And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
As Christ was predestined to be the Son of God in power, so we too have been predestined to be sons of God, not however in power but by grace, having been made worthy of such a calling and having received it only by the will of God the Father. There is a big difference here between Emmanuel and us. For even if he was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and so we can say that the Son of God was one of us in his humanity, still, in power and in truth he is the natural Son, and it is through him that we are made sons as well…. We stand in the same relation to him as images do to their original. .
