“I read there [in "certain books of the Platonists"] that God the Word was born "not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor the will of the flesh, but of God." But, that "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us"”

—  Aurelius Augustinus , book Confessions

I found this nowhere there.
VII, 9
Confessions (c. 397)

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