“God created human beings and wanted that they remain incorruptible. But people, becoming careless, abandoned the contemplation of God, imagining and inventing evil.… Thus they received the sentence of death, which had been threatened them beforehand. Afterward, they were no longer in the state in which they had been c…”
Athanasius of Alexandria, 4th c. — On the Incarnation of the Word 4
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18And love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption;
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16For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, sheweth herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.
17For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline; and the care of discipline is love;
— Wisdom of Solomon 6:18 —
19And incorruption maketh us near unto God:
20Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.