Ignatius of Antioch · d. c. 110 AD · Epistle to the Smyrnaeans
Now, He suffered all these things for our sakes, that we might be saved. And He suffered truly, even as also He truly raised up Himself, not, as certain unbelievers maintain, that He only seemed to suffer, as they themselves only seem to be Christians.
Ignatius of Antioch · d. c. 110 AD · Epistle to the Smyrnaeans
For I know that after His resurrection also He was still possessed of flesh, and I believe that He is so now. When, for instance, He came to those who were with Peter, He said to them, Lay hold, handle Me, and see that I am not an incorporeal spirit.
Ignatius of Antioch · d. c. 110 AD · Epistle to the Smyrnaeans
They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again. Those, therefore, who speak against this gift of God, incur death in the midst of their disputes.
Ignatius of Antioch · d. c. 110 AD · Epistle to the Trallians
But if, as some who are atheists — that is, unbelievers — say, he suffered only in appearance (τὸ δοκεῖν), while they themselves are the ones who are “appearance,” why am I in bonds? Why do I also pray to fight with beasts? Then I die for nothing.
Ignatius of Antioch · d. c. 110 AD · Epistle to the Trallians
Stop your ears, then, when anyone speaks to you apart from Jesus Christ — who was of David’s family, who was of Mary; who was truly born, ate and drank; was truly persecuted under Pontius Pilate; was truly crucified and died, while beings in heaven and on earth and under the earth looked on;
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…
That Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Truly Man, as Opposed to the Fancies of Heretics, Who Deny that He Took Upon Him True Flesh. But of this I remind you, that Christ was not to be expected in the Gospel in any other wise than as He was promised before by the Creator, in the Scriptures of the Old Testament;