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Lucifer of Cagliari

4th century · AD 370 · Western · 1 passages

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In his own words on Philippians

  • Philippians 2:6

    It was he who was and is and always shall be in the form of the Father, the true Son, immutable and unchangeable because he is God and the all-powerful Son of the Almighty, who nonetheless deigned to lower himself for our salvation, so that he might cause us to rise even as we lay prostrate.

    ON DYING FOR THE SON OF GOD 12

Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.