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If, then, any one allege that in this respect the flesh of the Lord was different from ours, because it indeed did not commit sin, neither was deceit found in His soul, while we, on the other hand, are sinners, he says what is the fact. But if he pretends that the Lord possessed another substance of flesh, the sayings respecting reconciliation will not agree with that man. For that thing is reconciled which had formerly been in enmity. Now, if the Lord had taken flesh from another substance, He would not, by so doing, have reconciled that one to God which had become inimical through transgression. But now, by means of communion with Himself, the Lord has reconciled man to God the Father, in reconciling us to Himself by the body of His own flesh, and redeeming us by His own blood, as the apostle says to the Ephesians, "In whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins;" ¹ and again to the same he says, "Ye who formerly were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ;" ² and again, "Abolishing in His flesh the enmities, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances." ³ And in every Epistle the apostle plainly testifies, that through the flesh of our Lord, and through His blood, we have been saved.