The Apostolic Fathers

Epistles of Ignatius

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Book III · Chapter 7: Continuation: Satan's Inconsistency

And how, again, does Christ not at all appear to you to be of the Virgin but to be God over all and the Almighty? Then tell me, who sent Him? Who was Lord over Him? And whose will did He obey? And what laws did He fulfill, since He was subject to neither the will nor power of anyone? And while you deny that Christ was born, you claim that the unbegotten was begotten, and that He who had no beginning was nailed to the cross, by whose permission I can't say. But your changeable tactics don't escape me, nor am I unaware that you often walk with slanting and uncertain steps. And you are unaware of who really was born, you who pretend to know everything.