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152 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
person; for the word is not of the flesh, but of the spirit; but the voice
is not of the spirit, but of the flesh, because all bodies have the voice
only, but have not the word, inasmuch as they have not in them the soul
in the person. For every beast and bird, together with cattle and
creeping things of the earth, utter the voice only; but because man has
in him a soul, and is not like the rest of the other bodies, he uses the
word and the voice....
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But I am not alleging, as in a discussion, proofs respecting the soul,
to require many things to be said ;
but I am sowing a few things into
your ears, that they may be instruction for you. But more especially
from the reasoning faculty of the word do we comprehend the power of
the soul which is in us; because the reasoning faculty of the word is not
found in any of the bodies, as we have said, but in man only...,
'Thus also was it effected in this
economy of Christ, that John the
Baptist, because he was about to preach respecting God the Word, was
called a voice; I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the
For whom but for the Word the Lord, whom he preached that men
way.
should prepare a way in their souls for the coming of His doctrine The
Son is therefore called the Word, in order that He might show us that
He is from the Father in nature, like as the word also is
begotten from
the power of the soul. Our Lord therefore put on the flesh, like the
word the voice : and more than is the mixture of the word with the
voice, is
the mixture of God the Word with the flesh which He put on.'
The passages in the above extract which contain the direct quotations run thus in
the original ;
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co^oica.fio
^ r^X^csi^Jsa coA ,^_aoca-i r^.T •. .qqi tv *r>
K'oco ^o^ •.
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.K'ocnrt' K'caAT