Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 7:35

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 300, footnote 5 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

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To the Sozopolitans. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3174 (In-Text, Margin)

2. If, then, the sojourn of the Lord in flesh has never taken place, the Redeemer[Acts 7:35] paid not the fine to death on our behalf, nor through Himself destroyed death’s reign. For if what was reigned over by death was not that which was assumed by the Lord, death would not have ceased working his own ends, nor would the sufferings of the God-bearing flesh have been made our gain; He would not have killed sin in the flesh: we who had died in Adam should not have been made alive in Christ; the fallen to pieces would not have been framed again; ...