August 27, 2008

• Who is Jesus?

  I read something in Philip Schaff’s History of the Christian Church that was amazing about Jesus and His deity.  I thought it would be good to share it with the Xanga world because it comes from an ancient source.  It comes from Melito of Sardis; a bishop of Sardis that lived in the first two centuries of the church (100-200 AD).  I think it is incredible that with little over a hundred years and the theology is really well-developed on the deity of Christ.  Here is the quote and I hope it will inspire us all to worship and glorify Him with our lives.

  “The Lord Jesus Christ is acknowledged as the perfect Reason, the Word of God; who was begotten before the light; who was Creator with the Father; who was the Fashioner of men; who was all things in all; Patriarch among the patriarchs, Law in the law, Chief Priest among the priests, King among the kings, Prophet among the prophets, Archangel among the angels; He piloted Noah, conducted Abraham, was bound with Isaac, exiled with Jacob, was Captain with Moses; He foretold His own sufferings in David and the prophets; He was incarnate in the Virgin; worshipped by the Magi; He healed the lame, gave sight to the blind, was rejected by the people, condemned by Pilate, hanged upon the tree, buried in the earth, rose from the dead and appeared to the apostles, ascended to heaven; He is the Rest of the departed, the Recoverer of the lost, the Light of the blind, the Refuge for the afflicted, the Bridegroom of the Church, the Charioteer of the cherubim, the Captain of angels; God who is of God, the Son of the Father, the King forever and ever.”      
                                        –Melito of Sardis in Philip Schaff’s History of the Christian Church, (v. II, pg. 739)

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