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JESUS IS GOD The S c ripture Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child shall be born, and unto us a son shall be given. Upon his shoulders shall the kingdom lie, and he shall be called with his own name: the wonderous giver of counsel, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the Prince of peace Matthew 1:23 Behold a maid shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shalt call his name Emmanuel, which is as much to say, by interpretation, as God with us. John 1:1,10,14 In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God: and the word was God. He was in the world, and the world by him was made: and yet the world knew him not. And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten son of the father, which word was full of grace, and verity 1382 Wycliffe Bible: John 1:14 and the word was made man, and dwelled among us, and we have seen the glory of him, as the glory of the one begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and of truth. John 5:18 Therefore the jews sought the more t o kill him, not only because he had broken the Sabbath: but said also that God was his father and made himself equal with God. John 6:44 No man can come to me except my father which hath sent me, draw him. And I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every man which hath heard, and learned of the father, cometh unto me, not that any man hath seen the father, save he which is of God. The same hath seen the father. John 6:50 I am that living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. John 8:24 And he said unto them: ye are from beneath, I am from above. Ye are of this world, I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins. For except ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. John 8:58 Thou art not yet fifty year old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them: Verily, verily I say unto you: yer Abraham was I am. John 10:30 And I and my father are one. Then the jews again took up stones, to stone him withal. Jesus answered them: many good works have I shewed you from my father: for which of them will ye stone me? The jews answered him saying: For thy good works’ sake we stone thee not: but for thy blasphemy, and because that thou being a man, makest thyself God John 10:38 But though ye believe not me, yet believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the father is in me, and I in him. John 14:6 Jesus said unto him I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the father, but by me. If ye had known me ye had known my father also. And now ye know him. And ye have seen him. Philip said unto him: Lord shew us thy father and it sufficeth us. Jesus said unto him: have I been so long time with you: and yet hast thou not known me? Philip, he that hath seen me, hath seen the father. And how sayest thou then: shew us the father? Believest thou not that I am in the father, and the father in me? The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself: but the father dwelling in me is he that doeth the works. Believe that I am in the father, and the father in me. John 16:27 For my father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I went out from the father, and came into the world: and I leave the world again, and go to the father. His disciples said unto him: lo now speakest thou plainly, and thou usest no proverb. Now know we that thou understandest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee any question. Therefore believe we that thou camest from God. Jesus answered them: Now ye do believe John 20:27 Than said he to Thomas: put in thy finger here, and see my hands, and put forth thy hand and thrust him into my side, and be not without faith: but believe. Thomas answered and said unto him: my Lord, and my God. Jesus said unto him: Thomas, because thou hast seen me, therefore hast thou believed: Happy are they that have not seen, and yet believe Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, whereof the holy ghost hath made you overseers, to rule the congregation of God, which he hath purchased with his blood. Philippians 2:5 Let the same mind be in you the which was in Christ Jesus: Which being in the shape of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Nevertheless he made himself of no reputation, and took on him the shape of a servant, and became like unto men, and was found in his apparel as a man Colossians 1:15 [Jesus] which is the image of the invisible God, first begotten before all creatures: for by him were all things created, things that are in heaven, and things that are in earth: things visible, and things invisible: whether they be majesty or lordship, either rule or power Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in him, which is the head of all rule and power 1 Timothy 3:16 God was shewed in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen of angels, was preached unto the gentiles, was believed on in earth and received up in glory. 2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter a servant and an apostle of Je sus Christ, to them which have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness that cometh of our God and saviour Jesus Christ 1 John 5:7 For there are three which bear record in heaven, the father, the word, and the wholy ghost. And these three are one. 1382 Wycliffe Bible: 1 John 5:7 For three be, that give witnessing in heaven, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three be one. T y ndale "Jesus is God, and Almighty. He took our nature upon him, and felt all our infirmities and sicknesses, and in feeling learned to have compassion on us, and for compassion cried mightily in prayers to God the Father for us, and was heard. And the voice of the same blood that once cried, not for vengeance as Abel’s, but for mercy only, as was heard, crieth now and ever, and is ever heard ... He is also called Christus, that is to say, king anointed with all might and power over sin, death and hell, and over all sins. ... He is anointed with all fullness of grace, and hath all the treasure and riches of the Spirit of God in his hand, with which he blesseth all men, according to the promise made to Abraham." ~William Tyndale [Exposition of the First Epistle of St. John] Philippians 2 : 5 [Jesus "emptied" himself of his God nature and became as a humbled servant.] Tyndale "Let the same mind be in you the which was in Christ Jesus: Which being in the shape of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God. Nevertheless he made himself of no reputation, and took on him the shape of a servant, and became like unto men, and was found in his apparel as a man." Wycliffe "A nd feel ye this thing in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; which when he was in the form of God, deemed not raven, himself to be even to God; but he meeked himself, taking the form of a servant, and was made into the likeness of men, and in habit was found as a man. God came down retaining all the attributes of divinity, yet, as a man, he voluntarily restricted their use. Early Church Fathers on the Divinity of Christ "For if he had not come in the flesh, how could we men have been saved, when we look at him? For when men look at the sun, the work of his hands, which will cease to exist, they have not power to face its rays." Barnabas "Who [the Word] being in the beginning with God-became flesh, that he might be comprehended by those who were not able to look at him, in that he was the Word, and was with God, and was God" "Coming down once to that which was not able to look at the dazzling brightness of his divinity, he became in a manner flesh." Irenaeus "God could not have entered into conversation with men, unless he had assumed human feelings and affections, by which he could temper the greatness of his majesty, which would have been intolerable to human weakness, with a humility which might be unworthy of Him, but necessary for man". Tertullian "To the church at Ephesus-which was preordained before the worlds-according to the will of the Father and of Jesus Christ our God". Ignatius "Ye have all been humble-minded, arrogant in nothing, subjected rather than subjecting, giving rather then receiving, being satisfied with the supplies sent by God: and paying careful attention to His words, ye have fixed them deeply in your minds, and His sufferings were before your eyes". Clement of Rome "The holy scriptures speaking of God in the flesh, and the flesh of God when he became man, do mention the blood and sufferings and resurrection of the body of God". Ignatius "The words 'blood of the grape' are used purposely to express, that Christ has blood, not from the seed of man, but from the power of God. For in the same manner that man does not produce the blood of the vine, but God; so also this passage foretold, that the blood of Christ was not to be of human orgin, but from the power of God: and this prophecy shews, that Christ is not a man, begotten of men according to the common law of men. Men are redeemed by the blood of the grape, which has God dwelling in it, and is spiritual" Ignatius "I well know, we are not our own, but bought with a price: and what sort of price? The blood of God". Tertullian "The holy blood of our God Jesus Christ is not corruptible, nor the blood of a mortal man such as ourselves, but of very God". Dionysius of Alexandria "Our God Jesus Christ was conceived by Mary, according to the dispensation of God, of the seed indeed of David, but of the Holy Ghost". Ignatius "Then all magic art was destroyed, and every bond of iniquity was abolished; ignorance was put away, the old kingdom was destroyed, when God manifest humanly for the newness of eternal life". Ignatius "Keep yourselves then from such men: and you will do this, if ye are not puffed up, and if ye do not separate from God Jesus Christ". Ignatius "The Jews, who think that it was always God the father who spoke to Moses, (whereas he who spoke to him was the Son of God, who is also called an Angel, and an Apostle) are justly convicted both by the prophetical spirit, and by Christ himself, for knowing neither the Father nor the Son." Justin Martyr "It was Christ who said to Moses "I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt."" Clement of Alexandria "It was Christ who spoke to Moses and consequently who delivered the whole of the Law" Origen "It was Christ who appeared to Joshua near Jericho" Justin Martyr (Justin quotes Joshua 5 13) "Where it is said "O God, give thy judgement to the king", since Solomon was a king, you think that the Psalm was spoken in honor of him; whereas the words of Psalm expressly declare that it is spoken in honor of the eternal King, and a Priest, and God, and Lord, and Angel, and Man, and Chief-captain, and a Stone, and a Child bord; and first made capable of suffering, then returning into heaven, and again coming hither with glory, and in possession of the eternal kingdom, as I prove from all the scriptures." Justin Martyr (He then quotes the whole Psalm 72) "I will give you another proof from the scriptures, that in the beginning, before all creatures, God begat a certain reasonable power of himself, which is also called by the Holy Ghost "the Glory of the Lord" and sometimes "Son", sometimes "Wisdom", sometimes "an Angel", sometimes "God", sometimes "Lord" and "Word."" Justin Martyr (He then quotes Proverbs 8 22) "As to the scriptures which we quote to them, (the Jews), which expressly prove that Christ was to suffer and to be worshipped, and that he is God, they are compelled to allow that these were spoken concerning Christ, but they have the presumption to say that this (Jesus) is not the Christ: but they acknowledge that he was to come, and to suffer, and to be a King, and to be worshipped as God." Justin Martyr "Many passages which expressly shewed that this Jesus, who was crucified, was spoke of as God and man, and crucified and dead[Being asked by Trpho to name passages he quotes Jeremiah 11 19 & Psalm 96 10]" Justin Martyr "If you had known who this is, who is called "the Angel of great Counsel", and by Ezekiel a man, and by Daniel the Son of man, and by Isaiah a child, and by many Christ, and God who is to be worshipped, and David, and Christ, and a stone, and by Solomon Wisdom, and Joseph and Judah and a star by Moses, and by Zachariah the East, and by Isaiah subject to suffering, and Jacob, and Israel, and a staff, and a flower, and the head stone of the corner, and the Son of God, - I say, if you had known this you would not have spoken blasphemies against him who is already come, and has been born and suffered, and ascended into heaven; who will also come again, and then your twelve tribes will mourn. For if you had understood what the prophets have said, you would not have denied him to be God, Son of the only unbegotten and ineffable God" -Justin Martyr (Justin then quotes Exodus 62, Genesis 32 24, 32 30, 18 2, 18 13, 18 16, 18 17, Numbers 11 23, Deut 31 2, 31 3, all identifying him with God) "Wherever in the Old Testament God is said to have appeared, or to have conversed with any man, as in Gen 17:22, Gen 6:5, and Gen 7:16, we are not to understand that God the Father, who is invisible, came down to earth, but we are to interpret, all these expression of him who being also God is His Son according to His will, and an Angel, inasmuch as he ministers to His purpose; whom He also willed to become man and be born of a Virgin; who also once became fire in the conversation held with Moses out of the bush. For unless we put this interpretation upon the scriptures, there will be times when the Father and the Lord of the universe was not in heaven, as it is said by Moses, 'The Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven', Gen 19 24 - Now that Christ is Lord, and substantially God the Son of God, and in times past appeared potentially as man, and an angel, and in fiery glory, as he appeared in the bush, and at the judgement of Sodom, has been proved by many arguments." Justin Martyr "When it is said, 'The Lord rained fire from the Lord out of heaven', the sacred text speaks of two in number, one who was on earth, who, he says, came down to see the cry of Sodom; and the other, who was in heaven; who is also Lord of the Lord that was upon the earth, inasmuch as He is Father and God, and the cause of existence to him who is himself mighty and Lord and God." Justin Martyr "We are not talking foolishly, nor do we relate idle tales, when we declare that God was born in the form of man." Tatian "We are not worshippers of senseless stones, but of the only God, who was before all things, and is above all things: and also of his Christ, who was verily God, the Word, before the worlds." Melito of Sardis "Neither the Lord therefore, nor the Holy Ghost, nor the apostles, would ever have given to him who was not God, the name of God definitively and absolutely, unless he were truly God: neither would they have called anyone Lord in his own person, except him who is Lord over all, God the Father, and His Son, who has received from his Father authority over every creature, as the Psalmist says, 110:1 'The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool'. For he represents the father speaking to the Son; who has given him the Gentiles for his inheritance, and subjected all his enemies unto him. Since therefore the Father is truly Lord, and the Son truly Lord, the Holy Ghost has suitably marked them with appellation of Lord. And again, in the overthrowing of Sodom, the scripture says, (Gen 19:24) 'And the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven.' For it signifies in this place, that the Son, who had also been conversing with Abraham, has received power from the Father to judge the people of Sodom on account of their iniquity. That is a similar expression, 'Thy throne, O God, is for ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee.' For the spirit has marked each with the appellation of God, both him who is anointed, I.e. the Son, and Him who anoints, i.e. the Father. And again, 'God standeth in the congregation of the gods; He judgeth among the gods’. This is spoken of the Father and the Son, and of those who received adoption; and these are the church. For this is the congregation of God, which God, i.e. the Son himself, has gathered together by himself. Of whom the Psalmist says in another place(50:1), 'The God of Gods, the Lord hath spoken, and called the earth.' What God? He of whom it is said, 'God shall manifestly come, our God, and shall not keep silence'(Verse 3), i.e. the Son who came manifestly amongst men, who says, 'I have appeared openly unto them who seek me not'. But of what God does the Psalmist speak, to whom he says, 'I have said, Ye are gods and all sons of the Most High? Psalms 83 6 to those who have received the grace of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father’. No other person therefore, as I said before, receives the name of God, or appellation of Lord, except He who is God and Lord of all, (who also said to Moses, ‘I am that I am: and thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you’), and His Son Jesus Christ, our Lord, who makes those who believe in his name to be sons of God: and in another place the Son speaks to Moses, saying 'I am come down to deliver this people': for it is he himself who descended and ascended for the salvation of men. It is by the Son therefore who is in the Father, and has the Father in himself, that he who is truly God has been manifested unto us, the Father bearing testimony to the Son, and the Son announcing the Father." -Irenaeus “They presented gold and frankincense and myrrh, as to a King and God and Man.” Peter of Alexandria “They brought gifts, which, if I may so say, they offered symbolically to one compound of God and a mortal man; gold as to a King; myrrh, as to one who was to die; and incense, as to a god.” Origen “This is the mystery, which he says was made known to him by revelation, that he who suffered under Pontius Pilate, the same is Lord of all, and King, and God, and Judge.” Irenaeus “Not that we ever name with our mouth two Gods, or two Lords, although the Father is God, and the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God, and each is God; - and if the Father and Son are to be mentioned together, for sake of distinction we call the Father God, and Jesus Christ Lord: but yet, speaking of Christ singly, I can call him God, as Paul did, ‘of whom is Christ, who, he says, is God over all, blessed for ever’. Tertullian “Christ was God, and suffered for our sakes, being himself the Father, that he might save us. We can not come to any other conclusion; for the apostle acknowledges one God when he says, ‘Whose are the fathers, of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever’. Noetus “As to the Apostle saying, ‘Whose are the fathers’, he declares the mystery of the truth properly and plainly. He who is over all is God: for he thus says boldly, ‘All things are delivered unto me of the Father’, (Matt 11 27). He that is God over all is blessed; and becoming man is God for ever.” Hippolytus “Christ is God.” Novatian “The substances both of God and man were shown in Christ.” Novatian “He fulfills the rich and vast will of his Father, he himself being the Savior of those who are saved, and the Lord of those who are under his dominion, and the God of the things which are made, and the only-begotten of the Father, and Christ who was foretold, and the Word of God, who became incarnate, when the fulness of time arrived, in which the Son of God was to become the Son of man.” Irenaeus “Having clearly proved that the Word which in the beginning was with God, by whom all things were made, who also was always present with mankind, in these last days, according to the time prefixed by the Father, was united unto his own creation, and became man capable of suffering: it follows, that all contradiction is excluded of those who say, ‘if Christ was born at that time, therefore he did not exist before’. For we have proved, that the Son of God did not then begin to be, having always existed with his father; but when he became incarnate, and was made man, he summed up in himself the whole human race, giving us salvation”. Irenaeus “Jesus therefore, as we have said before, united man with God. For if it had not been a man who conquered the adversary of man, the enemy would not have been rightly conquered. And again, if it had not been God who gave salvation, we should not have had it securely. And if man had not been united to God, he could not have partaken of immortality. For it was necessary that the mediator between God and man, by his own relationship to both, should bring both to friendship and unanimity; that he should present man to God, and make God known to men”. Irenaeus “Above all men that ever lived is called God and Lord and Eternal King, and only-begotten, and the Incarnate Word, both by all the Prophets and Apostles, and by the Holy Spirit Himself. But the scriptures would not have testified this of him, if he had been merely a man, like all other men. But that he had in himself above all men that exalted birth, which is of the most high Father, and that he had also that exalted birth which is of a Virgin, both these points the divine scriptures testify of him: and that he was a man ‘with no form not comeliness, subject to suffering, sitting upon the foal of an ass’; that he had vinegar and gall to drink; that he was despised by the people, and condescended even to death; and that he is the holy Lord, and ‘wonderful counsellor’, and in beautiful appearance, and ‘the mighty God’, coming on the clouds to judge all men—all these things the scriptures prophesied concerning him.” Irenaeus "Again, it was foretold that it was neither to be a mere man who saves us, nor yet without flesh, (Isaiah lxiii. 9.) and that he should begin to be a real, visible man, although he was the Word giving salvation, (ib. xxxiii. 20.) and that he was not merely a man who died for us--and that the Son of God, who is God, was to come from that part which is to the south-west of the inheritance of Judah; and that he who was of Bethlehem, where the Lord was born, should send forth his praise unto all the world, as the prophet Habakkuk says, (ch. iii. 3,4.) manifestly shewing that he was God, and that his advent was in Bethlehem, and from mount Ephrem, which is to the south-west of the inheritance, and that he was man." Irenaeus "God therefore became man, and the Lord himself saved us, giving us the sign of a virgin: By the words now quoted, (Isaiah vii. 10.) the Holy Ghost has accurately signified his birth, which is of a Virgin, and his substance, that he is God: (for the name Emmanuel signifies this:) and he shews that he was a man, by saying, 'butter and honey shall he eat', and by calling him a 'child', and, 'before he knew to choose good and evil', for all these things are tokens of a human child. But that 'he shall not consent to iniquity that he may choose the good', this is peculiar to God; that by his eating butter and honey we might not suppose him to be a mere man, nor yet from the name Emmanuel suspect him to be God without flesh." Irenaeus "He therefore who was worshipped by the Prophets, the living God, He is the God of the living, and His Word, who also spake with Moses, who also refuted Sadducees--Christ therefore with the Father is the God of the living, who spake with Moses, and was revealed to the patriarchs." Irenaeus ***The testimony here born to the divinity of Christ is so much the stronger, because Irenaeus is contending that there is only 'one God' mentioned in the Old Testament: and since he here argues that Christ is the God who is spoke of in the Old Testament, it follows, that he must have believed him to be of one substance with the Father, very and eternal God.*** Edward Burton*** "If therefore the very same God is come, who was foretold by the prophets, out Lord Jesus Christ, and his coming has given us a fuller grace and a greater distribution of gifts to those who received him, it is plain that it is the very same Father who was announced by the prophets; and the Son, when he came, did not spread the knowledge of another Father, but of the same who was spoken of from the beginning." Irenaeus "There is therefore one God, who made and arranged all things by His Word and Wisdom: but this is the Creator, who also gave this world to the human race; who in His exceeding greatness was unknown to all those who were made by Him--But according to His love is known always by him, through whom He ordained all things. But this is His Word, our Lord Jesus Christ, who in these last days was made man among men, the he might join the end to the beginning, i.e. man to God. And therefore the prophets, receiving the gift of prophecy from the same Word, foretold his coming according to the flesh, by whom the conjoining and communion of God and man was made according to the Will of the Father, the Word of God foretelling from the beginning, that God should be seen by men, and should live with them upon the earth, and should converse with them, and be present with His creation, saving it, and capable of being perceived by it, and freeing us from the hands of all who hate us." Irenaeus "Jesus therefore by remitting sins cured men, and manifestly shewed himself who he was: for if no one can remit sins except God alone, but the Lord remitted these and cured men, it is plain that he was the Word of God, being made the Son of man, receiving from the Father the power of the remission of sins, that he was man, and that he was God; that like as he suffered with us as man, he had compassion upon us as God." Irenaeus ***Ignatius, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Origen, Dionysius of Alexandria, Archelaus, Alexander of Alexandria, and Eusebius all referred to Mary as 'the mother of God'.*** "The Word therefore, that is, Christ, is the cause of our original being, for he was in God; and he is also the cause of our well-being; since this same Word, who is alone both God and man, hath appeared to men as the cause of all good things to us: by whom we are instructed in living well, and conducted to eternal life. For, according to the inspired apostle of our Lord, (Tit. ii. 11.) 'The grace of God that bringeth salvation to all men hath appeared, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldy lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the God and our Saviour Jesus Christ'. This is the new song, the appearance, which has now shone forth among us, of the Word who was in the beginning, and preexisted; the Saviour, who was before, hath appeared lately: he hath appeared, who is in Him who is, because he is the Word who was with God: the Teacher hath appeared, by whom all things were made; the Word, who also in the beginning gave life when he formed us, as the Creator, hath taught us to live well, appearing as a Teacher, that he might afterwards give us eternal life, as God". Clemens Alexandrinus "What is left, but the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who is God from heaven?" Hippolytus "Our Instructor is like to God his Father, whose Son he is, without sin, irreprehensible, and without passion in his soul: God in the form of man, undefiled, ministering to his Fathers will, God the Word, who is in the Father, who is on the right hand of the Father and in form also God" Tertullian ***Tertullian argues, that the 'form of a servant' must mean that Christ was really a man, because 'being in the form of God' means that he was really God. He is arguing against the Marcionites, who allowed the divinity of Christ, but denied the reality of his human body*** "The Marcionites think that the apostle supports their opinion about the substance of Christ, that there was merely an appearance of flesh in Christ, when he says, that 'being in the form of God, he thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but exhausted himself, taking the form of a servant', not the reality: and in the likeness of man, not in man: and being found a man in figure, not in substance, i.e. not in flesh: as if figure and likeness and form were not also parts of substance. But it is well that elsewhere (Col. i. 15.) he calls Christ 'the image of the invisible God': and does he here also place him 'as in the form of God'? In the same manner Christ will not really be God if he was not really man, when 'in the form of man'. For reality must be excluded in each place, if the form and likeness and figure are to be ascribed to a mere appearance. But if he was declared to be in the form and image, as being Son of the Father, who is really God, he was also really found to be a man, in the image and form of man, as being the Son of man; for he used the word 'found' intentionally, i.e. most assuredly a man: for that which is found, is proved to be. So also he was found to be God by his power, as by his flesh to be man." Tertullian "The only begotten Word of God, who is God of God divested himself according to the scripture, lowering himself voluntarily to what he was not, and clothed himself with this inglorious flesh" Hippolytus "If Christ were merely a man in the likeness of God, he would not have been spoken of as in the form of God: for we know that man is made after the likeness, not after the form of God-And he was truely said to be in the form of God, since he himself is over all things, and has divine power over every creature, and is God like his Father, that he should be God and Lord of all, and God after the form of God the father, begotten and produced by Him" Novatian "But the form of God is His Word, and Wisdom is acknowledged to be the Son of God, and God himself, being always one person and one substantial person." Dionysius of Alexandria "He that endured the cross thought in not robbery to be equal with God, who is the Word of the Father, and our Lord God, the Lord of hosts, who was lifted up upon the cross." Dionysius of Alexandria

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