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the passion and the resurrection, the divine apostle wrote the epistle to Timothy, in which he called the savior Christ a man. After the passion and the resurrection, speaking publicly in Athens, he called him a man. After the passion and the resurrection, writing to the Corinthians he cries out: "For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead." And teaching more clearly about whom he is speaking, he added: "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." After the passion and the resurrection, the divine Peter, discoursing with the Jews, called him a man. After the ascension into heaven, the gloriously triumphant Stephen, while being stoned, said to the Jews: "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God." Let us not then consider ourselves wiser than the great heralds of the truth. {ERAN.} I have not supposed myself wiser than the holy teachers, but I do not find the need for the name. {ORTH.} Those then who deny the Lord's humanity, I mean the Marcionites, and Manichaeans, and the others, as many as are sick with this disease, how would you persuade them to confess the preaching of the truth? not by offering these and similar testimonies, and teaching that the Lord Christ is not only God, but also man? {ERAN.} Perhaps it is necessary to offer these things to them. {ORTH.} But why indeed do you not teach the faithful the truth of the dogma 129? Or have you forgotten the apostolic legislation, which commands us to be ready to make a defense? Let us consider it this way. Does the best general engage only the enemy, and shoot arrows, and hurl javelins, and break the phalanx, or does he also arm and arrange the soldiers and sharpen their minds for courage? {ERAN.} He should rather do the latter. {ORTH.} For it is not characteristic of a general to face danger and be drawn up for battle himself, but to let the soldiers sleep on both their ears, but rather to rouse them also for the battle line. {ERAN.} True. {ORTH.} This is what the divine Paul also does. For writing to the faithful he said: "Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." And again: "Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth," and what follows. But remember what we also said before, that the physician also adds the quality that is lacking in the constitution. For if he finds the cold quality to be in excess, he adds the hot, and likewise the others; this the Lord also did. {ERAN.} And where will you show the Lord to have done this? {ORTH.} In the divine gospels. {ERAN.} Show me then, and fulfill your promise. {ORTH.} What did the Jews think the savior Christ was? {ERAN.} A man. {ORTH.} But that he was also God, they were completely ignorant? {ERAN.} True. {ORTH.} Therefore, was it necessary for the ignorant to learn this? {ERAN.} It is agreed. {ORTH.} Listen then to him saying to them: "Many good works I have shown you from my Father; for which of those do you stone me?" And when they said, "For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God," he added: "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?' If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken— 130 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me. But if I do them, even though you do not want to believe me, believe my works, that you may know and believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me." {ERAN.} In what you just read, you showed that the Lord showed himself to the Jews as God, not man. {ORTH.} For they did not need to learn what they knew. For that he was a man, they knew; but that he was also God, they did not know. This very same thing also

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πάθος καὶ τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἔγραψε Τιμοθέῳ τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ὁ θεῖος ἀπόστολος, ἐν ᾗ τὸν σωτῆρα Χριστὸν προση γόρευσεν ἄνθρωπον. Μετὰ τὸ πάθος καὶ τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἐν Ἀθήναις δημηγορῶν ἄνδρα κέκληκε. Μετὰ τὸ πάθος καὶ τὴν ἀνάστασιν Κορινθίοις γράφων βοᾷ· "Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ δι' ἀνθρώπου θάνατος, καὶ δι' ἀνθρώπου ἀνάστασις τῶν νεκρῶν." Καὶ διδάσκων σαφέστερον περὶ τίνος λέγει, ἐπήγαγεν· "Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐν τῷ Ἀδὰμ πάντες ἀποθνήσκουσιν, οὕτω καὶ ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ πάντες ζωοποιηθήσονται." Μετὰ τὸ πάθος καὶ τὴν ἀνάστασιν ὁ θεῖος Πέτρος Ἰουδαίοις διαλεγόμενος ἄνδρα αὐτὸν προσηγόρευσε. Μετὰ τὴν εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀνάληψιν ὁ καλλίνικος Στέφανος καταλευόμενος ἔφη τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις· "Ἰδοὺ θεωρῶ τοὺς οὐρανοὺς ἀνεῳγμένους, καὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἑστῶτα ἐκ δεξιῶν τοῦ θεοῦ." Μὴ τοίνυν ἡμᾶς αὐτοὺς σοφωτέρους νομίσωμεν τῶν μεγάλων κηρύκων τῆς ἀληθείας. {ΕΡΑΝ.} Οὐ σοφώτερον ἐμαυτὸν τῶν ἁγίων διδασκάλων ὑπείληφα, ἀλλ' οὐχ εὑρίσκω τὴν τοῦ ὀνόματος χρείαν. {ΟΡΘ.} Τοὺς οὖν ἀρνουμένους τοῦ κυρίου τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα, Μαρκιωνιστάς φημι, καὶ Μανιχαίους, καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους, ὅσοι ταύτην νοσοῦσι τὴν νόσον, πῶς ἂν πείσαις ὁμολογῆσαι τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ κήρυγμα; οὐ ταύτας καὶ τὰς τοιαύτας μαρτυρίας προσφέρων, καὶ διδάσκων ὡς οὐ μόνον θεός, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄνθρωπος ὁ δεσπότης Χριστός; {ΕΡΑΝ.} Ἴσως τούτοις ἀνάγκη ταῦτα προσφέρειν. {ΟΡΘ.} Τοὺς δέ γε πιστοὺς τί δήποτε μὴ διδάσκεις τοῦ δόγματος 129 τὴν ἀλήθειαν; ἢ ἐπιλέλησαι τῆς ἀποστολικῆς νομοθεσίας, ἕτοιμον εἶναι πρὸς ἀπολογίαν παρεγγυώσης; Σκοπήσωμεν δὲ οὕτως. Ὁ ἄριστος στρατηγὸς μόνοις τοῖς πολεμίοις συμπλέκεται καὶ τοξεύει καὶ ἀκοντίζει καὶ φάλαγγα ῥήγνυσιν, ἢ καὶ τοὺς στρατιώτας καθοπλίζει καὶ τάττει καὶ εἰς ἀνδρείαν τὰ τούτων παραθήγει φρονήματα; {ΕΡΑΝ.} Τοῦτο μᾶλλον ποιητέον αὐτῷ. {ΟΡΘ.} Οὐ γὰρ ἴδιον στρατηγοῦ, τὸ αὐτὸν μὲν προκινδυνεύειν καὶ παρατάττεσθαι, τοὺς δὲ στρατιώτας ἐπ' ἄμφω καθεύδειν ἐᾶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτους διεγείρειν εἰς τὴν παράταξιν. {ΕΡΑΝ.} Ἀληθές. {ΟΡΘ.} Τοῦτο καὶ ὁ θεῖος ποιεῖ Παῦλος. Τοῖς γὰρ πεπιστευκόσιν ἐπιστέλλων ἔλεγεν· "Ἀναλάβετε τὴν πανοπλίαν τοῦ θεοῦ, ἵνα δυνη θῆτε ἀντιστῆναι πρὸς τὰς μεθοδείας τοῦ διαβόλου." Καὶ πάλιν· "Στῆτε οὖν περιζωσάμενοι τὰς ὀσφύας ὑμῶν ἐν ἀληθείᾳ," καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Ἀναμνήσθητι δὲ ἃ καὶ ἔμπροσθεν εἰρήκαμεν, ὅτι καὶ ὁ ἰατρὸς προστίθησι τὴν ἐλλείπουσαν τῇ φύσει ποιότητα. Εἰ γὰρ εὕροι πλεονά ζουσαν τὴν ψυχράν, προστίθησι τὴν θερμήν, καὶ ὡσαύτως τὰς ἄλλας· τοῦτο καὶ ὁ κύριος ἐποίησεν. {ΕΡΑΝ.} Καὶ ποῦ τοῦτο δείξεις πεποιηκότα τὸν κύριον; {ΟΡΘ.} Ἐν τοῖς θείοις εὐαγγελίοις. {ΕΡΑΝ.} ∆εῖξον οὖν, καὶ πλήρωσον τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν. {ΟΡΘ.} Τί τὸν σωτῆρα Χριστὸν ἐνόμιζον οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι; {ΕΡΑΝ.} Ἄνθρωπον. {ΟΡΘ.} Ὅτι δὲ καὶ θεὸς ἦν, παντάπασιν ἠγνόουν; {ΕΡΑΝ.} Ἀληθές. {ΟΡΘ.} Τοιγάρτοι τοῦτο μαθεῖν τοὺς ἀγνοοῦντας ἐχρῆν; {ΕΡΑΝ.} Ὡμολόγηται. {ΟΡΘ.} Ἄκουσον τοίνυν αὐτοῦ πρὸς αὐτοὺς λέγοντος· "Πολλὰ ἔργα ὑπέδειξα ὑμῖν παρὰ τοῦ πατρός μου, διὰ ποῖον αὐτῶν λιθάζετέ με;" Τῶν δὲ εἰρηκότων, "Περὶ καλοῦ ἔργου οὐ λιθάζομέν σε, ἀλλὰ περὶ βλασφημίας, ὅτι ἄνθρωπος ὢν ποιεῖς σεαυτὸν θεόν," ἐπήγαγεν· " ̓Εν τῷ νόμῳ ὑμῶν γέγραπται· Ἐγὼ εἶπον· θεοί ἐστε. Εἰ ἐκείνους εἶπε θεούς, πρὸς οὓς ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ οὐ δύναται λυθῆναι 130 ἡ γραφή, ὃν ὁ πατὴρ ἡγίασε καὶ ἀπέστειλεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον, ὑμεῖς λέγετε, ὅτι Βλασφημεῖς, ὅτι εἶπον· υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ εἰμι; Εἰ οὐ ποιῶ τὰ ἔργα τοῦ πατρός μου, μὴ πιστεύετέ μοι. Εἰ δὲ ποιῶ, κἂν ἐμοὶ μὴ θέλητε πιστεύειν, τοῖς ἔργοις μου πιστεύσατε, ἵνα γνῶτε καὶ πιστεύ σητε, ὅτι ἐγὼ ἐν τῷ πατρί, καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἐν ἐμοί ἐστιν." {ΕΡΑΝ.} Ἐν οἷς ἀνέγνως ἀρτίως, ἔδειξας τὸν κύριον τοῖς Ἰου-δαίοις θεὸν ἑαυτὸν οὐκ ἄνθρωπον δείξαντα. {ΟΡΘ.} Οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐδέοντο μαθεῖν ὅπερ ᾔδεισαν. Ὅτι μὲν γὰρ ἄνθρω πος ἦν, ᾔδεισαν· ὅτι δὲ καὶ θεὸς ὑπῆρχεν, οὐκ ᾔδεισαν. Ταὐτὸ δὲ τοῦτο καὶ