Melito, the Philosopher.

 Melito, the Philosopher.

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 This is He who took a bodily form in the Virgin, and was hanged upon the tree, and was buried within the earth, and suffered not dissolution He who r

 He that bore up the earth was borne up on a tree. The Lord was subjected to ignominy with naked body—God put to death, the King of Israel slain!

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 Head of the Lord — His simple Divinity because He is the Beginning and Creator of all things: in Daniel.

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From the Discourse on the Cross.53 By the same.

On these accounts He came to us; on these accounts, though He was incorporeal, He formed for Himself a body after our fashion,54 Or “wove—a body from our material.”—appearing as a sheep, yet still remaining the Shepherd; being esteemed a servant, yet not renouncing the Sonship; being carried in the womb of Mary, yet arrayed in the nature of His Father; treading upon the earth, yet filling heaven; appearing as an infant, yet not discarding the eternity of His nature; being invested with a body, yet not circumscribing the unmixed simplicity of His Godhead; being esteemed poor, yet not divested of His riches; needing sustenance inasmuch as He was man, yet not ceasing to feed the entire world inasmuch as He is God; putting on the likeness of a servant, yet not impairing55 Lit. “changing.” the likeness of His Father. He sustained every character56 Lit. “He was everything.”belonging to Him in an immutable nature: He was standing before Pilate, and at the same time was sitting with His Father; He was nailed upon the tree, and yet was the Lord of all things.