let him who does not see Christ with his understanding, yet from His bodily works apprehend Him, and test them whether they be man’s or God’s. And if they are human, let him deride, while if they are not human, but Divine, let him recognize it, and not laugh at matters which are not open to derision. Rather let him marvel that by so simple a method Divine things have been manifested to us, and that through death immortality has passed to all, and that by the Incarnation of the Word His universal providence has become known, and its Administrator and Artificer, the Word of God Himself.

For He became Man that we might be made God: and He manifested Himself through the body that we might take cognizance of the invisible Father: and He underwent insult at the hands of men that we might inherit immortality