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it was, being always formed and moved by his own divinity according to essence towards the fulfillment of the economy; and whole through whole having been deified by the consent and connaturality towards the paternal, and properly divine by the union, but not by nature, and having truly become and been called so; in no way departing, by being deified, from what is according to nature.

Therefore, by saying 'wholly deified,' the teacher, having set forth the union of his human will with his divine and 0084 paternal will, completely drove away from the mystery of Christ every opposition and those who will the contrary; but by stating, 'For to will was his,' demonstrating both the innate motion of his human will and the essential and natural difference from his divine and paternal will, he wholly discarded confusion along with phantasy. For knowing that this and division, its equal in impiety, war against the principle of the economy, both this divine Father and the holy teachers of the catholic Church like him, with a great voice dogmatized both the difference and the union with respect to each of them; the one being actually and perfectly preserved in the natural principle, and the other again being firmly and hypostatically saved 15Α_110 in the economic mode, for confirmation of the things essentially existing in the one and only Christ God according to the indivisible union, and of all their natural properties. For just as all dogmatized one and another, I mean divine and human, and a double nature in the same and one; so they proclaimed piercingly to all also one and another will, I mean divine and human, and two wills; and one and another operation, both divine and human; and again a double operation, that is, two. For thus they also manifestly proclaimed the numerical significance of the essences. For the same one appears as man, and being by nature God, willing economically for the cup to pass; and to this extent fashioning what is ours, as the wise Cyril taught us; in order that he might drive away from our nature all shrinking from death, and might both temper and arouse it to an impulse manfully directed, I mean, against death itself. But again he appears as God, although being man according to essence, willing paternally to fulfill the economy, and to work out the salvation of us all; and he is shown also as man, being by nature God, operating humanly, and voluntarily accepting the trial of sufferings for our sake; but again he is shown as God, and being by nature man, operating divinely, and naturally putting forth divine signs; from which things it was known that the same one was at once both God and man, possessing naturally the wills and the operations equal in number to the essences from which and in which he existed, for the confirmation of the perfect existence of those things which he properly was.

But if anyone, for the rejection of these things, should contentiously bring forward in argument both the theandric operation of the God-revealer Dionysius, and the cognate of the most wise Cyril, demonstrated by both, let him know that he will gather for himself from this no strength against the pious confession. For the 15Α_112 theandric, expressed with a fitting term by the teacher, clearly signifies periphrastically 0085 a double operation of him who is double by nature. For he manifestly proclaimed a divine and a manly, that is, a human, through the conjunction in the expression; but not a simple one; whence he did not name it numerically, even if he taught it thus, signifying singularly the union of the natural operations; which does not destroy their natural difference; just as neither does their indivisible union destroy the essences themselves; since according to those who say, If he had one operation, and that a theandric one; if indeed the incarnate Word possessed this one as a natural one,

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ἐτύγχανεν, ὑπό τῆς αὐτοῦ καθ᾿ οὐσίαν θεότητος τυπούμενον ἀεί καί κινούμενον πρός τήν τῆς οἰκονομίας ἐκπλήρωσιν· καί ὅλον δι᾿ ὅλου τῇ πρός τό πατρικόν συννεύσει τε καί συμφυΐᾳ τεθεωμένον, καί θεῖον τῇ ἑνώσει κυρίως, ἀλλ᾿ οὐ τῇ φύσει, καί γενόμενον ἀληθῶς καί λεγόμενον· μηδαμῶς τῷ θεωθῆναι, τοῦ κατά φύσιν ἐκστᾷν.

Τῷ γοῦν θεωθέν ὅλον εἰπεῖν, τήν τοῦ κατ᾿ αὐτόν ἀνθρωπίνου θελήματος πρός τό θεῖον αὐτοῦ καί 0084 πατρικόν ἕνωσιν ὁ διδάσκαλος παραστήσας, πᾶσαν ἐναντίωσιν, καί τούς τἀναντία θέλοντας ἐκ τοῦ κατά Χριστόν μυστηρίου τελείως ἀπήλασε· τῷ δέ φάσκειν, "Τό γάρ ἐκείνου θέλειν», τήν τε τοῦ κατ᾿ αὐτόν ἀνθρωπίνου θελήματος ἔμφυτον κίνησιν, καί τήν πρός τό θεῖον αὐτοῦ καί πατρικόν οὐσιώδη καί φυσικήν διαφοράν ἐπιδεικνύμενος, τήν σύγχυσιν μετά τῆς φαντασίας ὁλικῶς ἀπεσκεύασε. Ταύτην γάρ καί τήν ὁμότιμον αὐτῇ ἐπ᾿ ἀσεβείᾳ διαίρεσιν πολεμούσας εἰδότες τόν τῆς οἰκονομίας λόγον, ὅ τε θεῖος οὗτος Πατήρ, καί οἱ κατ᾿ αὐτόν ἅγιοι τῆς καθολικῆς Ἐκκλησίας διδάσκαλοι, μεγαλοφώνως τήν τε διαφοράν καί τήν ἕνωσιν καθ᾿ ἑκατέρας αὐτῆς ἐδογμάτισαν· τήν μέν, ἐν τῷ φυσικῷ λόγῳ πραγματικῶς καί τελείως συντηρουμένην, τήν δέ πάλιν, ἐν τῶ οἰκονομικῷ τρόπῳ 15Α_110 παγίως καί ὑποστατικῶς σωζομένην, εἰς πίστωσιν τῶν ἐν τῷ ἑνί καί μόνῳ Χριστῷ τῷ Θεῷ καθ᾿ ἕνωσιν τήν ἀδιάσπαστον οὐσιωδῶς ὄντων πραγμάτων καί πάντων τῶν προσόντων αὐτοῖς φυσικῶν. Πάντες γάρ ὥσπερ ἄλλην καί ἄλλην, θείαν φημί καί ἀνθρωπίνην, καί διπλῆν φύσιν ἐπί τοῦ αὐτοῦ καί ἑνός ἐδογμάτισαν· οὕτως διαπρυσίως τοῦς πᾶσιν ἐκήρυξαν καί ἄλλο καί ἄλλο θέλημα, θεῖόν φημι καί ἀνθρώπινον, καί δύο θελήματα· καί ἄλλην καί ἄλλην ἐνέργειαν, θείαν τε καί ἀνθρωπίνην· καί διπλῆν αὖθις ἐνέργειαν, τουτέστι δύο. Οὕτω γάρ καί τῶν οὐσιῶν τήν ἐν ἀριθμῷ σημασίαν προδήλως ἐξεφώνησαν. Φαίνεται γάρ ὁ αὐτός ὡς ἄνθρωπος, καί τό κατά φύσιν ὑπάρχων Θεός, θέλων οἰκονομικῶς παρελθεῖν τό ποτήριον· καί μέχρι τούτου τυπῶν τό ἡμέτερον, ὡς Κύριλλος ἡμᾶς ὁ σοφός ἐξεπαίδευσεν· ἵνα τῆς ἡμῶν φύσεως πᾶσαν θανάτου συστολήν ἀπελάσῃ, καί πρός ὁρμήν ἀνδρικῶς τήν κατ' αὐτοῦ φημί τοῦ θανάτου, στομώσῃ τε καί διεγείρῃ. Φαίνεται δέ πάλιν ὡς Θεός, καίπερ ἄνθρωπος ὤν κατ'οὐσίαν, θέλων τήν οἰκονομίαν πατρικῶς ἐκπληρῶσαι, καί τήν πάντων ἡμῶν σωτηρίαν ἐργάσασθαι· δείκνυται δέ καί ὡς ἄνθρωπος, φύσει τυγχάνων Θεός, ἀνθρωπίνως ἐνεργῶν, καί τήν πεῖραν τῶν παθημάτων δι' ἡμᾶς ἑκουσίως δεχόμενος· δείκνυται δέ πάλιν ὡς Θεός, καί τό κατά φύσιν ἄνθρωπος ὤν, θεϊκῶς ἐνεργῶν, καί τάς θεοσημείας φυσικῶς προβαλλόμενος· ἐξ ὧν ὅτι καί Θεός ὁμοῦ καί ἄνθρωπος ἦν ὁ αὐτός ἐγνωρίζετο, ταῖς ἐξ ὧν καί ἐν αἷς ὑπῆρχεν οὐσίαις ἰσάριθμα τά θελήματα, καί τάς ἐνεργείας φυσικῶς κεκτημένος, εἰς βεβαίωσιν τῆς τῶν ἅπερ κυρίως ἦν τελείας ὑπάρξεως.

Εἰ δέ τις πρός τήν τούτων ἀθέτησιν ἀντιφατικῶς, τήν τε τοῦ θεοφάντορος ∆ιονυσίου θεανδρικήν ἐνέργειαν, καί τήν τοῦ σοφωτάτου Κυρίλλου συγγενῆ καί δι᾿ ἀμφοῖν ἐπιδεδειγμένην εἰς μέσον τῷ λόγῳ προΐσχεται, γινωσκέτω μηδεμίαν ἐντεῦθεν ἐρανισόμενος ἑαυτῷ κατά τῆς εὐσεβοῦς ὁμολογίας ἰσχύν. Ἡ μέν γάρ 15Α_112 θεανδρική προσφόρῳ φωνῇ πρός τοῦ διδασκάλου φρασθεῖσα, διπλῆν τοῦ διπλοῦ τήν φύσιν ἐνέργειαν 0085 περιφραστικῶς δηλονότι σημαίνει. Θείαν γάρ καί ἀνδρικήν, ἤγουν ἀνθρωπίνην, διά τῆς κατά τήν ἐκφοράν συναφείας προδήλως ἐκήρυξεν· ἀλλ᾿ οὐχ ἁπλῶς· ὅθεν οὐδέ δι᾿ ἀριθμοῦ ταύτην ὠνόμασεν, εἰ καί μοναδικῶς τήν τῶν φυσικῶν ἐνεργειῶν ἕνωσιν ἐπισημαίνων, ταύτην ἐδίδαξεν· ἥτις οὐ λυμαίνεται τῇ φυσικῇ τούτων διαφορᾷ· καθάπερ οὐδ᾿ αὐτῇ τῇ τῶν οὐσιῶν, ἡ τούτων ἀδιάσπαστος ἕνωσις· ἐπειδή κατά τούς λέγοντας, Εἰ μίαν εἶχεν ἐνέργειαν, καί ταύτην θεανδρικήν· εἰ μέν φυσικήν μίαν ὁ σαρκωθείς Λόγος ἐκέκτητο ταύτην,