Disputationis contra Ebionitas, Iesu Christi Domini nostri deitatem negantes & philou anthrōpou eum esse fingentes sōmatopoiēsis

of the Orthodox Church, we shall confirm: so that if there are any among the Ebionites an early sect who believed Jesus was a mere man who are not entirely idiognōmones kai stereognōmones self-opinionated and stubborn/stiff-minded, they may see how great the evidence for this is, and yield to the manifest truth.

I. If our Lord Jesus is not God, but a mere man, then it follows that he is not the Christ. With this most false hypothesis posited, horrible absurdities follow, some of which I shall at least recite. 1. That he is not the Mediator between God and men. 2. That he was not present with the Church from its very beginning: and therefore there was no Church: for indeed it cannot even be imagined as akephalos headless. 3. That the Lord Jesus is not the Lord of David. 4. That he is not amētōr without mother. 5. That he was not seen by the Fathers in the Spirit. 6. That he is not the creator and preserver of the world: since it is established that it seemed good to God the Father to restore us through him, through whom he created all things. 7. That the Lord Jesus could not, and cannot, save his people from their sins. 8. Finally, that the Lord Jesus, being in no way superior to other mortals, had need of another redeemer, etc.

But the opposites are most true.
For this Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, John 20:31. He is the one Mediator between God and Men, 1 Tim. 2:5. The same is yesterday, today, and forever, Heb. 13:8. He was present with the Israelites in the desert, 1 Cor. 10:4. He is amētōr without mother, Heb. 7:3. His day was seen by Abraham, John 8:56. He is the creator of the universe, and he in whom it pleased the Father to gather together