Hippolytus on Theosis

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You will be a companion of God, and a co-heir with Christ . . . For you have become divine . . . God has promised to bestow these upon you, for you have been deified and begotten unto immortality.

The Refutation of All Heresies, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, pages Book 10, Chapter 30, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994

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