Note 263 — Chapter III

Footnote 263:

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Even Hermas docs not speak of Jesus as ανθρωπος (see Link). This designation was used by the representatives of the Adoptian Christology only after they had expressed their doctrine antithetically and developed it to a theory, and always with a certain reservation. The "ανθρωπος Χριστος Ιησους" in 1 Tim. II. 5 is used in a special sense. The expression ανθρωπος for Christ appears twice in the Ignatian Epistles (the third passage Smyrn. 4. 2: αυτου με ενδυναμουντος του τελειου ανθρωπου γενομενου, apart from the γενομενου, is critically suspicious, as well as the fourth, Eph. 7. 2; see above), in both passages, however, in connections which seem to modify the humanity; see Eph. 20. 1: οικονομια εις τον καινον ανθρωπον Ιησουν Χριστον, Eph. 20. 2: τωι 'υιωι ανθρωπου και 'υιωι θεου.