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Fragment number Vinzent 8
Klostermann 49
Rettb. 44
Ancient source used Eusebius, Against Marcellus 2.3
Modern edition M. Vinzent, Markell von Ankyra: Die Fragmente (Leiden, 1997).

Therefore, it is reasonable that before his descent he was the Word, which we have asserted many times, but after his descent and assumption of the flesh he received new and different titles because “the Word became flesh” (Jn 1:14).

Translated by Daniel Noonan under the supervision of Prof. Glen L. Thompson, revised AMJ

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