Novatian — On the Trinity 11
Who then would doubt — when at the end it is said, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us” — that Christ, whose birth it is, is human because he became flesh, and is God because he is the Word of God, and would not hesitate to say so, especially when he notices that the evangelical Scripture has bound both those substances into one concord of Christ’s nativity?
For this is the one who “goes out from his chamber like a bridegroom; he exulted like a giant to run the course; his going out is from the highest heaven and his return is to the highest,” since no one has gone up to the highest into heaven except the one who came down from heaven — the Son of Man who is in the heavens.
Latin
Quis igitur dubitet, cum in extrema parte dicitur: Verbum caro factum est, et habitauit in nobis, Christum, cuius est natiuitas, et quia caro factus est, esse hominem, et quia uerbum Dei, Deum incunctanter edicere esse, praesertim cum animaduertat scripturam euangelicam utramque istam substantiam in unam natiuitatis Christi foederasse concordiam? 4. Hic est enim qui sicut sponsus egreditur de thalamo suo, exultauit ut gigas ad currendam uiam; a summo caelo egressio eius et usque ad summum regressio eius, quoniam usque ad summum nec quisquam in caelum ascendit, nisi qui de caelo descendit; Filius hominis qui est in caelis.