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.
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);
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.
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.
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…