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Cyprian on Theosis

Cyprian

Cyprian

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“

What man is, Christ was willing to be – so that man may also be what Christ is.

Dwell in expectation of receiving what the Father has granted to the Son.

”
On the Vanity of Idols, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, page 465, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994

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