Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal with God:
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Athanasius the Apostolic
AD 373
What clearer and more decisive proof could there be than this? He did not become better from assuming a lower state but rather, “being God, he took the form of a slave.” … If [as the Arians think] it was for the sake of this exaltation that the Word came down and that this is written, what need would there be for him to humble himself completely in order to seek what he already had? Against the Arians
