Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

For what other visible fruit is there of the invisible Spirit, than the rendering of the flesh mature and capable of incorruption? If then [he says], "To live in the flesh, this is the result of labour to me," he did not surely contemn the substance of flesh in that passage where he said, "Put ye off the old man with his works; "[92]

Lactantius Divine Institutes Book II

because He was made from the earth. Finally, Plato says that the human form[154]

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