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Fragment number Vinzent 29
Klostermann 11
Rettb. 10
Ancient source used Eusebius, Against Marcellus
Modern edition M. Vinzent, Markell von Ankyra: Die Fragmente (Leiden, 1997).

Therefore, since this is the case, it follows to consider the principle spoken proverbially here, “The Lord created me as the beginning of his ways for his work” (Proverbs 8:22). For God, our master, truly created when he fashioned what did not exist.  For “He created as the beginning of his ways” (Proverbs 8:22) not the flesh which existed, which the Logos assumed, but the nonexistent [flesh].

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