# “This is our salvation” by Hilary of Poitiers (A.D. 315-368)

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- Published: 2021-04-03T12:00:42-05:00
- Author: tollelege

_“Virgo, partus, et corpus; postque crux, mors, inferi, salus nostra est._

The Virgin, birth, and body, then the cross, death, and lower world; this is our
salvation.”

–Hilary of Poitiers, [_On the Trinity 2.24_](https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf209/npnf209.ii.v.ii.ii.html)(
trans. E.W. Watson and L. Pullman, [_NPNF_ 2/9:59](https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf209/npnf209.ii.v.ii.ii.html)).
As cited in Samuel D. Renihan, [_Crux, Mors, Inferi: A Primer and Reader on the Descent of Christ_](https://amzn.to/3uncQe7)(
Independently Published: Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, 2021), 18.

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