Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks 1, 7, 1 (ante 200
AD)
“This Word, then, the Christ, the cause of both our being at first (for He
was in God) and of our well-being, this very Word has now appeared as
man, He alone being both, both God and man—the Author of all blessings
to us; by whom we, being taught to live well, are sent on our way to life
eternal. For, according to that inspired apostle of the Lord, the grace of God
which brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and
godly, in this present world; looking for the blessed hope, and appearing of
the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.”
St. Athanasius, Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of
Nicaea 20 (c. 350-351 AD)
“The generation of the Son from the Father is otherwise than that which
accords with the nature of men; and He is not only like, but is in fact
inseparable from the substance of the Father. He and the Father are indeed
one, as He did say Himself; and the Word is ever in the Father and the
Father in the Word, as is the way of radiance in relation to light. The term
itself indicates this; and the Council, so understanding the matter, did well,
therefore, when it wrote homoousios [consubstantial], so that it might
defeat the perverseness of the heretics, while proclaiming that the Word is
other than created things.”
Catechism of the Council of Trent (1566)
Pt. I, Ch. III: “Our Lord” ... this name applies to both natures, rightly is
He to be called our Lord. For as He, as well as the Father, is the eternal
God, so is He Lord of all things equally with the Father; and as He and the
Father are not the one, one God, and the other, another God, but one and
the same God, so likewise He and the Father are not the one, one Lord, and
the other, another Lord.
Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992)
No. 461:
Taking up St. John’s expression, “The Word became
flesh,” the Church calls “Incarnation” the fact that the Son of God assumed
a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it. In a hymn cited
by St. Paul, the Church sings the mystery of the Incarnation:
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