56. Why do you distort the Incarnation into a blasphemy? Why pervert the mystery of salvation into a weapon of destruction? The Father, Who glorifies the Son, is greater: The Son, Who is glorified in the Father, is not less. How can He be less, when He is in the glory of God the Father? And how can the Father not be greater? The Father therefore is greater, because He is Father: but the Son, because He is Son, is not less. By the birth of the Son the Father is constituted greater: the nature that is His by birth, does not suffer the Son to be less. The Father is greater, for the Son prays Him to render glory to manhood He has assumed. The Son is not less, for He receives back His glory with the Father. Thus are consummated at once the mystery of the Birth, and the dispensation of the Incarnation. The Father, as Father, and as glorifying Him Who now is Son of Man, is greater: Father and Son are one, in that the Son, born of the Father, after assuming an earthly body is taken back to the glory of the Father.

56. Qui Pater major, nec Filius minor.---Quid dispensationem ad impietatem rapis? Quid sacramentum nostrae salutis invadis ad mortem? Glorificaturus Filium Pater major est: glorificatus in Patre Filius minor non est Aut quomodo minor est, qui in gloria Dei patris est? Aut numquid Pater major non est? Major itaque Pater est, dum pater est: sed Filius, dum filius est, 303 minor non est. Nativitas Filii patrem constituit majorem: minorem vero Filium esse nativitatis natura non patitur. Major Pater est, dum gloriam assumpto homini rogatur 0327B ut reddat: Filius minor non est, dum gloriam resumit apud Patrem. Atque ita et sacramentum nativitatis, et dispensatio corporationis impletur. Nam et Pater, dum et pater est et glorificat nunc filium hominis, major est: et Pater et Filius unum sunt, dum ex Patre natus Filius, post assumptionem terreni corporis glorificatur in Patrem.