40, 17
“Do you have an infant child? Allow sin no opportunity; rather, let the infant be
sanctified from childhood. From the most tender age let him be consecrated by the
Spirit. Do you fear the seal because of the weakness of nature? O what a
pusillanimous mother, and of how little faith!…Give your child the Trinity, that
great and noble protector.”
40, 23
“If you are able to judge a man who intends to commit murder solely by his
intention and without there having been any act of murder, then you can likewise
reckon as baptized one who desired Baptism without having received Baptism.”
Letter to Cledonius the Priest, Against Apollinaris (382 AD):
101
“If anyone does not agree that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is at odds with
the Godhead. If anyone asserts that Christ passed through the Virgin as through a
channel, and was not shaped in her both divinely and humanly, divinely because
without man and humanly because in accord with the law of gestation, he is
likewise godless…
…But He is not two Persons! Far be it! Both are one by their conjunction, the
divine made man and the human deified…
…If anyone has hoped in Christ as a Man lacking a mind, he is truly mindless and
is quite unworthy of being saved.”
Letter to Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium (C. 383 AD):
171
“Cease not to pray and plead for me when you draw down the Word by your word,
when in an unbloody cutting you cut the Body and Blood of the Lord, using your
voice for a sword.”
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