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If one natural energy is toward two, how will it be divided? And by what logic will the one energy at the same time constitute and distinguish the different substances, making each one have essential identity with things of the same kind, and again essential difference with things of a different kind. And I pass over saying how he has fallen away from the natural kinship with the Father and with us, as neither He entirely, nor we, possess a theandric, innate, and essential energy. But if again a hypostatic one, in addition to the new doctrine; for who is it that says an energy exists hypostatically? And thus such a statement shows him to be alien to the Father in energy, if indeed he has a hypostatic, and not a natural, energy distinct from the Father. For by the hypostatic properties, the Word clearly possesses his difference with respect to him.

And the "one kindred energy, shown forth through both," again, according to the renowned Cyril, was not said for the abolition of the essential difference of the natural energies—of those from which and in which the one and only Christ, our God, exists—but was said by the teacher for the constitution of their extreme union. And it seems somehow, through other expressions, to imitate Dionysius the revealer of God. For so that this one might be seen not as a bare God, nor again as a mere man; nor as God operating separately and incorporeally, nor as a man 15Α_114 doing things according to his own will; but as God incarnate and perfectly become man for us, the same one operating both divinely and humanly, he taught that not by word only, and by god-befitting commands, is the Savior found active in raising the dead and healing every disease and every infirmity; but that he hastened to take his holy flesh as a sort of co-worker for this very purpose; doing this, on the one hand, as God by his all-creating command; but on the other hand, giving life again also by the touch of his holy flesh united to him hypostatically, in order to show that this too could give life through his essential energy, of which the touch, the voice, and all such things, properly are. Then, as he showed his natural energies, of Christ our God who is composed of both, perfectly preserved; that of his divinity, through the all-creating 0088 command, and that of his humanity, through the touch; he presented these as wholly united by their co-inherence and perichoresis with each other; so that the energy is shown as one because of the union of the Word himself and his all-holy flesh; not a natural one, not a hypostatic one; for the teacher said nothing of the sort; but kindred to the parts; through which, as has been said, it was demonstrated both by an all-creating command and by the touch of a hand.

It has been shown, therefore, of the sacred teaching of the wise teacher, that he proclaims the difference of the natural energies, just as of the very natures of which they are, is preserved also after the union; and he defines the union itself again; the former, in speaking of an all-creating command and a touch; the latter, in speaking of one and kindred; by which he magnificently rejects every contraction and division of the mystery of Christ; but those who do not understand it thus, but conceive the kindred energy of the Word and the flesh as one, dogmatize the co-essentiality of Eutyches and Apollinaris. Therefore, it is necessary in all things both to preserve the doctrine unharmed 15Α_116 and to maintain the mode of the economy incorrupt; so that the wicked pair, I mean division and confusion, may have no entry against the truth.

According to this, therefore, and other monadic expressions of the holy Fathers, if they should be found, the pious meaning must be understood; and let us in no way interpret these in contradiction to the dyadic expressions of the saints; knowing that these are strong for the difference against confusion, and those for the union against division

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πρός δύο ἡ μία κατά φύσιν ἐνέργεια, πῶς μερισθήσεται; καί ποίῳ λόγῳ τάς διαφόρους οὐσίας ἡ μία κατά τό αὐτό συστήσει καί ἀφορίσει ἐνέργεια; πρός τε τά ὁμογενῆ τήν κατ' οὐσίαν ἀπαραλλαξίαν ἔχειν ἑκατέραν ποιοῦσα, καί πρός τά ἑτερογενῆ πάλιν τήν κατ᾿ οὐσίαν διαφοράν. Καί παρῶ λέγειν, ὡς τῆς πρός τόν Πατέρα καί ἡμᾶς φυσικῆς συγγενείας ἐκπέπτωκεν, ὡς μήτε παντελῶς ἐκείνου, μήτε ἡμῶν θεανδρική τήν ἔμφυτον καί οὐσιώδη κεκτημένων ἐνέργειαν. Εἰ δέ γε πάλιν ὑποστατικήν, πρός τῇ καινῇ δόξῃ· τίς γάρ ὁ λέγων ὑποστατικήν ὑπάρχειν ἐνέργειαν. Καί οὕτως ἀλλότριον τοῦ Πατρός κατ' ἐνέργειαν αὐτόν ὁ τοιοῦτος ἀποφαίνει λόγος, εἴπερ ὑποστατικήν, καί οὐ φυσικήν ἔχει παρά τόν Πατέρα ἐνέργειαν. Τοῖς γάρ ὑποστατικοῖς ἰδιώμασι, τήν πρός αὐτό κέκτηται διαφοράν προδήλως ὁ Λόγος.

Καί ἡ "συγγενής δέ καί δι᾿ ἀμφοῖν ἐπιδεδειγμένη μία" πάλιν "ἐνέργεια», κατά τόν ἀοίδιμον Κύριλλον, οὐκ ἐπ᾿ ἀναιρέσει τῆς τῶν κατά φύσιν ἐνεργειῶν οὐσιώδους διαφορᾶς· τῶν ἐξ ὧν καί ἐν αἷς ὑπάρχει ὁ εἷς καί μόνος Χριστός ὁ Θεός· ἀλλ᾿ ἐπί συστάσει τῆς ἄκρας τούτων ἑνώσεως εἴρηται τῷ διδασκάλῳ. Καί ἔοικέ πως δι᾿ ἄλλων φωνῶν, τόν θεοφάντορα ∆ιονύσιον ἐκμιμεῖσθαι. Ἵνα γάρ δόξῃ μή γυμνόν ὄντα τοῦτον Θεόν, μήτε ψιλόν αὖθις ἄνθρωπον· μήτε ἰδίᾳ Θεόν ἀσωμάτως ἐνεργοῦντα, μήτε ἰδίᾳ ἄνθρωπον 15Α_114 τά κατά γνώμην πράττοντα· ἀλλά Θεόν σεσαρκωμένον καί τελείως δι᾿ ἡμᾶς ἐνανθρωπήσαντα, θεϊκῶς ἅμα καί ἀνθρωπικῶς τόν αὐτόν ἐνεργοῦντα, ἔφυσεν, ὡς οὐ λόγῳ μόνον, καί τοῖς θεοπρεπέσιν ἐπιτάγμασιν, ἐνεργός εὑρίσκεται ὁ Σωτήρ ἐν τῷ τούς νεκρούς διανιστᾷν καί θεραπεύειν πᾶσαν νόσον καί πᾶσαν μαλακίαν· ἀλλά συνεργάτιν ὥσπερ τινά πρός τοῦτο δή μάλιστα τήν ἁγίαν αὐτοῦ παραλαμβάνειν ἠπείγετο σάρκα· τοῦτο ποιῶν μέν ὡς Θεός τῷ παντουρῷ αὐτοῦ προστάγματι· ζωοποιῶν δέ αὖ πάλιν καί τῇ ἀφῇ τῆς ἡνωμένης αὐτῷ καθ' ὑπόστασιν ἁγίας σαρκός, ἵνα δείξῃ καί ταύτην ζωοποιεῖν δυναμένην διά τῆς οὐσιώδους αὐτοῦ ἐνεργείας, ἧς ἐστι κυρίως ἡ ἀφή, ἡ φωνή, καί ὅσα τοιαῦτα. Εἶτα, ὡς ἔδειξε τάς φυσικάς ἐνεργείας αὐτοῦ, τοῦ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν συγκειμένου Χριστοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ, σωζομένας τελείως· τήν τῆς θεότητος αὐτοῦ, διά τοῦ παντουργοῦ 0088 προστάγματος, τήν δέ τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος αὐτοῦ, διά τῆς ἀφῆς· παρέστησε ταύτας ἡνωμένας διόλου τῇ πρός ἀλλήλας συμφυΐᾳ καί περιχωρήσει· ὡς μίαν διά τήν ἕνωσιν αὐτοῦ τε τοῦ Λόγου καί παναγίας αὐτοῦ σαρκός δείκνυσθαι τήν ἐνέργειαν· οὐ φυσικήν, οὐχ ὑποστατικήν· οὐ γάρ τι τοιοῦτον εἴρηκεν ὁ διδάσκαλος· ἀλλά συγγενῆ τοῖς μέρεσι· δι᾿ ὧν, ὡς εἴρηται, κατά τε πρόσταγμα παντουργόν, κατά τε ἀφήν χειρός ἐπεδείκνυτο.

∆έδεικται τοίνυν τῆς ἱερᾶς τοῦ σοφοῦ διδασκαλίας, ὡς καί τήν διαφοράν τῶν φυσικῶν ἐνεργειῶν, ὥσπερ οὖν καὐτῶν τῶν φύσεων ὧν καί εἰσί, διαγορεύει φυλαττομένην καί μετά τήν ἕνωσιν· καὐτήν τήν ἕνωσιν αὖθις ὁρίζεται· τήν μέν, ἐν τῷ λέγειν, πρόσταγμα παντουργόν καί ἀφήν· τήν δέ, τῷ λέγειν, μίαν τε καί συγγενῆ· δι' ὧν πᾶσαν συναίρεσίν τε καί διαίρεσιν τοῦ κατά Χριστόν μυστηρίου μεγαλοφυῶς ἀποπέμπεται· οἱ δέ μή οὕτω λαμβάνοντες, ἀλλ᾿ ὡς μίαν Λόγου τε καί σαρκός τήν συγγενῆ νοοῦντες ἐνέργειαν, τήν Εὐτυχοῦς καί Ἀπολιναρίου συνουσίωσιν δογματίζουσι. ∆εῖ τοιγαροῦν ἐν πᾶσι καί τόν λόγον ἀλώβητον 15Α_116 διασώζειν, καί τόν τῆς οἰκονομίας τρόπον διατηρεῖν ἀπαράφθαρτον· ἵνα μηδεμίαν ἡ πονηρά ξυνωρίς, ἡ διαίρεσις, φημί, καί ἡ σύγχυσις, κατά τῆς ἀληθείας σχοίη παρείσδυσιν.

Κατά ταύτην οὖν, καί τά ἄλλας, εἴπερ εὑρεθεῖεν, μοναδικάς τῶν ἁγίων Πατέρων φωνάς, τήν εὐσεβῆ διάνοιαν ἐκληπτέον· καί μηδαμῶς εἰς ἀντίφασιν ταύτας, πρός τάς τῶν ἁγίων δυϊκάς ἐκδεξώμεθα· γινώσκοντες, ὡς καί αὗται πρός τήν διαφοράν κατά τῆς συγχύσεως ἰσχυραί κἀκεῖναι πρός τήν ἕνωσιν κατά δαιρέσεως