I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
But let us also look at the subject in hand,-namely, the question, brethren, that in reality the Father's power, which is the Word, came down from heaven, and not the Father Himself. For thus He speaks: "I came forth from the Father, and am come."