35. We have now seen the power that lay in the acts and words of Christ. We have incontestably proved that His body did not share the infirmity of a natural body, because its power could expel the infirmities of the body that when He suffered, suffering laid hold of His body, but did not inflict upon it the nature of pain: and this because, though the form of our body was in the Lord, yet He by virtue of His origin was not in the body of our weakness and imperfection. He was conceived of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin, who performed the office of her sex, but did not receive the seed of His conception from man638    Reading ‘susceptis elementis.’. She brought forth a body, but one conceived of the Holy Ghost; a body possessing inherent reality, but with no infirmity in its nature. That body was truly and indeed body, because it was born of the Virgin: but it was above the weakness of our body, because it had its beginning in a spiritual conception.

35. Epilogus, quale Christi corpus.---Collatis igitur dictorum atque gestorum virtutibus, demonstrari 0371B non ambiguum est, in natura ejus corporis infirmitatem naturae corporeae non fuisse, cui in virtute naturae fuerit omnem corporum depellere infirmitatem; et passionem illam, licet illata corpori sit, non tamen naturam dolendi corpori intulisse: quia quamvis forma corporis nostri esset in Domino, non tamen in vitiosae infirmitatis nostrae esset corpore, qui non esset in origine, quod ex conceptu Spiritus sancti Virgo progenuit: quod licet sexus sui officio genuerit, tamen non terrenae 346 conceptionis suscepit elementis . Genuit etenim ex se corpus, sed quod conceptum esset ex Spiritu; habens quidem in se sui corporis veritatem, sed non habens naturae infirmitatem: dum et corpus illud corporis veritas est quod generatur ex virgine; et extra corporis nostri 0371C infirmitatem est, quod spiritalis conceptionis sumpsit exordium.