In today’s reading from On the Incarnation (Sections 39–45), Athanasius presses the question of Christ’s identity with relentless clarity, drawing together prophecy, history, reason, and the visible transformation of the world. Beginning with Daniel’s prophecy of the seventy weeks, he argues that Scripture itself fixed the time of the Messiah’s coming and declared that prophecy, kingship, and Jerusalem itself would cease once the Holy of Holies had appeared (Daniel 9:24–25). Athanasius shows that this has already happened: there is no king, no prophet, no vision, and no temple among the Jews, while the nations now worship the God of Israel through Christ (Genesis 49:10; Matthew 11:13; Psalm 118:27). Turning to the Greeks, he dismantles the charge that the Incarnation is absurd, arguing instead that the Word who fills the whole creation m ...