Origen on Theosis
Origen
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Thou shalt resemble Him . . . having made thee even God to his glory.
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Against Celsus, The Ante-Nicene Fathers, page X.30, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994
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Men should escape from being men, and hasten to become gods.
. . . from Him there began the union of the divine with the human nature. This was so that the human – by communion with the divine – might rise to be divine. This not only happened in Jesus, but also in all those who not only believe, but enter upon the life that Jesus taught.