* “But,” he said, “The Lord is
also called ‘the New Adam.’ How could he be called this, if he had not borne
the body of the first man? The first man was incorruptible before the fall;
therefore the body of the Lord, too, was incorruptible, for it always remained
sinless.”
+ “Whether the body of the first
man,” I said, “happened to be incorruptible or not, I for one will not say, as long
as they feel no shame in not attributing the immortality of the first man (εως αν μη το αθανατον αυτους καταιδει του πρωτοπλαστου). (Leontius of
Byzantium, “A Dialogue against those of our Party who Adhere to the Corrupt
Doctrine of the Aphthartodocetists (Book II. Contra Aphthartodecetas),”
in Leontius of Byzantium: Complete Works, ed. Brian E. Daley [Oxford
Early Christian Texts; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017], 377; note “+”
indicates the perspective of Leontius while “*” denotes that of his interlocutor)
