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Salvation in Christ

Salvation · 5 passages · 97 more on file · Broad agreement in this library · Against: Marcionism, Ebionitism

Rescue is through the incarnate Son, not secret knowledge alone.

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Barnabas — 5.1

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

For this reason the Lord endured handing over his flesh to corruption: that we might be cleansed by the forgiveness of sins, which is by the sprinkling of his blood.

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Ignatius — To the Ephesians 7

Ignatius of Antioch · d. c. 110 AD · To the Ephesians

There is one physician, both fleshly and spiritual, begotten and unbegotten, God in a human, true life in death, both from Mary and from God, first passible and then impassible — Jesus Christ our Lord.

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εἷς ἰατρός ἐστιν, σαρκικός τε καὶ πνευματικός, γεννητὸς καὶ ἀγέννητος, ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ Θεός, ἐν θανάτῳ ζωὴ ἀληθινή, καὶ ἐκ Μαρίας καὶ ἐκ Θεοῦ, πρῶτον παθητὸς καὶ τότε ἀπαθής, Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν.

Mathetes — To Diognetus 9

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

When our unrighteousness was fulfilled, and it was fully shown that its wages — punishment and death — were to be expected, then the time came which God had appointed to show his kindness and power. He did not hate us or reject us or remember evil. He was patient.

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Hippolytus — Refutation of All Heresies 10.34

Hippolytus · c. 170–c. 235 AD · Refutation of All Heresies

Taught who the true God is, you will escape these things. You will have an immortal body, incorruptible together with the soul, and you will receive the kingdom of the heavens — you who lived on earth and came to know the heavenly King.

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Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἐκφεύξῃ θεὸν τὸν ὄντα διδαχθείς, ἕξεις δὲ ἀθάνατον τὸ σῶμα καὶ ἄφθαρτον ἅμα ψυχῇ, [καὶ] βασιλείαν οὐρανῶν ἀπολήψῃ, ὁ ἐν γῇ βιοὺς καὶ ἐπουράνιον βασιλέα ἐπιγνούς, ἔσῃ δὲ ὁμιλητὴς θεοῦ καὶ συγκληρονόμος Χριστοῦ, οὐκ ἐπιθυμίαις ἢ πάθεσι καὶ νόσοις δουλούμενος.

Methodius of Olympus — Symposium 8 (Word incarnate; dragon)

Methodius of Olympus · d. c. 311 AD · Symposium (Banquet of the Ten Virgins)

And as arch-shepherd and arch-prophet, the Word also became arch-virgin for the church by becoming human. John, taken by Christ, shows this to us in the book of Revelation when he says: “I looked, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion.” Christ, long since conceived, was not snatched away to God’s throne the…

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ὅτι δὲ καὶ ἀρχιπάρθενος, ὃν τρόπον καὶ ἀρχιποιμὴν καὶ ἀρχιπροφήτης, γέγονεν ὁ λόγος ἐνανθρωπήσας τῆς ἐκκλησίας· καὶ ὁ χριστόληπτος ἡμῖν παρίστησιν ἐν βίβλῳ τῆς Ἀποκαλύψεως Ἰωάννης λέγων· καὶ εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ τὸ ἀρνίον ἑστὼς ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρος Σιών.

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