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Rh man joined to the Logos, after having been exalted, became. Still more of kinship in tradition is to be seen between Marcellus and Nestorius when in Marcellus Christ appears as the beginner of a new humanity. It was for this purpose, that the Logos took on the man, viz. that he might assist the man who has been deprived by the devil of his position of glory, in gaining victory over the latter. He, the man joined to the Logos, is the and the , the  , he is the image of the Logos and thus of the invisible God , and, having become  and  he received thereby the firstfruits of the