Incarnation — Word Made Flesh

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True assumption of human life.

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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: flesh and spirit, born and unborn, God in man, true life in death, from Mary and from God, first able to suffer and then beyond suffering, 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.

Ignatius of Antioch — Epistle to the Trallians 9

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

Go deaf, then, when anyone speaks to you apart from Jesus Christ, of David's line, of Mary, who was truly born, who ate and drank, was truly hounded under Pontius Pilate, was truly crucified and died, while those in heaven, on earth, and under the earth looked on (Philippians 2:10);

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Κωφώθητε οὖν, ὅταν ὑμῖν χωρὶς Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ λαλῇ τις, τοῦ ἐκ γένους Δαυείδ, τοῦ ἐκ Μαρίας, ὃς ἀληθῶς ἐγεννήθη, ἔφαγέν τε καὶ ἔπιεν, ἀληθῶς ἐδιώχθη ἐπὶ Ποντίου Πιλάτον, ἀληθῶς ἐσταυρώθη καὶ ἀπέθανεν, βλεπόντων τῶν ἐπουρανίων καὶ ἐπιγείων καὶ ὑποχθονίων.

Barnabas — Epistle of Barnabas 5

Barnabas · fl. c. 100 AD · Epistle of Barnabas

For to this end the Lord endured to deliver up His flesh to corruption, that we might be sanctified through the remission of sins, which is effected by His blood of sprinkling.

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Εἰς τοῦτο γὰρ ὑπέμεινεν ὁ κύριος παραδοῦναι τὴν σάρκα εἰς καταφθοράν, ἵνα τῇ ἀφέσει τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἁγνισθῶμεν, ὅ ἐστιν ἐν τῷ αἵματι τοῦ ῥαντίσματος αὐτοῦ.

Justin Martyr — First Apology 21

Justin Martyr · c. 100–c. 165 AD · First Apology

And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter.

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Τᾷ δὲ καὶ τὸν λόγον, ὅ ἐστι πρῶτον γέννημα τοῖ θεοῦ, ἄνευ ἐπιμιξίας φάσκειν ἡμᾶς γεγεννῆσθαι, Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν τὸν διδάσκαλον ἡμῶν, καὶ τοῦτον σταυρωθέντα καὶ ἀποθανόντα καὶ ἀναστάντα ἀνεληλυθέναι εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, οὐ παρὰ τοὺς παρ᾿ ὑμῖν λεγομένους υἱοὺς τῷ Διῒ καινόν τι φέρομεν.

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.

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