Leo the Great

Steven Avery

Administrator
Romans 9:5
Leo the Great

For in no way is He outside our true bodily nature, of Whom the Evangelist in beginning his story says, “the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham,” with which the blessed Apostle Paul’s teaching agrees, when he says “whose are the fathers and of whom is Christ according to the flesh, Who is above all God blessed for ever ” and so to Timothy “remember,” he says, “that Jesus Christ has risen from the dead, of the seed of David.
 

Steven Avery

Administrator
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3604124.htm

IX. An exhortation to accept the Catholic view of the Incarnation.

Give up, my sons, give up these suggestions of the devil. God's Truth nothing can impair, but the Truth does not save us except in our flesh. For, as the prophet says, truth is sprung out of the earth , and the Virgin Mary conceived the Word in such wise that she ministered flesh of her substance to be united to Him without the addition of a second person, and without the disappearance of her nature: seeing that He who was in the form of God took the form of a slave in such wise that Christ is one and the same in both forms: God bending Himself to the weak things of man, and man rising up to the high things of the Godhead, as the Apostle says, whose are the fathers, and from whom, according to the flesh is Christ, who is above all things God blessed forever. Amen
 
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