Silvanus
He [Christ] who has exalted man became like God, not in order that he might bring God down to man, but that man might become like God.
HippolytusYou will be a companion of God, and a co-heir with Christ . . . For you have become divine . . . God has promised to bestow these upon you, for you have been deified and begotten unto immortality.
Origen. . . from Him there began the union of the divine with the human nature. This was so that the human – by communion with the divine – might rise to be divine. This not only happened in Jesus, but also in all those who not only believe, but enter upon the life that Jesus taught.
John TaylorGodliness cannot be conferred but must be acquired.