And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
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Gregory of Nyssa
AD 394
Taking up the enmity that had come between us and God on account of sins, “slaying it in himself,” as the apostle says (and sin is enmity), and becoming what we are, he joined the human to God again through himself. .