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having, and of the divinity hypostatically united to it, separated. For truly beyond us, the supersubstantial Word, having been given our substance, joined the negation by way of transcendence to the affirmation of the nature and of its natural properties, and became man, having the supranatural mode of "how to be" joined to the natural principle of "to be," in order that he might both confirm the nature by the newness of the modes, which according to its principle does not admit of alteration, and likewise show the infinitely great power being made known even in the generation of opposites. Indeed, having made the passions of the nature works of the power of his will, but not, as with us, the results of a natural necessity, he went through that which in us is passible by nature in the opposite way than we do, showing that what is by nature in us a mover of the will, was in himself moved by the power of his will. Clarifying this in the following, the teacher says: "Why should one go through the rest, which are very many? through which the one who sees divinely will know beyond mind that even the things affirmed of the philanthropy of Jesus have the power of a transcendent negation." For the supersubstantial Word, having taken upon himself all the things of nature along with the nature through an ineffable conception, had nothing human affirmed by a natural principle, which was not also divine, being negated by a supranatural mode. Of which things the knowledge was beyond mind as undemonstrable, having as its only comprehension the faith of those who venerate the mystery of Christ with knowledge. Of which, giving a kind of summary account, he says: "For, to speak summarily, he was not a man," because by nature he was free from natural necessity, not being subject to our law of generation. "Not as if not a man," because in his whole substance he was truly man, partaking by nature of our natural properties, "but as from men;" since he was consubstantial with us, being what we are by nature, a man, "beyond men," (1056) by the newness of the modes, which we are not, circumscribing the nature. "And having become truly man beyond man," having the supranatural modes and the natural principles joined to one another without confusion, a union of which was impossible, he himself, for whom nothing is impossible, having become a true union, in neither of the things of which he was the hypostasis at all acting separately from the other, but rather through each confirming the other; since being truly both, as God he was the mover of his own humanity, and as man he was the revealer of his own divinity. Divinely, so to speak, having his suffering, for it was voluntary, since he was not a mere man, and humanly the working of wonders, for it was through the flesh, since he was not a bare God. So that the sufferings were wondrous, being made new by the natural divine power of the one suffering, and the wonders passible, being accomplished by the natural passible power of the flesh of the one working them. Knowing this, the teacher says: "And for the rest, not doing divine things in a divine manner," that is, not only divinely, separated from the flesh, for he was not only supersubstantial, nor human things in a human manner, that is, not only in a fleshly way, separated from the divinity, for he was not only a man, "but of God made man, he has shown to us a certain new 'theandric' energy." For having truly become man by the assumption of flesh intellectually ensouled, the pre-eminently philanthropic one, and having the divine energy made man by an ineffable union in natural unity with the fleshly one, fulfilled the economy for our sake theandrically, that is, doing both the divine and the human things divinely and at the same time humanly, or to speak more clearly, having manifested a divine and at the same time a human energy.

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Οὐκοῦν ἀποφάσει τῆς τῶν θείων καί ἀνθρωπίνων πρός ἄλληλα διαιρέσεως τήν τῆς ἑνώσεως κατάφασιν ὁ σοφός ποιησάμενος τήν φυσικήν τῶν ἡνωμένων διαφοράν οὐκ ἠγνόησεν· ἡ γάρ ἕνωσις τήν διαίρεσιν ἀπωσαμένη τήν διαφοράν οὐκ ἐλώβησεν. Εἰ δέ