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genealogy from below to above and having reached the point of emphasizing the advent from above of God the Word, connected at the same time to his incarnate economy, in order to turn away the error from the deluded, they did not understand. Therefore, the Holy Spirit later compels John, who was declining to preach the gospel out of piety and humility, in his old age, after ninety years of his life, after his return from Patmos which occurred under Claudius Caesar, and after 2.264 he had spent a considerable number of years in Asia, he is compelled to set forth the gospel. And he had no need to speak in detail about the incarnate advent; for it had already been securely established. But as if walking behind some and seeing them ahead, having given themselves over to very rough, erroneous, and thorny paths, he intended to call them back to a straight road and, making them secure, to proclaim to them and to say: Why do you wander? Where are you turning? Where are you wandering, Cerinthus and Ebion and the others? It is not as you think. Yes, Christ was born according to the flesh, clearly; for behold, I myself confess that the Word became flesh. But do not think that he exists only from when he became flesh; for he is not only from the time of Mary, as each of us exists from when he is born, but before being born does not exist. But the holy God the Word, the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, is not only from the time of Mary, nor only from the time of Joseph, nor of Eli, nor of Levi, nor of Zerubbabel, nor of Sala2.265thiel, nor of Nathan, nor of David, nor from Jacob, nor from Isaac, nor from the time of Abraham, nor of Noah, nor of Adam, nor from the fifth day, nor from the fourth day, nor from the third, nor from the second, nor from when heaven and earth came to be, nor from when the world was, but “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made” and what follows. “and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we saw him.” Then “there was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all might believe through him. He was not that Light, but was to bear witness of the Light. The true Light was, which enlightens every man coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God; who were born not of blood and of flesh, but of God. And the Word, he says, became flesh, and dwelt among us. John bears witness and cries out, saying: This was he of whom I spoke to you”; and that “from his fullness we have all received.” And he says “I am not the Christ, but the voice of one crying in the wilderness.” 13. And when he had related all these things, he says “these things took place in Bethabara”; but in other copies “in Bethany beyond the Jordan.” And after these things he shows that the disciples of John said to him: “Rabbi, where are you staying? He said: Come and see. And they went, and stayed with him that day.” And the next day, “it was about the tenth hour, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who had followed him; he first finds his own brother Simon and says to him, We have found the Messiah, 2.266 which is interpreted Christ. He brought him to Jesus. When Jesus looked at him, he said: you are Simon the son of Jona, you shall be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter. The next day he wished to go forth into Galilee and finds Philip, and Jesus says to him, Follow me. Now Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, Him of whom

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