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the Son is of the Father's nature. For every offspring is the silent word of the one who begot it. And if anyone should say this because it is inherent in beings, he will not miss the mark. For what is there that was not established by Word? Wisdom, as the knowledge of things both divine and human. For how is it possible for the one who made the principles to be ignorant of the things he has made? Power, as the preserver of the things that have come into being, and supplying the power for them to be held together. Truth, as one, not many in nature; for the true is one, but the false is many-branched; and as the pure seal of the Father, and a most unerring character. Image, as being of one substance, and because this is from that, but the Father is not from this. For this is the nature of an image, to be a representation of its archetype, and of that of which it is called; except that there is more here. For in the one case, it is a motionless image of a moving original; but here, it is a living image of a living original, and possesses the unchangeableness more perfectly than Seth did of Adam, and than any offspring of its begetter. For such is the nature of simple beings, not to be like in one respect and unlike in another, but to be the whole stamp of the whole, and rather the same than a likeness. Light, as the brightness of souls being purified both in word and in life. For if ignorance and sin are darkness, knowledge and the godly life would be light. Life, because He is light, and the constitution and substance of every rational nature. For in Him we live, and move, and have our being, according to the twofold power of the inbreathing, both all of us breathing in life from there, and as many as are capable, the Holy Spirit, and so much so, as we open the mouth of our mind. Righteousness, because He is a distributor according to merit, and arbitrates justly for those under law and those under grace, for soul and body, so that one rules and the other is ruled, and the better has dominion over the worse, so that the worse does not rise up against the better. Sanctification, as purity, so that the pure may be received by purity. Redemption, as freeing us who are held captive by sin, and giving Himself as a ransom for us, a purification for the world. Resurrection, as raising us up from here, and bringing us back to life who were deadened by sin.

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These things, then, are still common to Him who is above us and to Him who is for our sakes. But the following are specifically ours and of the assumption from here: Man, not only that He might be contained by bodies through a body, since He would not otherwise be contained because of the incomprehensibility of His nature; but also that He might sanctify man through Himself, becoming like a leaven to the whole lump, and by uniting to Himself all that was condemned, He might release the whole from condemnation, becoming for all men all that we are, except for sin: body, soul, mind, all through which death comes. The common element from these, Man, is God seen, because of what is conceived. Son of Man, both because of Adam and because of the Virgin, from whom He was born; from the one as forefather, and from the other as mother, by law and not by law of generation. Christ, because of the Godhead; for this is the anointing of the manhood, sanctifying not by an operation, as in the other anointed ones, but by the presence of the whole Anointer; whose work it is that the Anointer is called Man, and that which is anointed is made God. The Way, as leading us through Himself. The Door, as the one who brings us in. Shepherd, as making us dwell in a place of green pasture, and nurturing us at the water of rest, and leading us from there, and fighting before us against the wild beasts; turning back the wandering, bringing back the lost, binding up the broken, guarding the strong, and gathering to the fold beyond by the words of pastoral knowledge. Sheep, as a victim for sacrifice; Lamb, as perfect. High Priest, as the one who brings us near. Melchizedek, as without mother in that which is above us, and without father in that which is according to us; and as without genealogy in what is from above; For "who," it says, "shall declare his generation?" and as King of Salem, which is peace, and as King of Righteousness, and as receiving tithes from patriarchs who prevail against the evil powers. You have the titles of the Son. Walk through them, those that are lofty, in a godly manner, and those that are bodily, in a sympathetic manner; or rather, all of it in a godly manner, that you may become a god, having ascended from below, because of Him who

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πατρὸς φύσεως ὁ υἱός. γέννημα γὰρ ἅπαν τοῦ γεγεννηκότος σιωπῶν λόγος. εἰ δὲ καὶ διὰ τὸ ἐνυπάρχειν τοῖς οὖσι λέγοι τις, οὐχ ἁμαρτήσεται τοῦ λόγου. τί γάρ ἐστιν, ὃ μὴ λόγῳ συνέστηκεν; σοφία δέ, ὡς ἐπιστήμη θείων τε καὶ ἀνθρωπίνων πραγμάτων. πῶς γὰρ οἷόν τε τὸν πεποι ηκότα τοὺς λόγους ἀγνοεῖν ὧν πεποίηκεν; δύναμις δέ, ὡς συν τηρητικὸς τῶν γενομένων, καὶ τὴν τοῦ συνέχεσθαι ταῦτα χορηγῶν δύναμιν. ἀλήθεια δέ, ὡς ἕν, οὐ πολλὰ τῇ φύσει· τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἀληθὲς ἕν, τὸ δὲ ψεῦδος πολυσχιδές· καὶ ὡς καθαρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς σφραγίς, καὶ χαρακτὴρ ἀψευδέστατος. εἰκὼν δέ, ὡς ὁμοούσιον, καὶ ὅτι τοῦτο ἐκεῖθεν, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἐκ τούτου πατήρ. αὕτη γὰρ εἰκόνος φύσις, μίμημα εἶναι τοῦ ἀρχετύπου, καὶ οὗ λέγεται· πλὴν ὅτι καὶ πλέον ἐνταῦθα. ἐκεῖ μὲν γὰρ ἀκίνητος κινουμένου· ἐνταῦθα δὲ ζῶντος καὶ ζῶσα, καὶ πλέον ἔχουσα τὸ ἀπαράλλακτον, ἢ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ὁ Σήθ, καὶ τοῦ γεννῶντος παντὸς τὸ γεννώμενον. τοιαύτη γὰρ ἡ τῶν ἁπλῶν φύσις, μὴ τῷ μὲν ἐοικέναι, τῷ δὲ ἀπεοικέναι, ἀλλ' ὅλον ὅλου τύπον εἶναι, καὶ ταὐτὸν μᾶλλον, ἢ ἀφομοίωμα. φῶς δέ, ὡς λαμπρότης ψυχῶν καὶ λόγῳ καὶ βίῳ καθαιρομένων. εἰ γὰρ σκότος ἡ ἄγνοια καὶ ἡ ἁμαρτία, φῶς ἂν εἴη ἡ γνῶσις, καὶ ὁ βίος ὁ ἔνθεος. ζωὴ δέ, ὅτι φῶς, καὶ πάσης λογικῆς φύσεως σύστασις καὶ οὐσίωσις. ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ζῶμεν, καὶ κινούμεθα, καὶ ἐσμέν, κατὰ τὴν διπλῆν τοῦ ἐμφυσήματος δύναμιν, καὶ πνοὴν ἐκεῖθεν ἐμφυσώμενοι πάντες, καὶ πνεῦμα ἅγιον ὅσοι χωρητικοί, καὶ τοσοῦτον, καθ' ὅσον ἂν τὸ στόμα τῆς διανοίας ἀνοίξωμεν. δικαιοσύνη δέ, ὅτι τοῦ πρὸς ἀξίαν διαιρέτης, καὶ διαιτῶν δικαίως τοῖς ὑπὸ νόμον καὶ τοῖς ὑπὸ χάριν, ψυχῇ καὶ σώματι, ὥστε τὸ μὲν ἄρχειν, τὸ δὲ ἄρχεσθαι, καὶ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν ἔχειν τὸ κρεῖττον κατὰ τοῦ χείρονος, ὡς μὴ τὸ χεῖρον ἐπανίστασθαι τῷ βελτίονι. ἁγιασμὸς δέ, ὡς καθαρότης, ἵνα χωρῆται τὸ καθαρὸν καθαρότητι. ἀπολύτρωσις δέ, ὡς ἐλευθερῶν ἡμᾶς ὑπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας κατεχομένους, καὶ λύτρον ἑαυτὸν ἀντι διδοὺς ἡμῶν τῆς οἰκουμένης καθάρσιον. ἀνάστασις δέ, ὡς ἐντεῦθεν ἡμᾶς ἀπανιστάς, καὶ πρὸς τὴν ζωὴν ἐπανάγων νενεκρωμένους ὑπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας.

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