“There was no other way to shake off the gloomy dominion of death, only by the incarnation of the Only Begotten.
This was why He appeared as we are.”
–Cyril of Alexandria, On the Unity of Christ, ed. John Behr, trans. John Anthony McGuckin, vol. 13, Popular Patristics Series (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1995), 13: 125.
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