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having begotten, should fall away. 10. From the Catechetical Oration of Gregory of Nyssa: For a man is born from union and after death comes to be in corruption. If the preaching contained these things, you would certainly not have thought him to be God who is testified to by the properties of our nature. [But since you hear that he was begotten, but that he transcended the commonality of our nature both in the manner of his birth and in his being unsusceptible to the alteration into corruption. 11. Behold, they say the incorruptibility of Christ is his sinlessness, just as the fathers do. Therefore, the body of Christ not being dissolved in the tomb into those things from which it was composed was because it was held together by divine power and did not possess incorruptibility by nature; even if he was sinless, he was nevertheless corruptible by nature, since he put on the Adam who came to be under sin, not the one who had come to be in incorruptibility before the transgression. That Adam became corruptible from being incorruptible, hear the teaching of the fathers that Adam was incorruptible before the transgression...

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γεννήσας διαπέσῃ. 10. Γρηγορίου Νύσσης ἐκ τοῦ Κατηχητικοῦ· Ἄνθρωπος μὲν γὰρ ἐκ συνδυασμοῦ τίκτεται καὶ μετὰ θάνατον ἐν δια-φθορᾷ γίνεται. Εἰ ταῦτα περιεῖχε τὸ κήρυγμα οὐκ ἂν θεὸν εἶναι πάντως ᾠήθης τὸν τοῖς ἰδιώμασι τῆς φύσεως ἡμῶν μαρτυρούμενον. [̓Επεὶ δὲ γεγεννῆσθαι μὲν αὐτὸν ἀκούεις, ἐκβεβηκέναι δὲ τῆς φύσεως ἡμῶν τὴν κοινότητα τῷ τε τῆς γενέσεως τρόπῳ καὶ τῷ ἀνεπιδέκτῳ τῆς εἰς φθορὰν ἀλλοιώ-σεως. 11. Ἰδοὺ τὸ ἄφθαρτον τοῦ Χριστοῦ φασι τὸ ἀναμάρτητον ὥσπερ οἱ πατέρες. Ἦν ἄρα τὸ μὴ διαλύεσθαι ἐν τάφῳ τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς τὰ ἐξ ὧν συνετέθη ὡς θείᾳ δυνάμει συγκροτούμενον καὶ οὐ φύσει τὸ ἄφθαρτον κεκτημένον· εἰ καὶ ἀναμάρτητος, ἀλλ' οὖν φθαρτὸς ἦν κατὰ φύσιν, ὡς τὸν ὑπὸ ἁμαρτίαν γενόμενον Ἀδὰμ ἐνδυσάμενος, οὐ τὸν πρὸ τῆς παραβάσεως ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ γεγενημένον. Ὅτι δὲ ἐξ ἀφθάρτου φθαρτὸς γέγονεν ὁ Ἀδάμ, ἄκουε τῆς τῶν πατέρων διδασκαλίας ὅτι ἄφθαρτος ἦν ὁ Ἀδὰμ πρὸ τῆς παραβάσεως...