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The manhood of Christ as beginning of the fairest ways of righteousness
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Eustathius is opening his argument that Christ's manhood is the starting point of the fairest paths of righteousness, leading believers to better pursuits.
For the manhood of Christ has become for us the beginning of the fairest ways of righteousness, leading us to better pursuits.
Greek De fide contra Arianos (fragmenta) 63 Ἀρχὴ γάρ τοι τῶν καλλίστων τῆς δικαιοσύνης ὁδῶν γεγένηται ἡμῖν ὁ ἄνθρωπος τοῦ Χριστοῦ, τοῖς κρείττοσι τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων προσάγων ἡμᾶς.
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About this text On Faith against the Arians attributed to Eustathius of Antioch.
Eustathius of Antioch (fl. c. 320–337) wrote this treatise in defense of the full divinity of Christ.
The controversy concerned the Arian claim that the Son of God was mutable and convertible, not from the Father's own substance, with a temporal beginning and birth from nothing. Eustathius wrote out of love for the catholic faith and initially gave the work to a friend to read, who then had it transcribed. He asked that it be circulated anonymously at first to learned and prudent men so that it could be emended by the counsel of many if anything seemed excessive or deficient.
The surviving fragment interprets Christ's saying 'I am the way and the truth and the life' from John 14:6. Eustathius argues that the name 'way' signifies the manhood of Christ, his human, bodily, visible covering, since a way is a portion of earth and a perceptible ground. The names 'truth' and 'life' signify the nature of the Father, because truth is an intelligible reality that falls under neither sight nor touch. The key terms to follow are 'way,' 'truth,' 'life,' 'the manhood of Christ,' 'covering,' 'paradise,' and 'pasture.'
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