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Indeed, as +Athanasius the Great wrote, "God became man so that men might thereby become gods".

Incidentally, a series of sermons misattributed to Augustine paraphrases this statement of Athanasius and was incorporated into the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa under Augustine's name.

Cassian's influence in the West was driven by St. Benedict, whose rule mandates reading Cassian's Institutes and whose iconography often depicts him carrying that same work.

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St. John Cassian