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On Numbers. By the
Holy Bishop and Martyr Hippolytus, from Balaam’s
Blessings.1196
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In Leontius Byzant., book i. Against Nestorius and
Eutyches (from Galland). The same fragment is found in Mai,
Script. vet., vii. p. 134. [Galiand was a French
Orientalist, a.d. 1646–1715.] |
Now, in order that He might be shown to have
together in Himself at once the nature of God and that of man,—as
the apostle, too, says: “Mediator between God and men, the
man Christ Jesus.1197
Now a
mediator is not of one man,1198
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This word “man” agrees ill, not only with the text in
Galatians, but even with the meaning of the writer here; for he is
treating, not of a mediator between “two” men, but between
“God and men.”—Migne. | but two,”1199
—it was therefore necessary that
Christ, in becoming the Mediator between God and men, should receive
from both an earnest of some kind, that He might appear as the Mediator
between two distinct persons.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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