Athanasius of Alexandria, on Luke 1:34

“And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man?”

“(Ep. ad Epictetum.) For we confess that which then was taken up from Mary to be of the nature of man and a most real body, the very same also according to nature with our own body. For Mary is our sister, seeing we have all descended from Adam.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.