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In what way did He come but this, "The Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us"? Just as when we speak, in order that what we nave
in our minds may enter through the ear into the mind of the hearer, the
word which we have in our hearts becomes an outward sound and is called
speech; and yet our thought does not lose itself in the sound, but
remains complete in itself, and takes the form of speech without being
modified in its own nature by the change: so the Divine Word, though
suffering no change of nature, yet became flesh, that He might dwell
among us.
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