{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/205/2050234.htm","path":"chr/ecf/205/2050234.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/205/2050234.htm","text":"\u201cThen why,\u201d it is asked, \u201cdid the Deity descend to such humiliation? Our faith is staggered to think that God, that incomprehensible, inconceivable, and ineffable reality, transcending all glory of greatness, wraps Himself up in the base covering of humanity, so that His sublime operations as well are debased by this admixture with the grovelling earth.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. V: Apologetic Works.: Chapter XIV","type":"page"}