Hymn of the early Church singers (quoted by Ignatius, martyr-bishop)

chapter 7 of the LETTER to Ephesians

Very flesh, yet Spirit too.

Uncreated, and yet born.

God-and-Man in One agreed,

Very-Life-in-Death indeed,

Fruit of God and Mary's seed.

At once impassible and torn

By pain and suffering here below:

JESUS CHRIST, whom as our Lord

we know!

translated in EARLY CHRISTIAN
WRITINGS by Maxwell Staniforth

(Penguin, 1968)