True God and True Man

Christ · 6 passages · 9 more on file · Against: Docetism, Ebionitism

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Ignatius of Antioch — Epistle to the Ephesians 7

Ignatius of Antioch · d. c. 110 AD · Epistle to the Ephesians

There is one Physician who is possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first passible and then impassible — even Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Εἰώθασιν γάρ τινες δόλῳ πονηρῷ τὸ ὄνομα περιφέρειν, ἄλλα τινὰ πράσσοντες ἀνάξια θεοῦ: οὕς δεῖ ὑμᾶς ὡς θηρία ἐκκλίνειν: εἰσὶν γὰρ κύνες λυσσῶντες, λαθροδῆκται: οὓς δεῖ ὑμᾶς φυλάσσεσθαι ὄντας δυσθεραπεύτους.

Melito of Sardis — Fragment on the Incarnation (Reliquiae Sacrae)

Melito of Sardis · d. c. 180 AD · Incarnation fragment (Reliquiae)

For being God and at the same time a perfect human being, the same one confirmed his two substances to us: his deity through the signs in the three years after baptism, and his humanity in the thirty years before baptism — in which, because of the incompleteness according to the flesh, he hid the signs of his deity…

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Θεὸς γὰρ ὢν ὁμοῦ τε καὶ ἄνθρωπος τέλειος ὁ αὐτὸς τὰς δύο αὐτοῦ οὐσίας ἐπιστώσατο ἡμῖν, τὴν μὲν θεότητα αὐτοῦ διὰ τῶν σημείων ἐν τῇ τριετίᾳ τῇ μετὰ τὸ βάπτισμα, τὴν δὲ ἀνθρωπότητα αὐτοῦ ἐν τοῖς τριάκοντα χρόνοις τοῖς πρὸ τοῦ βαπτίσματος, ἐν οἷς διὰ τὸ ἀτελὲς τὸ κατὰ σάρκα ἀπέκρυβε…

Mathetes — Epistle to Diognetus 7

Mathetes (Epistle to Diognetus) · fl. c. 150 AD · Epistle to Diognetus

For, as I said, this was no mere earthly invention which was delivered to them, nor is it a mere human system of opinion, which they judge it right to preserve so carefully, nor has a dispensation of mere human mysteries been committed to them, but truly God Himself, who is almighty, the Creator of all things, and…

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Οὐ γὰρ ἐπιγειον, ὡς ἔφην, εὕρημα τοῦτ̓ αὐτοῖς παρεδόθη, οὐδὲ θνητὴν ἐπίνοιαν φυλάσσειν οὕτως ἀξιοῦσιν ἐπιμελῶς, οὐδὲ ἀνθρωπίνων οἰκονομίαν I Cor. 9, 17 μυστηρίων πεπίστευνται.

Irenaeus — Against Heresies 3.18

Irenaeus · c. 130–c. 202 AD · Against Heresies

1. As it has been clearly demonstrated that the Word, who existed in the beginning with God, by whom all things were made, who was also always present with mankind, was in these last days, according to the time appointed by the Father, united to His own workmanship, inasmuch as He became a man liable to suffering, it…

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Novatian — On the Trinity 11

Novatian · fl. c. 250 AD · On the Trinity

And Indeed that Christ Was Not Only Man, But God Also; That Even as He Was the Son of Man, So Also He Was the Son of God. But lest, from the fact of asserting that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Creator, was manifested in the substance of the true body, we should seem either to have given assent to other…

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Novatian — On the Trinity 23

Novatian · fl. c. 250 AD · On the Trinity

And This is So Manifest, that Some Heretics Have Thought Him to Be God the Father, Others that He Was Only God Without the Flesh. In this place I may be permitted also to collect arguments from the side of other heretics.

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