Athanasius of Alexandria

“[Jesus] breathed on the disciples and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’ ” As soon as these things were done, everything was finished. The altar was broken, and the veil of the temple was torn from top to bottom. And although the city was not yet sacked and destroyed, the abomination of desolation was soon to rest on the temple and the city. The consummation of the ancient ceremonies was at hand.

“The Logos,” as John said, “was made flesh.” Scripture, in fact, has the habit of indicating people with the term “flesh,” as when it says by the mouth of the prophet Joel, “I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,” and as Daniel said to Astyages, “I do not adore idols made by the hands of people, but the living God, who has created the sky and the earth and has power over all flesh,” for he and Joel identify the flesh with the human race.