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Not only human but also God
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Eustathius opens a fragment by stating the claim he will defend: the one who appeared on earth is not only human but also God, as Jeremiah the prophet says.
The one who appeared on earth and lived among human beings is not only a human being but also God, just as Jeremiah the prophet also says: “This is our God; no other will be reckoned beside him” (Jeremiah).
Greek Fragmenta varia 88 Τὸ μὴ μόνον ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ καὶ Θεόν, καθὼς καὶ Ἱερεμίας ὁ προφήτης λέγει· οὗτος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, οὐ λογισθήσεται ἕτερος πρὸς αὐτόν.
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About this text Various Fragments attributed to Eustathius of Antioch.
Eustathius of Antioch (fl. c. 320–337) was a native of Side in Pamphylia who became bishop of Beroea and then patriarch of Antioch shortly before the Council of Nicaea. He was a zealous opponent of the Arians at that council and helped shape the Nicene Creed. Most of his many dogmatic and exegetical treatises have been lost, and what remains survives only as fragments.
The fragments translated here preserve arguments on the incarnation and on the care of the catholic Church, likely from anti-Arian or pastoral contexts. They are known through editions by Fabricius, Galland, Harles, Migne, Pitra, Martin, and others, with a modern critical edition by J.H. Declerck.
A reader will meet the prophet Jeremiah, whose words Eustathius quotes to argue that the one who appeared on earth and lived among human beings is not only human but also God. Eustathius insists that this figure was born from a virgin and shared infancy, growth, food, and drink. He also argues that if prayers must be made for the catholic Church throughout the whole world, then providence must care for the whole Church with concern for all its parts. The translation uses the name Jeremiah for the prophet and the term catholic Church for the Church spread throughout the world.
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