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THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD PROF. M. M. NINAN Saint Theophilus of Antioch (to about 185 CE) Theophilus, Patriarch of Antioch succeeded Eros c. 169, and was succeeded by Maximus I c. 183, according to Henry Fynes Clinton, but these dates are only approximations. His death probably occurred between 183 and 185. Born: Mesopotamia, Iraq Died: 183 AD, Antioch, Turkey “keeping the commandment of God, he should receive as reward from Him immortality, and [man] should become God." “Was man made by nature mortal? Certainly not. Was he, then, immortal? Neither do we affirm this. But one will say, Was he, then, nothing? Not even this hits the mark. He was by nature neither mortal nor immortal. For if He had made him immortal from the beginning, He would have made him God. Again, if He had made him mortal, God would seem to be the cause of his death. Neither, then, immortal nor yet mortal did He make him, but, as we have said above, capable of both; so that if he should incline to the things of immortality, keeping the commandment of God, he should receive as reward from Him immortality, and [man] should become God." (Theophilus of Antioch. "To Autolycus 2: 27." Ante-Nicene Fathers. Ed. Alexander Roberts. Vol. 2. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905. 105. Print.) 71
THEOSIS: PARTAKERS OF DIVINITY WITH GOD PROF. M. M. NINAN St Irenaeus, Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul (now Lyons, France) (130-202) “If the Word is made man, it is that man might become gods.” God "became what we are in order to make us what he is himself."· (Irenaeus, "Book 4, Chapter XXXVIII", Against Heresies) "... our Lord Jesus Christ, who did... become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself." "'For we cast blame upon [God], because we have not been made gods from the beginning, but at first merely men, then at length gods; although God has adopted this course..[so] that no one may impute to Him invidiousness or grudgingness he declares, "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are sons of the Most High." "For it was necessary, at first, that nature should be exhibited; then, after that, that what was mortal should be conquered and swallowed up by immortality, and the corruptible by incorruptibility, and that man should be made after the image and likeness of God." He declares, “I have said, Ye are gods; and ye are all sons of the Highest.” But since we could not sustain the power of divinity, He adds, “But ye shall die like men," setting forth both truths - the kindness of His free gift, and our weakness, and also that we were possessed of power over ourselves. For after His great kindness He graciously conferred good [upon us], and made men like to Himself, [that is] in their own power; while at the same time by His prescience He knew the infirmity of human beings, and the consequences which would flow from it; but through [His] love and [His] power, He shall overcome the substance of created nature. For it was necessary, at first, that nature should be exhibited; then, after that, that what was mortal should be conquered and swallowed up by immortality, and the corruptible by incorruptibility, and that man should be made after the image and likeness of God, having received the knowledge of good and evil. Clement of Alexandria, "Chapter I", Exhortation to the Heathen) 72
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