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Therefore, it is fitting to deny that the Lord was also highly exalted by him after the passion, so that we might not be accused of speaking of two Most Highs, if indeed the Word who was in the beginning is God Most High, and the one who rose from the dead was highly exalted after the passion, as the apostle says. For it is necessary to choose one of two things: either, while saying that he was highly exalted after the passion—which is equivalent to his having become Lord and Christ—to flee a charge of impiety from Eunomius, or, by avoiding the accusation, to deny the confession of the high 3.3.61 exaltation of the one who suffered. But against these things, it is necessary to once again set up the argument of our accuser as an advocate for our own defense. Therefore, we will state verbatim the things set forth by him, through which our own argument is established, in this way. 20The blessed20, he says, 20John teaches that God the Word, through whom all things were made, came to be in the flesh, saying, ‘And the Word became flesh.’20. Does he then add these things to his own argument understanding what he is writing? I for my part do not think that the same man can both know their meaning and contend against our argument. For if one were to examine carefully the things that are said, one would find in them no conflict at all between the things said by us and by him. 3.3.62 For we both see separately the things of the economy through the flesh and understand the divine power in itself, and he, in a similar way to us, says that the Word who was in the beginning was made manifest in the flesh; and neither has anyone else ever accused him, nor has he ever accused himself, of preaching two Words: the one who was in the beginning and the one who became flesh, for he knows assuredly that the Word who appeared in the flesh is the same Word as the one who was with God. But the flesh is not the same as the Godhead, before it too was transformed toward the Godhead, so that of necessity some things apply to God 3.3.63 the Word, and other things to the form of a servant. If, then, he does not accuse himself through such a confession [on account of] the duality of Words, how are we slandered for dividing the faith into two Christs, we who say that this one who was highly exalted from the passion became Lord and Christ through the union with the one who is truly Lord and Christ, knowing through what we have learned that the divine nature is always one and the same and in the same state, while the flesh in itself is that which reason and sense perceive concerning it, but when mingled with the divine, it no longer remains within its own limits and properties, but is taken up into that which is dominant and preeminent, and the contemplation of the properties of the flesh and of the Godhead remains unconfused, so long as each of these is contemplated in itself. 3.3.64 For example: the Word was before the ages, but the flesh came into being in the last times, and no one would reverse this and say either that the flesh is pre-eternal or that the Word came into being in the last times; the flesh is of a passible nature, but the Word is of an active one, and neither is the flesh the creator of things that exist, nor does the Godhead have a passible power; in the beginning the Word was with God, in the experience of death the man was, and neither is the human from eternity nor is the divine mortal. 3.3.65 And all other things are contemplated in the same way; neither does the human nature give life to Lazarus, nor does the impassible power weep for the one who lay dead, but the tear is proper to the man, and life is proper to Life itself; neither does human poverty feed the thousands, nor does the all-powerful authority run to the fig tree. Who is the one who grows weary from the journey, and who is the one who without toil established the whole world by the word? What is the radiance of glory, what is that which is pierced by the 3.3.66 nails? Which form is struck during the passion and which is glorified from eternity? For these things are clear even if one does not interpret them with reason: that the blows belong to the servant in whom the master is, and the honors belong to the master around whom the servant is; so that through the conjunction and growing together, the properties of each become common to both, with the master taking the servant's welts upon himself, and the servant being glorified with the master's honor; for this reason also the cross is called the cross of the Lord of glory and

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οὐκοῦν ἀρνεῖσθαι προσήκει καὶ τὸ ὑπερυψωθῆναι παρ' αὐτοῦ μετὰ τὸ πάθος τὸν κύριον, ὡς ἂν μὴ καὶ δύο ὑψίστους λέγειν αἰτιαθείημεν, εἴπερ ὕψιστος μὲν ὁ ἐν ἀρχῇ ὢν λόγος θεός, ὑπερυψώθη δὲ μετὰ τὸ πάθος ὁ ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστάς, καθώς φησιν ὁ ἀπόστολος. τῶν δύο γὰρ ἔστιν ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἑλέσθαι τὸ ἕτερον, ἢ λέγοντας ὑπερυψῶσθαι μετὰ τὸ πάθος, ὅπερ ἴσον ἐστὶ τῷ κύριον γενόμενον καὶ Χριστόν, ἀσεβείας παρὰ τῷ Εὐνομίῳ φεύγειν γραφήν, ἢ τὴν κατηγορίαν ἐκ κλίνοντας ἀρνεῖσθαι τὴν ὁμολογίαν τῆς τοῦ παθόντος ὑπερ 3.3.61 υψώσεως. ἀλλὰ χρὴ πρὸς ταῦτα πάλιν τὸν τοῦ κατηγόρου λόγον συνήγορον τῆς ἡμετέρας ἀπολογίας προστήσασθαι. οὐκοῦν ἐροῦμεν ἐπὶ λέξεως τὰ παρ' ἐκείνου τεθέντα, δι' ὧν ὁ ἡμέτερος συνίσταται λόγος, τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον. 20ὁ μακάριος20, φησίν, 20Ἰωάννης τὸν θεὸν λόγον, δι' οὗ τὰ πάντα γέγονεν, ἐν σαρκὶ γεγενῆσθαι διδά σκει λέγων Καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο20. ἆρα συν ιεὶς ἃ γράφει ταῦτα τῷ ἰδίῳ λόγῳ προστίθησιν; ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ οἶμαι τὸν αὐτὸν καὶ τὴν τούτων εἰδέναι διάνοιαν καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἡμέτερον διαμάχεσθαι λόγον. εἰ γάρ τις ἀκριβῶς ἐπισκέψαιτο τὰ λεγόμενα, οὐδεμίαν ἐν τούτοις εὑρήσει πρὸς ἄλληλα τῶν τε παρ' ἡμῶν καὶ τῶν παρ' ἐκείνου λεγομένων 3.3.62 τὴν μάχην. ἡμεῖς τε γὰρ καὶ τὰ διὰ σαρκὸς οἰκονομη θέντα κατ' ἰδίαν ὁρῶμεν καὶ τὴν θείαν δύναμιν ἐφ' ἑαυτῆς νοοῦμεν, ἐκεῖνός τε παραπλησίως ἡμῖν τὸν ἐν ἀρχῇ λόγον ἐν σαρκὶ πεφανερῶσθαι λέγει, καὶ οὔτε ἄλλος τις αὐτὸν οὔτε αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν ᾐτιάσατο πώποτε ὡς δύο λόγους κηρύσ σοντα, τόν τε ἐν ἀρχῇ ὄντα καὶ τὸν σάρκα γενόμενον, οἶδε γὰρ πάντως ὅτι ὁ μὲν λόγος ὁ αὐτός ἐστι τῷ λόγῳ ὁ ἐν σαρκὶ φανεὶς τῷ πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ὄντι. ἡ δὲ σὰρξ οὐχ ἡ αὐτὴ τῇ θεότητι πρὶν μεταποιηθῆναι καὶ ταύτην πρὸς τὴν θεότητα, ὡς ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἄλλα μὲν ἐφαρμόζειν τῷ θεῷ 3.3.63 λόγῳ, ἕτερα δὲ τῇ τοῦ δούλου μορφῇ. εἰ οὖν ἐκεῖνος οὐκ ἐγκαλεῖ αὑτῷ διὰ τῆς τοιαύτης ὁμολογίας [διὰ] τὴν τῶν λόγων δυάδα, πῶς ἡμεῖς πρὸς δύο Χριστοὺς διαμερίζειν τὴν πίστιν διαβαλλόμεθα, οἱ τὸν ἐκ τοῦ πάθους ὑπερυψω θέντα τοῦτον κύριόν τε καὶ Χριστὸν γεγενῆσθαι λέγοντες διὰ τῆς πρὸς τὸν ὄντως κύριον καὶ Χριστὸν ἑνώσεως, εἰδότες δι' ὧν μεμαθήκαμεν, ὅτι ἡ μὲν θεία φύσις ἀεὶ μία καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ καὶ ὡσαύτως ἔχουσα, ἡ δὲ σὰρξ καθ' ἑαυτὴν μέν ἐστι τοῦτο ὅπερ καταλαμβάνει περὶ αὐτῆς ὁ λόγος τε καὶ ἡ αἴσθησις, ἀνακραθεῖσα δὲ πρὸς τὸ θεῖον οὐκέτι ἐν τοῖς ἑαυτῆς ὅροις τε καὶ ἰδιώμασι μένει, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὸ ἐπι κρατοῦν τε καὶ ὑπερέχον ἀναλαμβάνεται, διαμένει δὲ ἀσύγ χυτος τῶν τε τῆς σαρκὸς καὶ τῶν τῆς θεότητος ἰδιωμάτων ἡ θεωρία, ἕως ἂν ἐφ' ἑαυτοῦ θεωρῆται τούτων ἑκάτερον. 3.3.64 οἷόν τι λέγω· ὁ λόγος πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων ἦν, ἡ σὰρξ δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐσχάτων ἐγένετο χρόνων, καὶ οὐκ ἄν τις ἀναστρέψας εἴποι ἢ ταύτην προαιώνιον εἶναι ἢ ἐν τοῖς ἐσχάτοις γε γενῆσθαι τὸν λόγον· ἡ σὰρξ παθητικῆς ἐστι φύσεως, ἐν εργητικῆς δὲ ὁ λόγος, καὶ οὔτε αὐτὴ δημιουργικὴ τῶν ὄντων οὔτε ἡ θεότης παθητικὴν ἔχει τὴν δύναμιν· ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεὸν ὁ λόγος, ἐν τῇ τοῦ θανάτου πείρᾳ ὁ ἄνθρωπος, καὶ οὔτε ἐξ ἀϊδίου τὸ ἀνθρώπινον οὔτε θνητὸν 3.3.65 τὸ θεῖον. καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πάντα κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν θεωρεῖται τρόπον· οὔτε ζωοποιεῖ τὸν Λάζαρον ἡ ἀνθρωπίνη φύσις οὔτε δακρύει τὸν κείμενον ἡ ἀπαθὴς ἐξουσία, ἀλλ' ἴδιον τοῦ μὲν ἀνθρώπου τὸ δάκρυον, ἡ δὲ ζωὴ τῆς ὄντως ζωῆς· οὔτε τρέφει τὰς χιλιάδας ἡ ἀνθρωπίνη πτωχεία οὔτε τρέχει ἐπὶ τὴν συκῆν ἡ παντοδύναμος ἐξουσία. τίς ὁ κοπιῶν ἐκ τῆς ὁδοιπορίας καὶ τίς ὁ ἀπόνως ὅλον τὸν κόσμον ὑπο στήσας τῷ λόγῳ; τί τὸ τῆς δόξης ἀπαύγασμα, τί τὸ τοῖς 3.3.66 ἥλοις διαπειρόμενον; ποία μορφὴ ἐπὶ τοῦ πάθους ῥαπί ζεται καὶ ποία ἐξ ἀϊδίου δοξάζεται; φανερὰ γὰρ ταῦτα κἂν μή τις ἐφερμηνεύσῃ τῷ λόγῳ, ὅτι αἱ μὲν πληγαὶ τοῦ δούλου ἐν ᾧ ὁ δεσπότης, αἱ δὲ τιμαὶ τοῦ δεσπότου περὶ ὃν ὁ δοῦλος· ὡς διὰ τὴν συνάφειάν τε καὶ συμφυΐαν κοινὰ γίνεσθαι τὰ ἑκατέρας ἀμφότερα, τοῦ τε δεσπότου τοὺς δου λικοὺς μώλωπας εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἀναλαμβάνοντος καὶ τοῦ δούλου τῇ δεσποτικῇ δοξαζομένου τιμῇ· διὰ τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ τοῦ κυρίου τῆς δόξης ὁ σταυρὸς λέγεται καὶ