Hear you the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
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Athanasius the Apostolic
AD 373
The prophets say, “And the Word of the Lord came to me.” … All these messages proscribe in every light the Arian heresy and signify the eternity of the Word, and that he is not foreign but proper to the Father’s essence. - "Discourses Against the Arians 2.18.32"
Consider by how many testimonies the Word of the Lord urges us to recite the Holy Scriptures in order that we may possess through faith what we have repeated with our mouth.… And elsewhere it is written, I remembered the mercy of your youth. - "The Testament of Horsiesi 52"