Athanasian Creed (Harley) n. 195

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195. When it is said that God the Father assumed the Human, it is perceived by the man of the Church as a thing too exalted to be contemplated and greater than could be brought about. Yet it is according to the faith concerning the Divine of the Lord that His Divine is altogether equal to the Divine of the Father, and no one greatest or least, first or last, and that as one is Eternal, Uncreate, Omnipotent, God and Lord, so is the other. Thus there is similarity, neither one being pre-eminent over the other. Wherefore to think otherwise is only from the idea of man who is of such a character.


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