Origen of Alexandria c. 185–c. 254 ADOn First Principles 2.6.3–5
With this substance of a soul, then, mediating between God and flesh (for it was not possible for the nature of God to be mingled with a body without a mediator), there is born, as we have said, the God-man, that mediating substance being present, for which it was not contrary to nature to take a body. ... that there is a rational soul in Christ, we have shown above. ... The nature of that soul was the same as the nature of all souls; this cannot be doubted, for otherwise it could not even be called a soul, if it was not truly a soul.
Origen's account of the incarnation, a century and a half before Apollinaris: Christ's soul, clinging inseparably to the Word from the beginning, is the mediator by which the Word is joined to flesh, and it is a true rational soul of the same nature as every soul. On First Principles survives in full mainly in Rufinus's Latin translation, which sometimes smooths Origen; the passage is read here in that Latin.