Melito, the Philosopher.

 Melito, the Philosopher.

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 This is He who took a bodily form in the Virgin, and was hanged upon the tree, and was buried within the earth, and suffered not dissolution He who r

 He that bore up the earth was borne up on a tree. The Lord was subjected to ignominy with naked body—God put to death, the King of Israel slain!

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 Head of the Lord — His simple Divinity because He is the Beginning and Creator of all things: in Daniel.

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From the Same Apology.81 In the Chronicon Alexandrinum.

We are not those who pay homage to stones, that are without sensation; but of the only God, who is before all and over all, and, moreover, we are worshippers of His Christ, who is veritably God the Word82 ῎Οντως Θεοῦ Λόγου.existing before all time.