The Word of God therefore acted consistently in taking a body and using a human instrument, both to give life to the body and, just as He is known in creation through His works, to act also in a human being and show Himself everywhere, leaving nothing without His divinity or the knowledge of Him.
I repeat what I said before: the Savior did this so that, just as by His presence He fills all things everywhere, He might also fill all things with the knowledge of Himself, as divine Scripture says, “The whole earth was filled with the knowledge of the Lord.”
If someone wishes to look up to heaven, he sees its ordered arrangement. If he cannot look as high as heaven but looks only at human beings, he sees through Christ’s works His power beyond comparison with human power and learns that He alone among human beings is God the Word. If someone has gone astray among demons and is terrified by them, he sees Christ driving them out and judges that He is their Master. Or if someone has sunk into the realm of the waters and thinks they are God, as the Egyptians worship water, he sees their nature changed by Him and learns that the Lord is the Creator of the waters.
And if someone has gone down even to Hades and stands in awe of the heroes who descended there, regarding them as gods, he sees Christ’s Resurrection and His victory over death and concludes that among them Christ alone is the true Lord and God.
For the Lord touched every part of creation, freed all things from every deception, and exposed deception for what it was. As Paul says, “Having put off from Himself the principalities and the powers, He triumphed on the Cross,” so that no one might be deceived any longer, but everywhere might find the true Word of God.
Thus the human being, surrounded on every side and seeing the divinity of the Word spread everywhere—in heaven, in Hades, in a human being, and on earth—is no longer deceived about God, but worships Him alone and through Him rightly knows the Father.
By these reasonable arguments, then, the Greeks may rightly be put to shame by us. But if they think these arguments are not sufficient to shame them, let them at least be convinced by the facts visible to everyone.