"The first problem is that, because the paradox of Christ's humanity and divinity
arises first and foremost from the books the early ... one that resulted from the
later orthodox struggling to come to grips with two apparently irreconcilable
affirmations. ... Then only a few verses later, the same book and the same author
says, “The Word became flesh and made his ... that the two ideas about Jesus
Christ were “completely different,” ..."
"Origen, Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans I.15 (Scheck 103, 87). 186.
Ibid., I.16.1 (PG 14:862; trans. Scheck, 88). 187. Ibid., I.16.2 (PG 14:862; trans.
Scheck, 88). Origen makes a distinction between the wrath that is revealed from
heaven and a selfinflicted wrath, “For in reality those who are totally devoid of the
truth, as if they have nothing in common with heaven and with the light, are
bearing the wrath of their own v ..."