Leo the Great
5th century · AD 461 · Pre-Schism Western · 165 passages
Bishop of Rome whose Tome clarified how Christ is both divine and human; a plain and dignified preacher.
In his own words on Philippians
- Philippians 2:7
He "assumed the form of a slave" without the stain of sin, enhancing the human without diminishing the divine. That emptying by which the invisible One offered himself to be seen and the Creator and Lord of all things elected to be one among mortals was a sovereign act of stooping in majestic pity, not a defect of power.
EPISTLE 28 TO FLAVIAN 3
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations — including the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers and the early patristic chain-commentary compiled in the Catena Aurea. Each quotation links to its source.