“For your sakes the Word was made flesh.
For your sakes He who was the Son of God was made the Son of man: that you who were the sons of men, might be made sons of God.
What was He, what was He made? What were you, what were you made?
He was the Son of God. What was He made? The Son of man.
You were the sons of men. What were you made? The sons of God.
Christ was born of the Holy Ghost, and the Virgin Mary.
He came to us, but from Himself departed not far. Yea from Himself as God He departed never, but added what He was to our nature.
For He came to that which He was not, He did not lose what He was.
He was made the Son of man, but He did not cease to be the Son of God.”
-Augustine of Hippo, “Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament,” in Saint Augustin: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. R. G. MacMullen, vol. 6, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1888), 6: 470
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