# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1859_S87
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J. Ch. Koecher's Proof that the Evangelical Lutheran Religion, etc.	87

Origen 1): "Meanwhile we wish to say once more to our slanderers, that he whom we hold to be not only God and the Son of God, but also accept with a true conviction to be the Word, the Wisdom, the Truth itself; and that his mortal body, and the human soul which dwells in it, have attained to the highest dignity, not merely through some fellowship with him, but in that they have been most exactly united and intermingled with him, and have become so far partakers of the Godhead that they are transformed into God himself. How can anyone wonder at this, that the properties of Christ's mortal body have, according to the will of God and through his governance, been transformed into divine and heavenly ones?" Origen has, without question, thought better than he wrote, and by the awkward expression of a mingling and transformation meant nothing other than that divine attributes, majesty, and glory were imparted to the human nature of Jesus Christ;

in the fourth century, Athanasius 2): "Just as he died and was exalted as a man; so it is said of him, as of a man, that he received that which as God he always had, so that on us also a like imparted grace might come. For the Word was not humbled by taking on flesh, so that it needed to seek and receive grace; rather it has made divine that which was taken from it, and richly endowed the human race with grace. For just as the same one, insofar as he is the Word and is in divine form, has always been worshiped; so no less, after he became man and was called Jesus, are all creatures made subject to him, and bow their knee to him in this name" 3): "Christ, who by his very essence is an eternal Lord and King, does not become a greater Lord through his mission, nor does he only then begin to be a Lord and King; rather, what he always is, he also then became according to the flesh, and by redeeming all, likewise became in this way a Lord of the living and the dead;"

Basil 4): "The Apostle says: God has made this Jesus both Lord and Christ; by which word he points and refers solely to that which is human and visible in him. Therefore he who says that God made him a Lord and Christ confesses that dominion and government over all things has been given over to him by the Father;"

Ambrose 5): "Christ is the head of the Church, in which the com-

1) contra Celsum Lib. III. p. 135. 136. edit. Spenceri Oper. Tom. I. p. 474.

2) Orat. I. contra Arianos Tom. I. Opp. p. 446.

3) Orat. II. contra Arianos Tom. I. Opp. p. 482.

4) adversus Eunomium Lib. II. Opp. Tom. I. p. 728.

5) Lib. V. de fide cap. 6. p. 108. 109. Tom. II. Opp. [He is the head of the church, in whom the common nature according to the flesh has earned the prerogative of the heavenly seat. — You have learned, then, that he can subject all things to himself, according to the operation certainly of the]