[ Katapetasma ]

 "AS Aaron did not change," says Athanasius, Orat. ii. 8, "by putting on his High-priest's dress, so that, had any one said, 'Lo, Aaron has this day become High-priest,' he had not implied that he then had been born man, ... so in the Lord's instance the words, 'He became' and 'He was made' must not be understood of the Word, considered as the Word," etc. etc.

 This is one of those protests by anticipation against Nestorianism, which in consequence may be abused to the purposes of the opposite heresy. Such expressions as [ peritithemenos ten estheta, ekalupteto, endusamenos soma ], were familiar with the Apollinarians, against whom S. Athanasius is, if possible, even more decided. Theodoret objects, Hær. v. 11, p. 422, to the word [ prokalumma ], when applied to our Lord's manhood, as implying that He had no soul; vid. also Naz. Ep. 102 fin. (ed. 1840). In Naz. Ep. 101, p. 90, [ parapetasma ] is used to denote an Apollinarian idea. Such expressions were taken to imply that Christ was not in nature man, only in some sense human ; not a substance, but an appearance; yet S. Athan. (if Athan.) contr. Sabell. Greg. 4, has [ parapepetasmenen ], and [ kalumma ], ibid. init.; S. Cyril Hieros. [ katapetasma ], Catech. xii. 26, xiii. 32. after Hebr. x. 20, and Athan. ad Adelph. 5; Theodor. [ parapetasma ], Eran. 1, p. 22, and [ prokalumma ], ibid. p. 23, and adv. Gent. vi. p. 877; and [ stole ], Eran. 1. c. S. Leo has "caro Christi velamen," Ep. 59, p. 979. vid. also Serm. 22, p. 70; Serm. 25, p. 84.