CHRIST AS AN ANGEL BEFORE NICEA
Lactantius
- referring to the last post puts it more succinctly when referring
to Christ:
LATIN
TEXT: "...Denique ex omnibus angelis,
quos idem Deus de suis spiritibus figuravit,
solus in consortium summae potestatis adscitus est, solus Deus
nuncupatus..." - (Latin Text of the Epitome of the Divinae
Institutiones Chapter 42, MGL.)
LACTANTIUS
(circa. 240-320 C.E.): "...in
fine, (
OF ) ALL THE ANGELS, WHOM THE SAME GOD - ( FORMED ) - FROM HIS OWN BREATH, (
HE ) ALONE
was admitted into a participation of his supreme power, he was called
God. For all things were through him, and nothing was without him...”
-
(Chapter 42, "EPITOME" of "The Divine Institutes"
- Translated
by William Fletcher. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by
Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo,
NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Revised and edited
for New Advent by Kevin Knight.)
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0702.htm
