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in 92.8 immortality, or rather, being wholly immortality. For he himself said, "I am the life". * Nor is our hope through the flesh. "Cursed, it says, is he who hopes in man. And he will be like the wild tamarisk." 93.1 What then shall we say? Is Christ not a man? From what has been said before, it is clear to anyone that we undoubtedly confess the Lord God the Word to have become man, not in appearance, but in truth. 93.2 but not a man who came by an advance of divinity. For our hope of salvation is not in man; for none of all the men from Adam was able to work salvation, but God the Word having become man, so that our hope may not be in man, but in 93.3 a living and true God, who became man. "For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men" according to what is written. Whence the Lord, having come, took the flesh from our flesh, and God the Word became a man like us, so that in his divinity he might give us salvation and in his humanity he might suffer for us men, destroying suffering through suffering and 93.4 putting death to death by his own death. But the suffering was reckoned to the divinity, even though the divinity is impassible, the suffering being reckoned to the divinity, because the holy and 93.5 impassible God the Word was thus pleased to come. The example is something like this: as if someone were wearing a garment, and on the garment sprinkled blood defiles the garment, but the * body of the one wearing it was not reached, yet 93.6 the stain from the blood is reckoned to the one wearing the garment, so Christ suffered in the flesh, I mean in the Lord's man, whom the holy God the Word himself fashioned for himself, having come from heaven; as the holy Peter says, "put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit," and again, "Since therefore Christ suffered for us in the flesh, 93.7 you also arm yourselves with the same mind." Just as the blood on the garment is reckoned to the one wearing it, the suffering of the flesh was reckoned to him as to the divinity, though it suffered nothing, so that the world might not have its 93.8 hope in a man, but in the Lord's man, the divinity undertaking that the suffering be reckoned to it, so that the salvation from the impassible divinity might be on behalf of the world, so that the suffering which occurred in the flesh might be reckoned to the divinity, even though it suffered nothing, so that the scripture which says, "for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory," and the rest, might be fulfilled. 94.1 Therefore, the Lord was crucified, was crucified, and we worship the crucified one, the one buried and risen on the third day and ascended into heaven. "O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge 94.2 of God," according to what is written; "for we know in part and we prophesy in part," as if drawing a drop from the sea of the knowledge of God and comprehending an example of such an economy, the grace of our hope by the good pleasure of the Father, the will of the Son, with the will of the Holy Spirit, * of the same economy of God. 94.3 But all the scriptures contained the proclamation of the resurrection sporadically, but the perfection was reserved for the presence of the hypostatic Word himself. 94.4 "For Christ is the fulfillment of the law," according to what is written. For where did the divine scripture not speak about the resurrection? First the blood of Abel proclaims it; for after he died "he still speaks," as the scripture says. "Enoch was translated and was not found and did not see death; for he pleased God." Noah constructed an ark by God's command, working for himself 94.5 a new birth for his own house. Abraham, when old, receives

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ἐν 92.8 ἀθανασίᾳ, μᾶλλον δὲ ὅλος ὢν ἀθανασία. αὐτὸς γὰρ εἶπεν «ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ζωή». * οὔτε διὰ σαρκὸς ἡμῖν ἡ ἐλπίς. «ἐπικατάρατος, γάρ φησιν, ὁ ἐλπίζων ἐπ' ἄνθρωπον. καὶ ἔσται ὡς ἡ ἀγριομυρίκη.» 93.1 Τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν; οὐκ ἄνθρωπος ὁ Χριστός; ἐκ τῶν προλελεγμένων παντί τῳ δῆλόν ἐστιν ὅτι ἀναμφιβόλως ὁμολογοῦμεν τὸν κύριον θεὸν Λόγον ἄνθρωπον γεγόνοτα οὐ δοκήσει, ἀλλ' ἀληθείᾳ. 93.2 ἀλλ' οὐκ ἄνθρωπος ἐλθὼν ἐν προκοπῇ θεότητος. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐπ' ἀνθρώπῳ ἡμῖν ἡ ἐλπὶς τῆς σωτηρίας· οὐδεὶς γὰρ πάντων τῶν ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἀνθρώπων ἠδυνήθη ἐργάσασθαι τὴν σωτηρίαν, ἀλλὰ θεὸς Λόγος ἄνθρωπος γεγονώς, ἵνα μὴ ἡ ἐλπὶς ἡμῶν ᾖ ἐπ' ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ 93.3 θεὸν ζῶντα καὶ ἀληθινόν, γενόμενον ἄνθρωπον. «πᾶς γὰρ ἱερεὺς ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπων λαμβανόμενος ὑπὲρ ἀνθρώπων καθίσταται» κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον. ὅθεν ἀπὸ τῆς ἡμῶν σαρκὸς ἀνέλαβεν ὁ κύριος ἐλθὼν τὴν σάρκα καὶ ἄνθρωπος γέγονεν ἡμῖν ὅμοιος ὁ θεὸς Λόγος, ἵνα ἐν τῇ θεότητι δῴη ἡμῖν τὴν σωτηρίαν καὶ ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ ἀνθρωπότητι πάθῃ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, πάθος διὰ τοῦ πάθους λύσας καὶ 93.4 θάνατον διὰ θανάτου τοῦ ἰδίου θανατώσας. ἐλογίσθη δὲ τὸ πάθος εἰς τὴν θεότητα, καίτοι γε τῆς θεότητος ἀπαθοῦς οὔσης, λογιζομένου δὲ τοῦ πάθους τῇ θεότητι, ὅτι οὕτως εὐδόκησεν ἐλθὼν ὁ ἅγιος καὶ 93.5 ἀπαθὴς θεὸς Λόγος. ἔστι δὲ τὸ ὑπόδειγμα τοιόνδε τι· ὡς ἐάν τις ἱμάτιον ᾖ ἐνδεδυμένος, ἐν δὲ τῷ ἱματίῳ αἷμα ῥαντισθὲν μολύνῃ τὸ ἱμάτιον, τὸ δὲ * σῶμα οὐκ ἔφθασε τοῦ ἐνδεδυμένου, λογίζεται δὲ 93.6 ὁ σπῖλος ὁ ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος τῷ ἐνδεδυμένῳ τὸ ἱμάτιον, οὕτως ἐν τῇ σαρκὶ πέπονθεν ὁ Χριστός, ἐν αὐτῷ φημι τῷ κυριακῷ ἀνθρώπῳ, ὃν εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἀνεπλάσατο ἐλθὼν ἀπ' οὐρανῶν αὐτὸς ὁ ἅγιος θεὸς Λόγος· ὥς φησιν ὁ ἅγιος Πέτρος «θανατωθεὶς σαρκί, ζωοποιηθεὶς δὲ πνεύματι» καὶ πάλιν «Χριστοῦ οὖν παθόντος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν σαρκί, 93.7 καὶ ὑμεῖς τὴν αὐτὴν ἔννοιαν ὁπλίσασθε». καθὼς τὸ αἷμα ἐν ἱματίῳ λογίζεται τῷ φοροῦντι, ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ τὸ πάθος τῆς σαρκὸς εἰς θεότητα, μηδὲν αὐτῆς παθούσης, ἵνα μὴ εἰς ἄνθρωπον ἔχῃ ὁ κόσμος 93.8 τὴν ἐλπίδα, ἀλλ' ἐν τῷ κυριακῷ ἀνθρώπῳ, τῆς θεότητος ἀναδεχομένης λογισθῆναι εἰς αὐτὴν τὸ πάθος, ἵνα γένηται ὑπὲρ κόσμου ἡ ἀπὸ θεότητος ἀπαθοῦς σωτηρία, ἵνα τὸ ἐν σαρκὶ γενόμενον πάθος εἰς τὴν θεότητα λογισθῇ, καίτοι γε μηδὲν παθούσης αὐτῆς, ἵνα πληρωθῇ ἡ λέγουσα γραφή «εἰ γὰρ ἔγνωσαν, οὐκ ἂν τὸν κύριον τῆς δόξης ἐσταύρωσαν» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. 94.1 Ἐσταυρώθη οὖν, ἐσταυρώθη ὁ κύριος καὶ προσκυνοῦμεν τὸν ἐσταυρωμένον, τὸν ταφέντα καὶ ἀναστάντα τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ καὶ εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀνελθόντα. «ὦ βάθος πλούτου καὶ σοφίας καὶ γνώσεως 94.2 θεοῦ» κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον· «ἐκ μέρους γὰρ γινώσκομεν καὶ ἐκ μέρους προφητεύομεν», ὡς ῥανίδα ἀπὸ πελάγους ἀρυόμενοι τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ γνώσεως καὶ καταλαμβάνοντες τῆς τοιαύτης οἰκονομίας ὑπόδειγμα, τῆς ἡμῶν ἐλπίδος τὴν χάριν εὐδοκίᾳ πατρὸς θελήσει υἱοῦ σὺν θελήσει ἁγίου πνεύματος, * τῆς αὐτῆς θεοῦ οἰκονομίας. 94.3 εἶχον δὲ πᾶσαι αἱ γραφαὶ σποράδην τὸ κήρυγμα τῆς ἀναστάσεως, ἐτηρεῖτο δὲ τὸ τέλειον τῇ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐνυποστάτου Λόγου παρουσίᾳ. 94.4 «πλήρωμα γὰρ νόμου Χριστός» κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον. ποῦ γὰρ οὐκ ἔλεγε τὸ θεῖον γράμμα περὶ ἀναστάσεως; πρῶτον τὸ τοῦ Ἄβελ αἷμα κηρύττει· μετὰ γὰρ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν «ἔτι λαλεῖ», ὥς φησιν ἡ γραφή. «Ἐνὼχ μετετέθη καὶ οὐχ ηὑρίσκετο καὶ οὐκ εἶδε θάνατον· εὐηρέστησε γὰρ τῷ θεῷ». Νῶε κιβωτὸν κατεσκεύασεν ἐκ θεοῦ προστάγματος, ἑαυτῷ 94.5 παλιγγενεσίαν τῷ οἰκείῳ ἐργαζόμενος οἴκῳ. Ἀβραὰμ γηραλέος λαμβάνει