# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1859_S86
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86	J. Ch. Koecher's Proof that the Evangelical Lutheran Religion, etc.

-ion by all manner of arguments, still no one should charge us with the folly of holding that the flesh of Christ, as though sinful, had to be done away with; since we know that it sits at the right hand of the Father in heaven, and confess that it will one day come from there on the throne of the Father's glory": 1) "Now the angel clearly declares the order and manner of so great a mystery, when he says: that Holy One who is born of you shall be called the Son of God — which he thereby proves, because the Son of God has come down. Since, then, this Son of Man has been taken up into his [the Son of God's] own subsistence, he has accordingly made the same one the Son of God; because the Son of God has joined and united himself with him. In this way the Son of Man, inasmuch as by birth he is joined to the Son of God, has through this union gained and received that which by his own nature he could not possess. And so, according to the word of the angel — which the heretics deny — a distinction has arisen between the Son of God and the Son of Man, yet with the preservation of their union; and this compels them to regard Christ, the Son of Man, the man, also as the Son of God, and to hold the man to be the Son of God, that is, to be the Word, to be God; and thus, by virtue of the truth of Scripture, which testifies to this very thing, they must acknowledge that Christ Jesus the Lord, composed and arisen out of both — if I may put it so — is, in the fellowship and mutual union of the two substances, God and man united;"

in the third century, Cyprian 2): "Jesus Christ, covered by a cloud, ascended into heaven, that he might present to the Father, as a conqueror, the man whom he had assumed, whom he had rescued from the power of death; and he will soon come again from heaven to punish the devil and to judge the human race, with the power and authority of a judge;"

1) in libro de Trinitate pag. 635. Opp. [Now setting forth point by point the order and reason of so great a sacrament, he clearly expressed it, so as to say, and that which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God: proving that the Son of God has come down. Since the Son of God, in taking to himself the son of man, consequently made him the Son of God, because the Son of God joined and united him to himself. So that, while the son of man clings to the birth of the Son of God, he might hold, by that very intermingling, what was lent and borrowed, which by his own nature he could not possess. And thus, by the voice of the angel — which the heretics do not want — a distinction has come about between the Son of God and the son of man, yet with their association preserved; pressing upon them that they should understand Christ, the son of man, the man, also as the Son of God, and should accept the man, the Son of God, that is, the Word (as it is written), as God: and therefore they should acknowledge that Christ Jesus the Lord, joined from both — if I may so express it — woven and compacted from both, and, in the harmony of both substances into one, bound together by the mutual bond of a shared covenant, man and God, by the truth of Scripture which itself declares this.]

2) de Idolorum vanitate in fine: [Then, wrapped in a surrounding cloud, he was taken up into heaven; that as a victor he might present to the Father the man whom he loved, whom he had put on, whom he had protected from death, being now about to come from heaven to punish the devil and to judge the human race, with the force of an avenger and the power of a judge.]