If He who comes from the uncircumscribable Father is uncircumsribable, then obviously He who comes from a circumscribed mother is circumscribed - unless we are to understand that the begetting is true but theh birth false. But if both are true of the one Christ, the He has also acquired the properties of both origins, and is uncircumscribable and circumscribed. - St. Theodore the Studite, *On the Holy Icons* Third Refutation, Par. 39
I read Theodore the Studite before I read the Damascene. Now that I've read John, I can't really go back to Theodore.
ReplyDeleteIt's like starting with Polycarp and then reading John. ;-)
If you read more of Polycarp and Ignatius, then your read of John wouldn't be so individualistic. ;)
ReplyDeleteThere's more of Ignatius and Polycarp than:
ReplyDeleteEverything they've written that has endured to the modern world.
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You should know your Walther better than that: not many, but much!
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