Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Cyril of Alexandria on the incarnation

They are utterly stupid who represent, I know not how, that Christ was able to err, because of His having been made incarnationally into a form like us. . . . And if he wore the nature of man for this very reason, that just as that nature in Adam was weakened, in Himself it might prove most powerful and superior to sin, why do they waste their time vainly seeking what they cannot possibly find? . . . Just as in Adam we were condemned because of his disobedience and his transgression of the command, so too in Christ we have been justified because of His utter sinlessness and His perfect obedience and blamelessness; and it is in Him that human nature has its boast.—Cyril of Alexandria in William A. Jurgens, Faith of the Early Fathers, 3:236

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