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This translation of a major document in patristic Christology, the first translation since the nineteenth century, is based upon the modern critical edition of Theodoret’s Greek text. Theodoret was the leading theologian of his time in the Antiochene tradition, and in the Eranistes (written in 447) he offers a lengthy exposition of his Christology, coupled with a refutation of the so-called...

the suffering to the divine nature are talking nonsense as well as blasphemy. 5. Blessed Paul called Christ the Lord “first-born from the dead.”42 But the first-born surely has the same [262] nature as those of whom he is called first-born. So he is, therefore, firstborn from the dead as a human being, since he first destroyed the anguish of death and gave the sweet hope of new life to all. And he suffered in the same way in which he rose. As a human being, therefore, he suffered, but as awesome
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