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Works Alexander of Alexandria (250-328) Epistula ad Alexandrum Thessalonicensem? To Alexander, Bishop of the City of Constantinople

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We, therefore, say these wicked men, can also be the sons of God even as He. For it is written, "I have nourished and brought up children." 1 But when what follows was objected to them, "and they have rebelled against me," which indeed is not applicable to the nature of the Saviour, who is of an immutable nature; they, throwing off all religious reverence, say that God, since He foreknew and had foreseen that His Son would not rebel against Him, chose Him from all. For He did not choose Him as having by nature anything specially beyond His other sons, for no one is by nature a son of God, as they say; neither as having any peculiar property of His own; but God chose Him who was of a mutable nature, on account of the carefulness of His manners and His practice, which in no way turned to that which is evil; so that, if Paul and Peter had striven for this, there would have been no difference between their sonship and His. And to confirm this insane doctrine, playing with Holy Scripture, they bring forward what is said in the Psalms respecting Christ: "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows." 2


  1. Isa. i. 2. ↩

  2. Ps. xlv. 7. ↩

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To Alexander, Bishop of the City of Constantinople
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Notes and Elucidations to Alexander of Alexandria

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