“Keep then, I pray thee, this deposit undisturbed, and let none remove thee: believe that…”

Keep then, I pray thee, this deposit undisturbed, and let none remove thee: believe that God became Man

Cyril of Jerusalem · The Catechetical Lectures · NPNF2 VII, Catechetical Lectures, Lecture XII, 16

The lecture on the clause "Incarnate, and Made Man", arguing it to catechumens who would have heard the Jewish objection in the street: Abraham entertained the Lord, Jacob saw God face to face, and the strange thing is not as strange as it sounds.

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These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.

Read in Gifford, NPNF series 2 vol. 7 (1893) · Edwin Hamilton Gifford

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