"Thus God the Word himself, when he had been conceived and born in the flesh, showed Mary the Mother of God to be the one who had given birth to the Word endued with a body; and it was in accord with what is better and wonderful that she was named, since the mystery itself consisted in this - namely, the kingship of what is better, and the lifting up of our race from this place, and its transformation into something better."
St Severus of Antioch, Text 15 Homily XIV Translated from PO 38/2: 400-15
"But that the teachings of the God-clad Fathers agree with these things, hear again the quotation, which is inspired by God, of Cyril, who says as follows in the Treatise of Address to the God-fearing emperor Theodosius: “Is it not then already known—for it is not unknown to anyone at all—that the Only-Begotten became like us, that is, fully man, in order that he might set free our earthly body from intrusive corruption, imparting his own life to it, in the economy through the union.
But he made the human soul his own that he might show it superior to sin, and he imparted to it the firmness and unchangeableness of his own nature, as dye in a fleece."
St Severus of Antioch, Letter I of Severus to Sergius the Grammarian
Comments
St. Severus of Antioch, Homily X, On the Epiphany
So also after he had risen from among the dead
Went up and was exalted in the body to heaven,
Though he had never left or abandoned the throne of glory;
In order that, having raised with him all of us who have been saved by grace
Like a second Adam, he might also make us to sit with him
In heaven in great God-befitting glory,
According to the abundant and incomprehensible riches
Of His grace toward us.
...
And, being joined to the sublime hosts
And having been exalted with him
That is exalted and cannot be approached,
Let us make answer to the more sublime hosts and say,
Lift up the gates, rulers among you;
And be opened and lifted up, eternal gates,
And the great King of all the ages in glory shall come in,
The Lord of all hosts.
The Word of God, who shone on us,
Who were aforetime sitting in darkness
And in the shadows of death,
Through his saving coming in the flesh,
And raised us with him, who were dead,
Through his glorious Resurrection from the dead,
Hath made us to ascend together with him to heaven
Through his divine Ascension, and to sit with him in glory before his Father.
Let us mind things that are above;
Let us seek things that are above;
Let us forget deeds that are of the earth and earthly,
Praising the riches of his God-befitting mercifulness toward us,
And his mercy that cannot be measured.
The hosts of heaven shook with amazement,
And trembling seized the lines and ranks of the bodiless armies of angels,
When they saw that their Creator and Maker,
Christ, the Word of God and the Father,
Who became by dispensation the second Adam,
Had in the body been lifted into the heights and exalted,
And had passed through all the heavens,
And in him with him lifted us all to the exalted heights
And made us sit with him in glory and with his heavenly Father,
Us, the strangers, the far-removed and rejected,
The enemies, who are not in any way worthy even of earth.
Hymn 107
http://tasbeha.org/community/discussion/15450/the-deification-of-man-hh-pope-shenouda-iii/p1
I want to keep this thread only on St. Severus' views of deification.