Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume II/On Christian Doctrine/Book I/Chapter 11

Chapter 11.—Wisdom Becoming Incarnate, a Pattern to Us of Purification.

11.&#160; But of this we should have been wholly incapable, had not Wisdom condescended to adapt Himself to our weakness, and to show us a pattern of holy life in the form of our own humanity.&#160; Yet, since we when we come to Him do wisely, He when He came to us was considered by proud men to have done very foolishly.&#160; And since we when we come to Him become strong, He when He came to us was looked upon as weak.&#160; But “the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” &#160; And thus, though Wisdom was Himself our home, He made Himself also the way by which we should reach our home.