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Pre-existence of Christ

The Son did not begin at Bethlehem — he was with the Father before creation itself

The pre-existence of Christ is the conviction that the Son existed eternally with the Father before the Incarnation and before the world was made. Christians find this in passages such as John 1, which speaks of the Word who was in the beginning with God; Philippians 2; and Colossians 1. On this teaching the historic churches broadly agree: the one born of Mary is the eternal Son who took on human nature.

How it traveled

  1. Hebrews
    Rome · 67
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  2. Philippians
    Rome · 67
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  3. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
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  4. Luke
    Rome · 84
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  5. Acts
    Rome · 84
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  6. John
    Ephesus · 100
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  7. Revelation
    Patmos · 100
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  8. 1 John
    Ephesus · 100
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  9. Dialogue with Trypho
    Rome · 165
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  10. Against Heresies: Book IV
    Lyons · 202
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  11. Against Praxeas.
    — · 220
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  12. Melito, the Philosopher.
    — · 220
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  13. A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.
    Rome · 258
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  14. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
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  15. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
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  16. Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.)
    Alexandria · 373
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  17. The Incarnation of the Word
    Alexandria · 373
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  18. Defence of Dionysius. (De Sententia Dionysii.)
    Alexandria · 373
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  19. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  20. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  21. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
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  22. Exposition of the Christian Faith
    Milan · 397
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  23. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  24. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  25. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  26. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  28. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  29. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  30. The Seven Books of John Cassian on the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius
    Marseille · 435
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  31. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
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  32. John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
    Damascus · 749
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  33. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  34. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  35. Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator
    Geneva · 1564
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  36. A History of the Work of Redemption
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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