Oration on the Titles of the Songs of Ascents · §3 · Eustathius of Antioch

The Word does not receive acquired glory; the man of Christ does

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Eustathius continues his argument about who receives acquired glory, now turning from the Father to the Word and then to the man of Christ.

Nor does the Word receive it, for he is God begotten from the Father, through whom angels and heavens and the boundless magnitudes of earth and all the materials and compositions of created things together have come to be. Rather, it is the man of Christ who, being raised from the dead, is exalted and glorified, while his enemies

Greek

Ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ὁ Λόγος

αὐτοῦ, Θεὸς ὢν ὁ γεννηθεὶς ἐξ αὐτοῦ, δι' οὗ γεγόνασιν ἄγγελοι καὶ οὐρανοὶ καὶ γῆς ἄπειρα μεγέθη καὶ πᾶσαι συλλήβδην τῶν γενητῶν ὕλαι τε καὶ συστάσεις· ἀλλ' ὁ ἄνθρωπος τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγειρόμενος, ὑψοῦται καὶ δοξάζεται, τῶν

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