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We become like you, gods seeing God. Who then will not run to you, the only lover of mankind, who will not follow you, who will not say out of longing: Behold, having cast away all things, we will follow you, the sympathetic, the gentle, the compassionate Master, who always awaits our return, (89) who does not desire the death of those who have offended you, who now accomplishes awesome things in us, which we once marveled at, hearing that they had happened long ago in the house of David. But what could these be? We are the house of David, as his kinsmen, for you yourself, the creator of all things, became his son, and we are your sons by grace; you are our kinsman in the flesh, we in your divinity. For having taken on flesh, you have given us your Divine Spirit, and we have all become one house of David, together, by your own property, by kinship with you. You, then, are the Lord of David, in spirit, and we are the children of David, all your divine seed; and when we are gathered together we become one house, that is, all kinsmen, all your brothers. And how is this not an awesome wonder, or how will not everyone shudder, who considers this at all, who understands this, that you are with us now and unto the ages and you make each one a house and you dwell in all and you become a house for all, and in you we dwell, each one of us, O Savior, wholly with you who are wholly present, and you being alone with each one alone and you exist alone, wholly above us? Now therefore you exist, doing all awesome things in us. What awesome things? Hear a few of the many; for even if the things we have said are all beyond astonishment, yet now hear things more awesome than those! We become members of Christ, and Christ becomes our members, and Christ is the hand and Christ is the foot of me, the all-wretched one, and I, the wretched one, am the hand of Christ and the foot of Christ. I move my hand, and my hand is Christ. (90) For conceive for me the divine divinity as indivisible! - I move my foot and, behold, it shines like him; do not say that I blaspheme, but accept these things and worship Christ who makes you such! For if you too should wish, you will become a member of him, and thus all the members of each one of us will become members of Christ, and Christ our members, and he will make all the unseemly parts seemly, adorning them with the beauty and glory of divinity, and we shall become gods together, being with God, not seeing the unseemliness of the body at all, but wholly conformed to Christ in our whole body,

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ὅμοιοί σοι γινόμεθα, θεοί Θεόν ὁρῶντες. Τίς οὖν οὐ προσδραμεῖταί σοι, τῷ μόνῳ φιλανθρώπῳ, τίς οὐκ ἀκολουθήσει σοι, τίς οὐκ ἐκ πόθου φράσει˙ Ἰδού, τά πάντα ῥίψαντες ἀκολουθήσομέν σοι, τῷ συμπαθεῖ, τῷ προσινεῖ, τῷ εὐσπλάγχνῳ ∆εσπότη, τῷ τήν ἡμῶν ἐπιστροφήν ἀεί ἐκδεχομένῳ, (89) τῷ θανάτῳ μή θέλοντι τῶν σοί προσκεκρουκότων, τῷ ἐν ἡμῖν τά φοβερά νῦν τελεσιουργοῦντι, ἅπερ ποτέ ἀκούοντες ἐν οἴκῳ ∆αυίδ πάλαι γενόμενα θαυμάζομεν. Τά δ᾿ ἄν καί εἴεν ταῦτα˙ οἶκος ∆αυίδ ἡμεῖς ἐσμέν ὡς συγγενεῖς ἐκείνου, καί γάρ αὐτός σύ γέγονας, ὁ τῶν ἁπάντων κτίστης, υἱός ἐκείνου, καί ἡμεῖς υἱοί σου κατά χάριν˙ σύ συγγενής ἡμῶν σαρκί, ἡμεῖς θεότητί σου. Λαβών γάρ σάρκα δέδωκας ἡμῖν Πνεῦμα σου Θεῖον, καί οἶκος εἷς γεγόναμεν ∆αυίδ, οἱ πάντες ἅμα, τῇ ἰδιότητι τῇ σῇ, τῇ πρός σε συγγενείᾳ. Κύριος οὖν σύ τοῦ ∆αυίδ, ἐν πνεύματι τυγχάνεις, ἡμεῖς δέ τέκνα τοῦ ∆αυίδ, σπέρμα θεῖόν σου πάντες˙ συναγομένων τε ἡμῶν εἷς γινόμεθα οἶκος, τουτέστι πάντες συγγενεῖς, ἀδελφοί σου οἱ πάντες. Καί πῶς οὐ θαῦμα φοβερόν, ἤ πῶς οὐ φρίξει πᾶς τις, ὁ τοῦτο ὅλως ἐννοῶν, τοῦτο καταμανθάνων, ὅτι ὑπάρχεις μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν νῦν καί εἰς τούς αἰῶνας καί οἶκον ἕκαστον ποιεῖς καί ἐνοικεῖς εἰς πάντας καί οἶκος πᾶσι γίνῃ σύ, καί ἐν σοί ἐνοικοῦμεν, εἷς, Σῶτερ, ἕκαστος ἡμῶν μετά σοῦ ὅλος ὅλου, καί μεθ᾿ ἑνός ἑκάστου σύ μόνου μόνος τυγχάνων καί ὑπεράνωθεν ἡμῶν μόνος ὅλος ὑπάρχεις; Νῦν οὖν ὑπάρχεις τά φρικτά ἐν ἡμῖν πάντα πράσσων. Ποῖα φρικτά; Ἀκούσατε ἐκ τῶν πολλῶν ὀλίγα˙ εἰ γάρ καί, ἅ εἰρήκαμεν, ὑπέρ ἔκπληξιν πάντα, ἀλλ᾿ ὅμως ἄρτι ἄκουε φρικτότερα ἐκείνων! Μέλη Χριστοῦ γινόμεθα, μέλη Χριστός ἡμῶν δέ, καί χείρ Χριστός καί ποῦς Χτιστός ἐμοῦ τοῦ παναθλίου, καί χείρ Χριστοῦ καί ποῦς Χριστοῦ ὁ ἄθλιος ἐγώ δέ. Κινῶ τήν χεῖρα, καί Χριστός ἡ χείρ μου ἔστιν. (90) Ἀμέριστον γάρ νόει μ οι θεότητα τήν θείαν! - Κινῶ τόν πόδα καί, ἰδού, ἀστράπτει ὡς ἐκεῖνος˙ μή εἴπῃς, ὅτι βλασφημῶ, ἀλλ᾿ ἀπόδεξαι ταῦτα καί τῷ Χριστῷ προσκύνησον τοιοῦτόν σε ποιοῦντι! Εἰ γάρ καί σύ θελήσειας, μέλος αὐτοῦ γενήσῃ, καί οὕτω μέλη ἅπαντα ἑνός ἡμῶν ἑκάστου μέλη Χριστοῦ γενήσονται, καί Χριστός ἡμῶν μέλη, καί πάντα τά ἀσχήμονα εὐσχήμονα ποιήσει κάλλει θεότητος αὐτά κατακοσμῶν καί δόξῃ, καί γενησόμεθα ὁμοῦ θεοί Θεῷ συνόντες, ἀσχημοσύνην σώματος ὅλως μή καθορῶντες, ἀλλ᾿ ὅλοι ὅλῳ σώματι Χριστῷ ὁμοιωθέντες,