If He did not rise, but is still dead, how
is it that He routs and persecutes and overthrows the false gods, whom unbelievers
think to be alive, and the evil spirits whom they worship? For where Christ is
named, idolatry is destroyed and the fraud of evil spirits is exposed; indeed,
no such spirit can endure that Name, but takes to flight on sound of it. This
is the work of One Who lives, not of one dead; and, more than that, it is the
work of God. ~Athanasius, On the
Incarnation