was truly born of the Virgin, having clothed Himself with a body of like passions with our own. He who forms all men in the womb, was Himself really in the womb, and made for Himself a body of the seed of the Virgin, but without any intercourse of man. He was carried in the womb, even as we are, for the usual period of time ; and was really born, as we also are ; and was in reality nour- ished with milk, and partook of common meat and drink, even as we do. And when He had lived among men for thirty years, He was baptized by John, really and not in appearance ; and when He had preached the Gospel three years, and done signs and wonders. He who was Himself the Judge was judged by the Jews, falsely so called, and by Pilate the governor ; was scourged, was smitten on the cheek, was spit upon ; He wore a crown of thorns and a purple robe ; He was condemned : He was crucified in reality, and not in appearance, not in imagination, not in deceit. He really died, and was buried, and rose from the dead, even as He prayed in a certain place, saying, " But do Thou, O Lord, raise me up again, and I shall recompense them." ' And the Father, who always hears Him,^ answered and said, " Arise, O God, and judge the earth ; for Thou shalt receive all the heathen for Thine inheritance." ^ The Father, therefore, who raised Him up, will also raise us up through Him, apart from whom no one will attain to true life. For says He, " I am the life ; he that believeth in me, even though he die, shall live : and every one that liveth and believeth in me, even though he die, shall live for ever." ■♦ Do ye therefore flee from these ungodly heresies ; for they are the inventions of the devil, that serpent who was the author of evil, and who by means of the woman deceived Adam, the father of our race.