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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion… (1885)

Gird Thy sword upon Thy thigh, O most mighty, with Thy glory and Thy majesty.” [13] For the Father, after making Him a little lower than the angels, “will crown Him with glory and honour, and put all things under His feet.” [14] “Then shall they look on Him whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, tribe after tribe;” [15] because, no doubt, they once refused to acknowledge Him in the lowliness of His human condition. He is even a man, says Jeremiah, and who shall recognise Him. Therefore, asks Isaiah, “who shall declare His generation?”
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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion… (1885)

At first He is clad in sordid garments, that is to say, in the lowliness of suffering and mortal flesh: then the devil resisted Him, as the instigator of the traitor Judas, not to mention his tempting Him after His baptism: afterwards He was stripped of His first filthy raiment, and adorned with the priestly robe [18] and mitre, and a pure diadem; [19] in other words, with the glory and honour of His second advent. [20] If I may offer, moreover, an interpretation of the two goats which were presented on “the great day of atonement,” [21] do they not also figure the two natures of Christ?
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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion… (1885)

Of this advent the same prophet says: “Behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days; and they brought Him before Him, and there was given Him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away; and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” [12] Then indeed He shall have both a glorious form, and an unsullied beauty above the sons of men. “Thou art fairer,” says (the Psalmist) , “than the children of men
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