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Epiphanius of Cyprus was lead bishop of the island from 367 until his death in 403, and he was a contemporary of several of the great church fathers of the patristic era, including Athanasius, Basil, and Jerome. He is well known among modern scholars for his monumental heresiology, the Panarion, as well as for his involvement in several ecclesiastical and theological controversies. Before he...

he was wishing, he was allowing it. But he was allowing it in the bodily uses that were rational and befitting to his divinity.144 With the assumption of human flesh, Christ grew in age and wisdom, hungered, thirsted, wept, grew weary, and of course suffered, but he was also able to resist temptation and not succumb to sin.145 With respect to the mind, Epiphanius then drew what he thought was a logical conclusion: For truly possessing the mind, just as he truly was possessing the entire Incarnation,
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