20. Yet many, with the art by which they seek to prove their heresy, are wont to delude the ears of the unlearned with the error, that as the body and soul of Adam both sinned, so the Lord must have taken the soul and body of Adam from the Virgin, and that it was not the whole Man that she conceived from the Holy Ghost617    Apollinaris argued that if Christ were perfect God and perfect man, there would be two Christs, the Son of God by nature and the Son of God by adoption. Hence He taught that Christ was partly God and partly man; that He received from the Virgin His body and the lower, irrational soul which is the condition of bodily life; while His rational Spirit was Divine. On this theory the ‘whole man,’ as Hilary says, was not born of the Virgin. Hilary denies the threefold division. The soul in every case, Christ’s included, is, he says, the immediate work of God.. If they had understood the mystery of the Incarnation, these men would have understood at the same time the mystery that the Son of Man is also Son of God. As if in receiving so much from the Virgin, He received from her His soul also; whereas though flesh is always born of flesh, every soul is the direct work of God.

20. Adae carnem et animam Christum accepisse docentes. Anima opus Dei.---Quamquam multi confirmandae 0358A haereseos suae arte, ita aures imperitorum soleant illudere, ut quia et corpus et anima Adae in peccato fuit, carnem quoque Adae atque animam Dominus ex Virgine acceperit, neque hominem totum ex Spiritu sancto Virgo conceperit. Qui si intelligerent sacramentum carnis assumptae, intelligerent etiam sacramentum ejusdem et hominis filii et 334 Dei filii. Quasi vero si tantum ex Virgine assumpsisset quoque ex eadem et animam: cum anima omnis opus Dei sit, carnis vero generatio semper ex carne sit.