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Epistles on the Arian Heresy

Alexander of Alexandria

Section 5

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Author: Alexander of Alexandria

5. But now, after all this bondage to

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death

and

corruption

of

the

manhood

,

God

hath

visited

His

creature

,

which

He

formed

after

His

own

image

and

similitude

;

and

this

He

hath

done

that

it

might

not

for

ever

be

the

sport

of

death

.

Therefore

God

sent

down

from

heaven

His

incorporeal

Son

to

take

flesh

upon

Him

in

the

Virgin’s

womb

;

and

thus

,

equally

as

thou

,

was

He

made

man

;

to

save

lost

man

,

and

collect

all

His

scattered

members

.

For

Christ

,

when

He

joined

the

manhood

to

His

person

,

united

that

which

death

by

the

separation

of

the

body

had

dispersed

.

Christ

suffered

that

we

should

live

for

ever

.