How can you use the “Ascension of Isaiah” when it is blasphemous? It describes Jesus as “disguising” Himself as an angel through several trips on the way to being born. The Lord has no need to disguise Himself. And many authorities agree that the Odes of Solomon are heretical. “The Father being milked by the Holy Spirit to cause the incarnation of Jesus.”
The Lord has no need to disguise Himself.OT, but What do you make of the disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24) who didn't recognize Jesus after the Resurrection?
But since it's generally acknowledged to be a composite work, parts of it may still be instructive . . . not as a matter of which belief is demanded, but an indication as to what Christians of the third century were thinking.