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“The Word, then, was God, and He became also Man; and since He was born
according to the flesh for the sake of mankind, it is necessary that she who bore
Him is the Mother of God. For if she did not bear God, neither is He that was
born of her to be called God. If the divinely inspired Scriptures name Him God, as
God having been made man and incarnate, He could not become Man in any other
way than through birth from a woman: how then should she who bore Him not be
the Mother of God?”
Against the Anthropomorphites (Post 441 AD):
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“The Divine Scripture says that the judgment is to take place after the resurrection
of the dead. But the resurrection is not to take place until Christ returns to us from
heaven in the glory of the Father with the holy angels...Since, therefore, Christ the
Savior of all has not yet come down from heaven, neither has the resurrection
taken place, nor has compensatory action been visited upon any...so that those who
possess the wealth of this world might know that if they do not wish to be liberal
and generous and social, and choose to come to assist the needs of the poor, they
will be overtaken by a terrible and inevitable punishment.”
Against those who do not wish to confess that the Holy Virgin is the Mother of
God (Date Unknown):
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“Jesus did not first come into being as a simple man, before the union and
communion of God in Him; but the Word Himself, coming into the Blessed Virgin
herself, assumed for Himself His own temple from the substance of the Virgin, and
came forth from her a man in all that could be externally discerned, while
interiorly He was true God. Therefore He kept His Mother a virgin even after her
child-bearing, which was done for none of the other saints.”
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