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apart from the body in which He became man, always and through all coming through the whole matter of the elements and of the bodies themselves, as being a certain creative Word of God, He seals the principles of the wisdom from Himself in it, to the lifeless, life, and to that which is formless and shapeless by nature, impressing form, and imprinting the beauties in it and the incorporeal ideas on the qualities of bodies, and moving the things lifeless and motionless according to their own principle, earth, water, air, fire, 4.13.3 a certain all-wise and all-harmonious motion, and ordering all things from disorder, both increasing and bringing to perfection, and by his divine and rational power, as it were, coming upon all things, and going through all things and touching all things, but in no way incurring harm from anything, nor defiling His own nature. So indeed, in accordance with these things, having also come among men, long ago to a few and countable number, that is, only to the prophets and righteous men who are recorded, he appeared at different times and in different ways, but at the end now to all, both to the wicked and the impious, to Hebrews and Greeks alike, through the exceeding goodness and love for mankind of the all-good Father He offered Himself as beneficent and saving, proclaiming this plainly: “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance”? 4.13.4 Indeed the Savior of all was calling: “Come,” saying, “to me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” He called and healed abundantly through the human instrument which He had put on, like a musician demonstrating his skill through the lyre, and to souls that were sick in bodies, like the best of physicians, he assisted man with a kindred and suitable remedy, and He presented Himself as an example of an all-wise, all-virtuous, and pious life, teaching true things not gleaned from others, but from Himself and from the Father the things legislated of old and from a long age for those from the beginning who were beloved of God and for the Hebrews before Moses; 4.13.5 caring for bodies no less than for souls, and preparing for men's fleshly eyes to see the things done by Him through the flesh, and again for ears of flesh sounding the teachings through a tongue and flesh, and accomplishing all things through the man He had assumed for those able to perceive His divinity in no other way than only in this one. 4.13.6 All these things, therefore, for what is useful and beneficial to us all, the all-loving Word of God ministered according to the Father's counsels, remaining Himself again immaterial and incorporeal, as He also was before with the Father, not having changed His substance, nor having vanished from His very own nature, nor indeed fettered by the bonds of the flesh, nor having fallen from His divinity, but not even having lost the proper power of the Word, nor making his sojourns here where his human vessel was, and being prevented from being in other parts of the universe; but indeed, even at that time, in which He lived as a citizen among men, He filled all things, and was with the Father, and was indeed in Him, and He took care of all things at once, both in heaven and on earth, even at that time, in no way being shut off from His omnipresence like us, nor hindered as is usual from doing divine things, but imparting from Himself to the man, and not receiving in return from the mortal, and supplying the divine power to the mortal, but not taking in return a share of the mortal. 4.13.7 Therefore, the incorporeal was not defiled by being born in the body, nor did the impassible suffer in His substance from the mortal, since not even if a lyre, as it might be, were struck, or its strings broken, is it likely that the one playing it suffers, nor indeed if the body of some wise man is punished, would we reasonably say that the wisdom in it or the soul in the body is struck or burned. For this reason, therefore, much more, not even to say that the nature or power of the Word suffers any harm from the passions of the body

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δίχα τοῦ καθ' ὃ ἐνηνθρώπει σώματος, ἀεὶ καὶ διὰ παντὸς ἥκων δι' ὅλης τῆς τῶν στοιχείων καὶ αὐτῶν δὴ τῶν σωμάτων ὕλης, οἷά τις θεοῦ λόγος ὢν δημιουργός, τῆς ἐξ αὐτοῦ σοφίας ἐν αὐτῇ τοὺς λόγους ἀποσφραγίζεται, τῷ μὲν ἀψύχῳ ζωὴν τῷ δὲ ἀμόρφῳ ὄντι καὶ ἀειδεῖ τὴν φύσιν μορφὴν ἐναποτυπούμενος, τά τ' ἐν αὐτῷ κάλλη καὶ τὰς ἀσωμάτους ἰδέας ταῖς τῶν σωμάτων ποιότησιν ἐναποματτόμενος, κινῶν δὲ τὰ τῷ οἰκείῳ λόγῳ ἄψυχα καὶ ἀκίνητα, γῆν, ὕδωρ, ἀέρα, πῦρ, 4.13.3 πάνσοφόν τινα καὶ παναρμόνιον κίνησιν, καὶ τὰ πάντα ἐξ ἀκοσμίας κοσμῶν, αὔξων τε καὶ τελεσιουργῶν, αὐτῇ τε ἐνθέῳ καὶ λογικῇ δυνάμει μονονουχὶ ἐπιὼν τὰ πάντα, καὶ διὰ πάντων χωρῶν πάντων τε ἐφαπτόμενος, ἀλλ' οὔτι γε βλάβην ἔκ τινος ἐπαγόμενος, οὐδὲ τὴν φύσιν αὐτὴν μολυνόμενος. οὕτω δῆτα κατὰ ταῦτα καὶ ἐν ἀνθρώποις γενόμενος, πάλαι μὲν βραχέσι καὶ ἀριθμῷ ληπτοῖς, μόνοις δὴ τοῖς ἀναγράπτοις προφήταις τε καὶ δικαίοις ἀνδράσιν, ἄλλοτε ἄλλως τε ἐφαίνετο, ἐπὶ τέλει δὲ τοῖς πᾶσιν ἤδη, φαύλοις τε καὶ ἀσεβέσιν, Ἑβραίοις τε ὁμοῦ καὶ Ἕλλησιν, δι' ὑπερβάλλουσαν τοῦ παναγάθου πατρὸς χρηστότητα καὶ φιλανθρωπίαν εὐεργετικὸν ἑαυτὸν καὶ σωτήριον παρείχετο, διαρρήδην τοῦτο προκηρύττων· «οὐ χρείαν ἔχουσιν οἱ ἰσχύοντες ἰατροῦ, ἀλλὰ οἱ κακῶς ἔχοντες· οὐκ ἦλθον καλέσαι δικαίους, ἀλλ' ἁμαρτωλοὺς εἰς μετάνοιαν»; 4.13.4 ἐκάλει δῆτα ὁ πάντων σωτήρ· «δεῦτε», λέγων, «πρός με πάντες οἱ κοπιῶντες καὶ πεφορτισμένοι, κἀγὼ ἀναπαύσω ὑμᾶς». ἐκάλει καὶ ἰᾶτο ἀφθόνως δι' ὀργάνου οὗ προυβέβλητο ἀνθρωπίνου, οἷά τις μουσικὸς ἀνὴρ διὰ τῆς λύρας τὴν σοφίαν ἐπιδεικνύμενος, καὶ νοσούσαις γε ψυχαῖς ταῖς ἐν σώμασιν, οἷά τις ἰατρῶν ἄριστος, συγγενεῖ καὶ καταλλήλῳ βοηθήματι τὸν ἄνθρωπον παρίστη, αὐτός τε ἑαυτὸν ὑπόδειγμα πανσόφου καὶ παναρέτου καὶ εὐσεβοῦς παρείχετο βίου, διδάσκων μὲν τὰ ἀληθῆ οὐ παρ' ἑτέρων ἠρανισμένα, ἐξ αὐτοῦ δὲ καὶ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς τὰ πάλαι καὶ ἐκ μακροῦ τοῦ αἰῶνος τοῖς ἀνέκαθεν θεοφιλέσιν καὶ τοῖς πρὸ Μωσέως Ἑβραίοις νενομοθετημένα· 4.13.5 σωμάτων δ' οὐχ ἧττον ἢ ψυχῶν ἐπιμελόμενος, καὶ σαρκικοῖς μὲν ἀνθρώπων ὀφθαλμοῖς τὰ διὰ τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτῷ δρώμενα παρασκευάζων ὁρᾶν, ἀκοαῖς δὲ πάλιν σαρκὸς τὰς διὰ γλώττης καὶ σαρκὸς ὑπηχῶν διδασκαλίας, καὶ πάντα γ' ἐπιτελῶν δι' οὗ ἀνείληφεν ἀνθρώπου τοῖς οὐκ ἄλλως ἢ μόνως οὕτως τῆς αὐτοῦ θειότητος συναισθέσθαι δυναμένοις. 4.13.6 Ταῦτα δὴ οὖν ἅπαντα εἰς τὸ χρήσιμον καὶ πᾶσιν ἡμῖν ὠφέλιμον ὁ πάντα φιλάνθρωπος τοῦ θεοῦ λόγος ταῖς πατρικαῖς βουλαῖς διηκονεῖτο, μένων πάλιν αὐτὸς ἄϋλος καὶ ἀσώματος, οἷος καὶ πρὸ τοῦ παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ ἦν, οὐ μεταβαλὼν τὴν οὐσίαν, οὐδ' ἀφανισθεὶς τῆς αὐτὸς ἑαυτοῦ φύσεως, οὐδέ γε τοῖς τῆς σαρκὸς δεσμοῖς πεδηθείς, οὐδ' ἀποπεσὼν τῆς θεότητος, ἀλλ' οὐδὲ τὴν οἰκείαν τοῦ λόγου παραπολέσας δύναμιν, οὐδ' ὧδε μὲν ἔνθα ἦν αὐτῷ τὸ ἀνθρώπειον σκεῦος τὰς διατριβὰς ποιούμενος, ἐν ἑτέροις δ' εἶναι τοῦ παντὸς κεκωλυμένος· ἀλλὰ γὰρ καὶ ἐν τῷ τότε, καθ' ὃ ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἐπολιτεύετο, τὰ πάντα ἐπλήρου, καὶ τῷ πατρὶ συνῆν, καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ γε ἦν, καὶ τῶν πάντων ἀθρόως καὶ ἐν τῷ τότε τῶν τε κατ' οὐρανὸν καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς ἐπεμέλετο, οὐδαμῶς τῆς πανταχόσε παρουσίας ὁμοίως ἡμῖν ἀποκεκλεισμένος, οὐδὲ τὰ θεῖα πράττειν συνήθως παραποδιζόμενος, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ἐξ αὐτοῦ μεταδιδοὺς τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ, τὰ δ' ἐκ τοῦ θνητοῦ μὴ ἀντιλαμβάνων, καὶ τῆς μὲν ἐνθέου δυνάμεως τῷ θνητῷ χορηγῶν, τῆς δ' ἐκ τοῦ θνητοῦ μετουσίας οὐκ ἀντεπαγόμενος. 4.13.7 οὔτ' οὖν ἐμολύνετο τικτόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ σώματος ὁ ἀσώματος, οὐδὲ τὴν οὐσίαν ἔπασχεν ὁ ἀπαθὴς ὑπὸ τοῦ θνητοῦ, ἐπεὶ μηδὲ τῆς λύρας εἰ οὕτως τύχοι κοπτομένης, ἢ τῶν χορδῶν διασπωμένων, πάσχειν εἰκὸς τὸν ἀνακρουόμενον, οὐδέ γε σοφοῦ τινος ἀνδρὸς τιμωρουμένου τοῦ σώματος τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ σοφίαν ἢ τήν γε ἐν τῷ σώματι ψυχὴν κόπτεσθαι ἢ κάεσθαι φαίημεν ἂν εἰκότως. ταύτῃ τοι πολὺ πλέον οὐδὲ τὴν τοῦ λόγου φύσιν ἢ δύναμιν βλάβος τι ἐκ τῶν τοῦ σώματος παθῶν ἀποφέρεσθαι φάναι