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Athanasius of Alexandria — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:39-41

Patristic A.D. 373

Athanasius of Alexandria · c. A.D. 296–373

“(lib. de Incarn. Christi cont. Apollin.) But if as some say the flesh was changed into a Divine nature, how did it derive growth? for to attribute growth to an uncreated substance is impious.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 2:39-41 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗

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