Exhortation to the Greeks 11.112

O mystic wonder! The Lord has been laid low, and man has risen; and he who fell from paradise receives a greater prize for obedience: the heavens. So it seems to me that, since the Word himself has come to us from heaven, we need no longer go to human teaching, busying ourselves about Athens and the rest of Greece, and Ionia too. For if our teacher is he who has filled all things with holy powers, with creation, salvation, benefaction, lawgiving, prophecy, and teaching, this teacher now instructs us in all things, and the whole world has already become Athens and Greece through the Word. For you surely will not believe a poetic myth that records Minos of Crete as the familiar friend of Zeus, and then disbelieve us, who have become disciples of God and have taken up the truly real wisdom, which the leaders of philosophy only hinted at, but which the disciples of Christ have both grasped and proclaimed. And indeed, so to speak, the whole Christ … is not divided: there is neither barbarian nor Jew nor Greek, neither male nor female, but a new man, refashioned by the Holy Spirit of God.