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The divine-human shared life with humans
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Eustathius continues the quotation from Jeremiah, then presses its claim that this divine figure lived among human beings by asking when that shared life happened.
He found out the whole way of knowledge and gave it to Jacob his child and to Israel whom he loved (Baruch 3:36-38, appended to Jeremiah). After this he appeared on earth and lived among human beings. And when did he live among human beings, if not when he was born together with them from a virgin, shared infancy, grew up together with them, ate and drank with them, and shared all the rest of human life?
Greek Ἐξεῦρε πᾶσαν ὁδὸν ἐπιστήμης καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν Ἰακὼβ τῶι παιδὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ τῶι ἠγαπημένωι ὑπ'
αὐτοῦ. Μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὤφθη καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συνανεστράφη. Πότε δὲ συνανεστράφη ἀνθρώποις, εἰ μὴ ὅτε συνεγεννήθη μετ' αὐτῶν ἐκ παρθένου καὶ συνενηπίασε καὶ συνηυξήθη καὶ συνέφαγε καὶ συνέπιε καὶ τὰ ἄλλα;
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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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