{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-516","native_reference":{"book_number":610,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians</p><p>And again, \"For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus; \"[16]</p><p>Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians</p><p>said also that \"there is one Mediator between God and men.\"[20]</p><p>Nor were they ashamed of the incarnation and the passion. For what says [one]? \"The man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself\"[21]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V</p><p>And therefore in the last times the Lord has restored us into friendship through His incarnation, having become \"the Mediator between God and men; \"[142]</p><p>Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ</p><p>The Apostle Paul likewise says: \"The man Christ Jesus is the one Mediator between God and man.\"[216]</p><p>Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh</p><p>Designated, as He is, \"the Mediator[382]</p><p>Wherever it may be, it is in safe keeping in God's presence, through that most faithful \"Mediator between God and man, (the man) Jesus Christ,\"[472]</p><p>Tertullian Against Praxeas</p><p>in respect of that nature, in which He was Spirit, reserving for the flesh the appellation \"Son of Man.\" In like manner, again, the apostle calls Him \"the Mediator between God and Men,\"[395]</p><p>Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments</p><p>Now, in order that He might be shown to have together in Himself at once the nature of God and that of man,-as the apostle, too, says: \"Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.[60]</p><p>A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity</p><p>And rightly, as there is in Him something which excels the creature, the agreement of the divinity and the humanity seems to be pledged in Him: for which reason He who is declared as made the \"Mediator between God and man\"[175]</p><p>Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV</p><p>He was therefore both God and man, being placed in the middle between God and man. From which the Greeks call Him Mesites,[336]</p>","source_html_sha256":"599138d777ca951790a00845316cd88ccca343def5519007e4fa36930cc018c4","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":516,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"b828e23d980a2768b605c11787288f3e57feb425628419262a748a7025c8b35a","translator":null,"work":null}