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Mon. Nat. Or. Paen. Praescr. Prax. Pud. Res. Scap. Scorp. Spect. Val. Virg. ) HE Historia ecclesiastica Theophilus of Antioch (Thph. ) Autol. Ad Autolycum Gos. ) Aen. ) Mem. ) Hist. Historia nova xxxvii Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Abbreviations Secondary Sources Reference works and series AAR Academy series AB ABD ACW AGJU AKG AnBib ANF Ant. , D. N. ) (New York: Doubleday, 1992) Ancient Christian writers (New York: Newman Press) Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums (Leiden: Brill) Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte (Berlin: De Gruyter) Analecta Biblica (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute) Ante-Nicene Fathers (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans) Antiquitas (Bonn: R.
34 See further pt iii, ch. 13, below; ET quoted here, Behr, On the apostolic preaching. 9 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 fr ances m. 35 The divine has shone through the earthly story, because it is about the Son of God, who pre-existed creation, yet, for love of the human race, emptied himself of divinity, became human by being born of the Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit, lived a human life marked by miracles and healings, gave his disciples the supreme ethical teaching, towards which seers and philosophers had aspired but never reached, and above all, took upon himself the sins and sufferings of the human race and overcame them by dying and rising again.