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“… this is he who in the virgin was made incarnate, on the cross was suspended, in the earth was buried, from the dead was resurrected, to the heights of heaven was lifted up.”

From a paschal homily c. 165AD: “He came on earth from heaven for suffering man, becoming incarnate in a virgins’s womb from which he came forth as man; he took on himself the suffering of suffering man through a body capable of suffering, and put an end to the suffering of the flesh, and through his spirit incapable of death, he became the death of death, which is destructive of man…”