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salvation, he himself being mediator in the mystery itself, through which he mediated for God and men, being one, the combination of both, from the natures united for this very purpose, being one and the same through each nature, yet in such a way that in each he lacks neither, lest he cease to be God in being born man, or again not be man by remaining God. Therefore this is the blessedness of the true faith among men, to proclaim him God and man, and to confess him flesh and Word, and to know God, that he was also man, and not to be ignorant of the flesh, that it is also Word. From the same, in the same discourse. Therefore the only-begotten God, born as a man from a virgin, and at the fullness of time being about to work out for himself the man's advancement to God, kept this order in all the evangelical words, so that he might teach to be believed that he is also the Son of God, and might remind that he is to be proclaimed the Son of Man; by being man, speaking all and doing all things that are of God; and again by being God, both speaking all and doing all things that are 179 of man; yet in such a way, that in this very communication of one nature with the other he would never speak, except by signifying both God and man. Hence, therefore, a pretext arises for the heretics to deceive the more simple and the ignorant, so that they falsely say that the things spoken by him according to his humanity were said according to the weakness of the divine nature, and since he is one and the same who speaks all that he did speak, they contend that he said all things about himself. And we do not deny that all his words are of his own nature. But if Christ is one, man and God, and the man was not then first God, nor indeed when he was man was he not also God, nor after the assumption of man was the Word in the Lord not man and the Word God, it is necessary that the mystery of his words be one and the same, which is also that of his birth. And when you divide in him at times the man from God, then separate the sayings of God and of man. And whenever you confess him God and man, at the right time distinguish the sayings of God and of man. But when you consider the time of him from God and man, and again wholly man and wholly God, if anything of the sort has been spoken to indicate what pertains to that time, fit the things said to the time. And since God before the man is one thing, and again man and God is another, and another after the man and God, whole man and whole God, do not confuse the mystery of the economy by the things said and the things that have happened. For it is necessary according to the quality of the kinds and of the natures, that one kind of their discourse has taken place, not yet according to the mystery of the man having been born, and another while still approaching death, and another when already being eternal. Therefore, having shown all these things, that Christ Jesus, born as a man of our body, spoke according to the custom of our nature, by being God. For even if in his birth and in his passion and death he accomplished the acts of our nature, nevertheless he performed all these things by the power of his own nature. 180 From the same, in the same discourse. Do you see, then, how God and man are so confessed, that death is reckoned to the man, and the resurrection of the flesh to God? For understand the nature of God in the power of the resurrection, and you will recognize the economy according to man in his death. And since both things happened according to their proper natures, remember for me that one Christ Jesus, who is both. And I have briefly shown these things for this reason, that we may remember that each nature is to be understood in our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who was in the form of God took the form of a servant. Of the

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σωτηρίαν μεσίτης αὐτὸς ὑπάρχων ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ μυστηρίῳ, δι' οὗπερ θεῷ καὶ ἀνθρώποις ἐμεσίτευσεν, εἷς τυγχάνων τὸ συναμφότερον, ἐκ τῶν ἑνωθεισῶν εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο δὲ φύσεων ἓν καὶ ταὐτὸν δι' ἑκατέρας φύσεως ὤν, πλὴν οὕτως ὡς ἐν ἑκατέρῳ μηδετέρου χηρεύειν, μή πως παύσηται θεὸς εἶναι τικτόμενος ἄνθρωπος, ἢ πάλιν ἄνθρωπος οὐχὶ τῷ διαμένειν θεός. Οὐκοῦν τοῦτο τῆς ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἀληθοῦς πίστεως τὸ μακάριον, τὸ τὸν μὲν θεὸν καὶ ἄνθρωπον κηρύτ τειν, τὴν δὲ σάρκα καὶ λόγον ὁμολογεῖν, καὶ τὸν μὲν θεὸν εἰδέναι ὅτι καὶ ἄνθρωπος εἴη, καὶ τὴν σάρκα μὴ ἀγνοεῖν ὅτι καὶ λόγος ἐστίν. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ λόγῳ. Ἐκ παρθένου τοίνυν τεχθεὶς ἄνθρωπος ὁ μονογενὴς θεός, καὶ κατὰ τὴν συμπλήρωσιν τοῦ καιροῦ μέλλων αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ τὴν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου προκοπὴν εἰς θεὸν ἀπεργάζεσθαι, ταύτην τὴν τάξιν ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς εὐαγγελικοῖς λόγοις ἐφύλαξεν, ἵνα ἑαυτὸν καὶ υἱὸν εἶναι θεοῦ διδάξῃ πιστεύεσθαι, καὶ υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου ὑπομνήσῃ κηρύττεσθαι· τῷ μὲν ἄνθρωπος εἶναι λαλῶν ἅπαντα καὶ πράττων ἅπερ ἐστὶν θεοῦ· αὖθις δὲ τῷ θεὸς ὑπάρχειν, λαλῶν τε ἅπαντα καὶ πράττων ἅπερ ἐστὶν 179 ἀνθρώπου· οὕτω μέντοι, ὥστε ταύτῃ αὐτῇ τῇ καθ' ἕτερον γένος αὐτῶν ὁμιλίᾳ μηδὲ πώποτε λαλεῖν, εἰ μὴ μετὰ τοῦ σημαίνειν θεόν τε καὶ ἄνθρωπον. Ἐντεῦθεν τοιγαροῦν τοῦ δελεάζειν τοὺς ἁπλουστέρους καὶ τοὺς ἀγνοοῦντας τοῖς αἱρετικοῖς γίνεται πρόφασις, ὥστε τὰ παρ' ἐκείνου κατὰ τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα λαληθέντα ψευδομένους λέγειν ὡς κατ' ἀσθένειαν τῆς θείας εἴρηται φύσεως, καὶ ἐπειδήπερ ὁ εἷς καὶ αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ πάντα λαλῶν ὅσαπερ καὶ ἐλάλει, φιλονεικεῖν αὐτοὺς περὶ ἑαυτοῦ πάντα αὐτὸν εἰρηκέναι. Καὶ οὐδὲ ἡμεῖς ἀρνούμεθα πάντας τοὺς ὄντας αὐτοῦ λόγους τῆς ἰδίας αὐτοῦ φύσεως εἶναι. Ἀλλ' εἴπερ εἷς ὁ Χριστὸς ἄνθρωπος καὶ θεός, καὶ οὔτε ὁ ἄνθρωπος τότε πρῶτον θεός, οὔτε μὴν ὅτε ἄνθρωπος τότε οὐκ ἦν καὶ θεός, οὐδὲ μετὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐν τῷ κυρίῳ οὐχὶ ὁ λόγος ἄνθρωπος καὶ ὁ λόγος θεός, ἐπάναγκές ἐστιν ἓν καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ εἶναι μυστήριον τῶν αὐτοῦ λόγων, ὃ καὶ τοῦ τόκου καθέστηκε. Καὶ ὅταν ἐν αὐτῷ κατὰ καιρὸν τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ διαιρῇς, τότε τά τε τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου διαχώριζε ῥήματα. Καὶ ὁπηνίκα θεὸν καὶ ἄνθρωπον ὁμολογεῖς, ἐν καιρῷ τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπου διάκρινε ῥήματα. Ὅταν δὲ ἐκ θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπου, καὶ πάλιν ἀνθρώπου καθόλου καὶ καθόλου θεοῦ τὸν καιρὸν ἐννόει, εἴ τι τοιοῦτο λελάληται πρὸς τὸ μηνύεσθαι τὸ κατ' ἐκεῖνο καιροῦ, ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τὰ λεχθέντα προσάρμοσον. Καὶ ἐπειδήπερ ἄλλο ἐστὶ πρὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου θεός, ἄλλο δὲ πάλιν ἄνθρωπος καὶ θεός, καὶ ἄλλο μετὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ θεόν, ὅλος ἄνθρωπος καὶ ὅλος θεός, μὴ συγχέῃς τοῖς λεγομένοις καὶ τοῖς γεγονόσι τὸ τῆς οἰκονομίας μυστήριον. Ἀνάγκη γὰρ κατὰ τὴν ποιότητα τῶν γενῶν καὶ τῶν φύσεων, ἄλλην μὲν αὐτῶν γεγενῆσθαι τὴν ὁμιλίαν, μηδέπω κατὰ τὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τεχθέντος μυστήριον, ἄλλην δὲ ἔτι προσελαύνοντος τῷ θανάτῳ, καὶ ἄλλην ἤδη τυγχάνοντος αἰωνίου. ∆είξας τοίνυν ἅπαντα, ταῦτα μέν, ὡς Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς καὶ τεχθεὶς ἄνθρωπος σώματος ἡμετέρου, κατὰ τὴν συνή θειαν τῆς ἡμετέρας ἐλάλησε φύσεως, τῷ εἶναι θεός. Εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἐν τῷ τόκῳ καὶ ἐν τῷ πάθει καὶ τῷ θανάτῳ τὰς τῆς ἡμετέρας φύσεως πρά ξεις διήνυσεν, ὅμως ἅπαντα ταῦτα τῇ δυνάμει τῆς ἑαυτοῦ διεπράξατο φύσεως. 180 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ λόγῳ. Ὁρᾷς ἄρα οὕτω θεὸν καὶ ἄνθρωπον ὁμολογεῖσθαι, ὥστε τὸν μὲν θάνα τον τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ, τῷ δὲ θεῷ τῆς σαρκὸς λογίζεσθαι τὴν ἀνάστασιν; Τὴν μὲν γὰρ τοῦ θεοῦ φύσιν ἐν τῇ δυνάμει τῆς ἀναστάσεως νόει, τὴν δὲ κατὰ ἄνθρωπον οἰκονομίαν ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ ἐπιγνώσῃ. Καὶ ἐπειδήπερ ἑκάτερα ταῖς οἰκείαις γεγένηται φύσεσιν, ἕνα μοι Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐκεῖνον μνημόνευε, τὸν ὄντα ἀμφότερα. Ταῦτα δὲ τούτου χάριν διὰ βραχέων ὑπέδειξα, ἵνα ἑκατέραν φύσιν ἐν τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ νοεῖσθαι μνημονεύωμεν· ὁ γὰρ ὢν ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ ἔλαβε δούλου μορφήν. Τοῦ