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accuser there we may have also an Advocate, the Lord commending to the Holy Spirit His own man, who had fallen
among thieves, whom He Himself compassionated, and bound up his wounds, giving two royal denaria; so that we,
receiving by the Spirit the image and superscription of the Father and the Son.
A.H. 3.17.4. The Spirit, therefore, descending under the predestined dispensation, and the Son of God, the Only-begotten,
who is also the Word of the Father, coming in the fulness of time . . . .
A.H. 3.18.1. As it has been clearly demonstrated that the Word, who existed in the beginning with God, by whom all things
were made, who was also always present with mankind, was in these last days, according to the time appointed by the
Father, united to His own workmanship . . . . For I have shown that the Son of God did not then begin to exist, being
with the Father from the beginning.
A.H. 3.18.2. . . . the Son effected both these things, being the Word of God, descending from the Father, becoming incarnate.
. . . Son of God . . .
A.H. 3.18.3. . . . Son of God . . . For in the name of Christ is implied, He that anoints, He that is anointed, and the unction
itself with which He is anointed. And it is the Father who anoints, but the Son who is anointed by the Spirit, who is the
unction, as the Word declares by Isaiah, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me,"--pointing
out both the anointing Father, the anointed Son, and the unction, which is the Spirit.
A.H. 3.18.4. . . . Son of the Living God . . . . because the Father had revealed the Son of the living God,
A.H. 3.18.5. . . . Word of God . . .
A.H. 3.18.6. . . . But as our Lord is alone truly Master, so the Son of God is truly good and patient, the Word of God the
Father having been made the Son of man.
A.H. 3.18.7. For it was incumbent upon the Mediator between God and men, by His relationship to both, to bring both to
friendship and concord, and present man to God, while He revealed God to man. For, in what way could we be partaken
of the adoption of sons, unless we had received from Him through the Son that fellowship which refers to Himself,
unless His Word, having been made flesh, had entered into communion with us? . . . Word of God . . .
A.H. 3.19.1. . . . Word of God the Father . . . receiving liberty through the Son . . . . Word of God . . . . Word of God . . .
Word of God . . . Son of God . . .
A.H. 3.19.2. But he to whom the Father which is in heaven has revealed Him, knows Him . . . . this is Christ, the Son of the
living God. . . . For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and
absolutely, called God, or named Lord. But that He is Himself in His own right, beyond all men who ever lived, God,
and Lord, and King Eternal, and the Incarnate Word, proclaimed by all the prophets, the apostles, and by the Spirit
Himself, may be seen by all who have attained to even a small portion of the truth . . . . But that He had, beyond all
others, in Himself that pre-eminent birth which is from the Most High Father . . . . He is the holy Lord, the Wonderful,
the Counsellor, the Beautiful in appearance, and the Mighty God . . .
A.H. 3.19.3. He therefore, the Son of God, our Lord, being the Word of the Father . . . . and ascend to the height above,
offering and commending to His Father that human nature which had been found . . .
A.H. 3.20.1. arranging and preparing the plan of salvation, which was accomplished by the Word
A.H. 3.20.2. . . . Son of God . . . . His Father's law . . . . the Word of God who dwelt in man, and became the Son of man, that
He might accustom man to receive God, and God to dwell in man, according to the good pleasure of the Father.
A.H. 3.20.4. And that it is from that region which is towards the south of the inheritance of Judah that the Son of God shall
come, who is God, and who was from Bethlehem. . . . Thus he indicates in clear terms that He is God, and that His
advent was [to take place] in Bethlehem.
A.H. 3.21.1. God, then was made man . . .
A.H. 3.21.3. . . . His Son . . . Son of God . . .
A.H. 3.21.4. . . . Spirit of God . . . Carefully, then, has the Holy Ghost pointed out, by what has been said, His birth from a
virgin, and His essence, that He is God (for the name Emmanuel indicates this).
A.H. 3.21.7. For this is what "without hands" means, that His coming into this world was not by the operation of human
hands, that is, of those men who are accustomed to stone-cutting; that is, Joseph taking no part with regard to it, but
Mary alone co-operating with the pre-arranged plan. For this stone from the earth derives existence from both the power
and the wisdom of God. Wherefore also Isaiah says: "Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I deposit in the foundations of Zion a
stone, precious, elect, the chief, the corner-one, to be had in honour." So, then, we understand that His advent in human
nature was not by the will of a man, but by the will of God.
A.H. 3.21.8. . . . Son of the living God . . .
A.H. 3.21.10. And as the protoplast himself Adam, had his substance from untilled and as yet virgin soil . . . and was formed
by the hand of God, that is, by the Word of God, for "all things were made by Him."
A.H. 3.22.1. . . . Word of God . . .
A.H. 3.22.3. Hence also was Adam himself termed by Paul "the figure of Him that was to come," because the Word, the
Maker of all things, had formed beforehand for Himself the future dispensation of the human race, connected with the
Son of God; God having predestined that the first man should be of an animal nature, with this view, that he might be
saved by the spiritual One.
A.H. 3.23.1. . . . and by means of the second man did He bind the strong man.
A.H. 3.24.1. . . . Spirit of God . . . For this gift of God has been entrusted to the Church, as breath was to the first created
man,3783 for this purpose, that all the members receiving it may be vivified; and the [means of] communion with Christ