Even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
They “who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word” did not hand on to us that he was one Son and another, as I said, but one and the same, God and man at the same time, the onlybegotten and the firstborn. This came about in order that he might have the first title as God and the second as man, when he “was born among many brothers,” having assumed our likeness. [He had not] joined another man to himself—as it seemed good to some persons to think—but [he] really and truly [became] man and [did] not relinquish being what he was, being God by nature and impassible. For this reason he voluntarily suffered in his own flesh. He has not given the body of someone else for us. Rather, the onlybegotten Word of God himself offered himself, after he became man, as an immaculate victim to God the Father.
