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having obscured in himself its property of division. Then, in addition to these, having passed through sensible and intelligible things in succession through all the divine and intelligible orders in heaven, with the soul and the body, that is, of our complete nature, he united them, showing in himself the convergence of the whole creation toward the one according to its most original and universal principle to be completely indivisible and without strife. And finally, on top of all these things, in the conception of his humanity he comes to God himself, having appeared on our behalf, clearly, as it is written, in the presence of God the Father as a man—He who could in no way ever be separated from the Father as the Logos—fulfilling as a man in deed and in truth, through unwavering obedience, all that he himself as God foreordained to come to be, and having completed every counsel of God the Father on behalf of us who had rendered useless by misuse the power naturally given to us for this purpose from the beginning, and first uniting us to ourselves in himself through the removal of the difference between male and female, and instead of men and women, in whom the mode of division is especially contemplated (1312), showing them to be only properly and truly human beings, wholly formed according to him and bearing his sound and completely unadulterated image, which none of the marks of corruption touches in any way, and with us and for our sake, having encompassed the extremes of the whole creation through the intermediaries as his own parts, and having bound them indissolubly to each other around himself—paradise and the inhabited world, heaven and earth, sensible and intelligible things—as having, like us, a body and sensation and a soul and a mind, by which, as by parts, having appropriated in each case the extreme that is generically akin to each in the manner previously described, in a God-befitting way he recapitulated all things in himself, showing the whole creation to be one, like another human being, being completed by the coming together of its own parts with one another and inclining toward itself in the totality of its being, according to the one and simple and indeterminate, and undifferentiated conception of its production from non-being, according to which the whole creation can receive one and the same completely indistinct principle, having "it was not" as prior to "to be."

For according to the true principle all things that exist after God and have their being from God through generation coincide with one another in some way at least, if not in every way, with none of the beings at all, not even the most honorable and transcendent, being completely released by nature from a general relation to that which is exceedingly dissimilar, nor indeed with the most dishonorable among beings being entirely left out of and deprived of a general relation by nature to the most dishonorable things. For all things that are distinguished from one another by their own specific differences are united by universal and common generic identities, and are pressed together with one another toward one and the same thing by some generic principle of nature. For instance, the genera, being united to one another according to substance, possess what is one and the same and indivisible. For nothing that is universal, containing, and generic is completely divided along with the particular, contained, and specific things. For that cannot be generic which does not bring together the things that are naturally divided, but is divided along with them and departs from its own monadic unity. For every generic thing, according to its own principle, exists unitively as a whole indivisibly in the wholes under it, and the whole of each particular is contemplated generically. And the species, according to the genus, likewise being released from the diversity found in their difference, receive their identity with one another. And the individuals, according to the species, receiving their agreement with one another, have become in every way one and the same with one another, having what is unvarying in their common nature and being free from all difference. But the accidents according to the

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αὐτήν ἐν ἑαυτῷ διαιρέσεως ἀμαυρώσας τήν ἰδιότητα. Ἔπειτα πρός τούτοις, τά αἰσθητά καί τά νοητά καθεξῆς διά πάντων τῶν κατ᾿ οὐρανόν θείων καί νοητῶν ταγμάτων διελθών μετά τῆς ψυχῆς καί τοῦ σώματος, τουτέστι τελείας τῆς ἡμετέρας φύσεως, ἥνωσε, τήν πρός τό ἕν τῆς ὅλης κτίσεως κατά τόν ἑαυτῆς ἀρχικώτατόν τε καί καθολικώτατον λόγον σύννευσιν δείξας ἐν ἑαυτῷ παντελῶς ἀδιαίρετόν τε καί ἀστασίαστον. Καί τέλος ἐπί πᾶσι τούτοις κατά τήν ἐπίνοιαν τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος πρός αὐτόν γένεται τόν Θεόν, ἐμφανισθείς ὑπέρ ἡμῶν δηλονότι, καθώς γέγραπται, τῷ προσώπῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ καί Πατρός ὡς ἄνθρωπος ὁ καθ᾿ οἱονδήποτε τρόπον μηδέποτε τοῦ Πατρός ὡς Λόγος χωρισθῆναι δυνάμενος, πληρώσας ὡς ἄνθρωπος ἔργῳ καί ἀληθείᾳ καθ᾿ ὑπακοήν ἀπαράβατον ὅσα προώρισεν αὐτός ὡς Θεός γενέσθαι, καί τελειώσας πᾶσαν βουλήν τοῦ Θεοῦ καί Πατρός ὑπέρ ἡμῶν τῶν ἀχρειωσάντων τῇ παραχρήσει τήν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἡμῖν φυσικῶς πρός τοῦτο δοθεῖσαν δύναμιν, καί πρῶτον ἑνώσας ἡμῖν ἑαυτούς ἐν ἑαυτῷ διά τῆς ἀφαιρέσεως τῆς κατά τό ἄῤῥεν καί τό θῆλυ διαφορᾶς, καί ἀντί ἀνδρῶν καί γυναικῶν, οἷς ὁ τῆς διαιρέσεως ἐνθεωρεῖται μάλιστα τρόπος (1312), ἀνθρώπους μόνον κυρίως τε καί ἀληθῶς ἀποδείξας, κατ᾿ αὐτόν δι᾿ ὅλου μεμορφωμένους καί σώαν αὐτοῦ καί παντελῶς ἀκίβδηλον τήν εἰκόναν φέροντας, ἧς κατ' οὐδένα τρόπον οὐδέν τῶν φθορᾶς γνωρισμάτων ἅπτεται, καί σύν ἡμῖν καί δι' ἡμᾶς τήν ἅπασαν κτίσιν διά τῶν μέσων ὡς μερῶν ἰδίων τά ἄκρα περιλαβών καί περί ἑαυτόν ἀλύτως ἀλλήλοις διασφίγξας παράδεισον καί οἰκουμένην, οὐρανόν καί γῆν, αἰσθητά καί νοητά, ὡς σῶμα καί αἴσθησιν καί ψυχήν καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς ἔχων καί νοῦν, οἷς ὡς μέρεσι καθ᾿ ἕκαστον τό ἑκάστῳ καθόλου συγγενές οἰκειωσάμενος ἄκρον κατά τόν προαποδοθέντα τρόπον θεοπρεπῶς τά πάντα εἰς ἑαυτόν ἀνεκεφαλαιώσατο, μίαν ὑπάρχουσαν τήν ἅπασαν κτίσιν δείξας, καθάπερ ἄνθρωπον ἄλλον, τῇ τῶν μερῶν ἑαυτῆς πρός ἄλληλα συνόδῳ συμπληρουμένην καί πρός ἑαυτήν νεύουσαν τῇ ὁλότητι τῆς ὑπάρξεως, κατά τήν μίαν καί ἁπλῆν καί ἀπροσδιόριστον, τῆς ἐκ τοῦ μή ὄντος παραγωγῆς καί ἀδιάφορον ἔννοιαν, καθ᾿ ἥν ἕνα καί τόν αὐτόν πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις ἐπιδέξασθαι δύναται λόγον παντελῶς ἀδιάκριτον, τό "Οὐκ ἦν" τοῦ "εἶναι" πρεσβύτερον ἔχουσα.

Πάντα γάρ κατά τόν ἀληθῆ λόγον ἀλλήλοις συνεμπίπτει καθ᾿ ὁτιοῦν πάντως, εἰ καί μή πάντη, τά μετά Θεόν ὄντα καί ἐκ Θεοῦ τό εἶναι διά γενέσεως ἔχοντα, μηδενός καθόλου τῶν ὄντων, μηδέ τῶν ἄγαν τιμίων καί ὑπερβεβηκότων τῆς πρός τό ἄγαν ἄσχετον γενικῆς σχέσεως, παντάπασι φυσικῶς ἀπολελυμένου, μήτε μήν τοῦ ἐν τοῖς οὖσιν ἀτιμωτάτου τῆς πρός τά ἀτιμιώτατα κατά φύσιν γενικῆς παντελῶς ἀπολιμπανομένου καί ἀμοιροῦντος σχέσεως. Πάντα γάρ τά ταῖς οἰκείαις ἰδίως διαφοραῖς ἀλλήλων διακεκριμμένα ταῖς καθόλου καί κοιναῖς γενικῶς ταὐτότησιν ἥνωνται, καί πρός τό ἕν καί ταὐτόν ἀλλήλοις γενικῷ τινι λόγῳ φύσεως συνωθοῦνται, οἷον τά μέν γένη κατά τήν οὐσίαν ἀλλήλοις ἑνούμενα τό ἕν ἔχει καί ταὐτόν καί ἀδιαίρετον. Οὐδέν γάρ τῶν καθόλου καί περιεχόντων καί γενικῶν τοῖς ἐπί μέρους καί περιεχομένοις καί ἰδικοῖς παντελῶς συνδιαιρεῖται. Οὐ γάρ ἔστι γενικόν εἶναι δύναται τό μή συνάγον τά διῃρημένα φυσικῶς, ἀλά συνδιαιρούμενον αὐτοῖς, καί τῆς οἰκείας μοναδικῆς ἑνότητος ἐξιστάμενον. Πᾶν γάρ γενικόν κατά τόν οἰκεῖον λόγον ὅλον ὅλοις ἀδιαιρέτως τοῖς ὑπ᾿ αὐτό ἑνικῶς ἐνυπάρχει, καί τό καθ᾿ ἕκαστον ὅλον ἐνθεωρεῖται γενικῶς. Τά δέ εἴδη κατά τό γένος ὡσαύτως τῆς ἐν τῇ διαφορᾷ ποικιλίας ἀπολυθέντα τήν πρός ἄλληλα ταὐτότητα δέχεται. Τά ἄτομα δέ κατά τό εἶδος τήν πρός ἄλληλα δεχόμενα σύμβασιν ἕν καί ταὐτόν ἀλλήλοις πάντη καθέστηκε, τῇ ὁμοφυΐᾳ τό ἀπαράλλακτον ἔχοντα καί διαφορᾶς πάσης ἐλεύθερον. Τά δέ συμβεβηκότα κατά τό