The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus
Fragment VII
Page 295 of 526
But if it (the flesh) did not become of like nature with that (the deity), neither shall it ever become of like natural energy with that; that He may not be shown to have His energy unequal with His nature, and heterogeneous, and, through all that pertains to Himself, to have entered on an existence outside of His natural equality and identity,1765 which is an impious supposition.
Notes
- 1765
phusikes exo gegonos isotetos kai tautoetos.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.