shall overshadow thee: therefore that which shall be born of thee shall be called holy, the Son of God.”1 FOR it was right that He who was in possession of the perfect image and likeness of God should be Himself tempted through those passions, through which Adam also was tempted while he still retained the image of God unbroken, that is, through gluttony, vainglory, pride; and not through those in which he was
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