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Augustine, On the Trinity 8.7 (E. Hill, trans., The Trinity, in The Works of St. Augustine, part 1, vol. 5 [Brooklyn, NY: New City Press, 1991], pp. 246–247.)

Thomas F. Mathews, The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993).

Origen, Against Celsus 6.75–77. See also John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Psalms 44.3.

Origen, Against Celsus 6.75–77 (trans. adapted from Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4, p. 607).

In truth, historians can say very little about the nature of Arian Gothic Christology or elaborate its differences from that of the Orthodox “conquerors” of Ravenna. We have no reason to think that the Arian Goths were also prone to Nestorianism, for instance.

See Neil MacGregor with Erika Langmuir, Seeing Salvation: Images of Christ in Art (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2000), pp. 80–81, esp. 81: “The miracles and teaching [scenes in Sant’Apollinare Nuovo] reveal his divine nature, but it is as a man that Christ is betrayed, judged and led to his death.”

Justin Martyr, First Apology 21.

Paul Zanker, The Mask of Socrates, trans. Alan Shapiro (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1995), pp. 289–292.

See Demsky, “Holy City and Holy Land as Viewed by Jews and Christians in the Byzantine Period: A Conceptual Approach to Sacred Space,” in Sanctity of Time and Space in Tradition and Modernity, ed. A. Houtman, Marcel J.H.M. Poorthuis and Joshua Schwartz (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 285–296, 361–368.