For where the Saviour's name is named, there every demon is driven out

Athanasius of Alexandria · On the Incarnation of the Word, and Against the Heathen · NPNF2 IV, On the Incarnation §50

One of a run of rhetorical questions asking who else has done what Christ has done. In fourth-century Egypt exorcism was the common test of a claim to power, and he is putting the case in the terms his readers would have used to settle it.

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Read in Robertson, NPNF series 2 vol. 4 (1892) · Archibald Robertson

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