The following comes from Against Heresies 3.22.2:
On the other hand, His [supposed] “descent into Mary”
would be useless. For why would He descend into her if He were to receive
nothing from her? And, if He received nothing from Mary, He would never have
taken of the foods got from the earth, by which the body that was taken from
the earth is nourished; nor would His body have hungered and sought its food
after the fast of forty days, in imitation of Moses and Elias. Neither would
His disciple John, when writing of Him, have said, So Jesus, wearied as He was with the journey, sat down. Nor would
David have exclaimed of Him in prophecy, And
they had added to the grief of my wounds. nor would Jesus have wept over
Lazarus; nor would He have sweat drops of blood; nor would He have said, My soul is very sorrowful. nor would
blood and water have flowed from His side when it was pierced. For all these
things are indications of the flesh that was taken from the earth, which He
recapitulated in Himself, thus saving His handiwork. (St.
Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the Heresies, Book 3 [trans. Dominic J. Unger;
Ancient Christian Writers 64; New York: the Newman Press, 2012], 103-4)
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