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Silvanus on Theosis

Silvanus

Silvanus

theosis
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He [Christ] who has exalted man became like God, not in order that he might bring God down to man, but that man might become like God.

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The Nag Hammadi Library in English, page 385, James M. Robinson, ed., San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988

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