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Remember, therefore, my beloved friend, that thou hast been redeemed by the flesh of our Lord, re-established 1 by His blood; and "holding the Head, from which the whole body of the Church, having been fitted together, takes increase" 2 --that is, acknowledging the advent in the flesh of the Son of God, and [His] divinity (deum), and looking forward with constancy to His human nature 3 (hominem), availing thyself also of these proofs drawn from Scripture--thou dost easily overthrow, as I have pointed out, all those notions of the heretics which were concocted afterwards.
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"Et sanguine ejus redhibitus," corresponding to the Greek term apokatastatheis. "Redhibere" is properly a forensic term, meaning to cause any article to be restored to the vendor. ↩
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Col. ii. 19. ↩
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Harvey restores the Greek thus, kai ton autou anthropon bebaios ekdechomenos, which he thinks has a reference to the patient waiting for "Christ's second advent to judge the world." The phrase might also be translated, and "receiving stedfastly His human nature." ↩
