
Augustine of Hippo
Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 1
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.
(de Hær. 8, et 10.) Cerinthus then and Ebion made Jesus Christ only man; Paul of Samosata, following them, asserted Christ not to have had an existence from eternity, but to have begun to be from His birth of the Virgin Mary; he also thought Him nothing more than man. This heresy was afterwards confirmed by Photinus.