6. But, as we pointed out in the former books, they seize the Dispensation of the assumed manhood as a pretext to dishonour His divinity, and distort the Mystery of our salvation into an occasion of blasphemy. Had they held fast the faith of the Apostle, they would neither have forgotten that He, Who was in the form of God, took the form of a servant, nor made use of the servant’s form to dishonour the form of God (for the form of God includes the fulness of divinity), but they would have noted, reasonably and reverently, the distinction of occasions721    i.e. the occasions when Christ was speaking of His humanity and those when He was referring to His divine nature. and mysteries, without dishonouring the divinity, or being misled by the Incarnation of Christ. But now, when we have, I am convinced, proved everything to the utmost, and pointed out the power of the divine nature underlying the birth of the assumed body, there is no longer room for doubt. He Who was at once man and the Only-begotten God performed all things by the power of God, and in the power of God accomplished all things through a true human nature. As begotten of God He possessed the nature of divine omnipotence, as born of the Virgin He had a perfect and entire humanity. Though He had a real body, He subsisted in the nature of God, and though He subsisted in the nature of God, He abode in a real body.

6. Quae hominis sunt, rapiunt ad injuriam Verbi. Naturae 0403B duplicis distinctione diluta sunt hactenus objecta. ---Sed ut superioribus libris docuimus, dispensationem assumpti corporis rapiunt ad contumeliam divinitatis: et impietatis causas arripiunt de salutis nostrae sacramento, Qui si apostolicae fidei tenaces essent, intelligerent eum, qui in forma Dei esset, assumpsisse 378 formam servi; neque formam servi usurparent ad formae Dei dehonestatem, cum forma Dei plenitudinem in se Dei contineret: et quae essent temporum ac mysterium, pia ratione tractarent, ut nec contumeliam divinitas susciperet, nec dispensatio afferret errorem. Sed omnibus, ut existimo, jam a nobis absolutissime demonstratis, et sub assumpti corporis nativitate divinae naturae virtute monstrata, non relictus est ambigendi locus, quin omnia unigenitus 0403C Deus et homo virtutibus Dei gesserit, et in virtutibus Dei universa hominis veritate perfecerit: habens in se et naturam Dei potentis in gestis, dum natus ex Deo est; et perfecti hominis absolutionem, dum ei est partus ex Virgine: et cum veritate corporis subsistens in natura Dei, et cum Dei natura manens in corporis veritate.