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of wisdom and knowledge are hidden;" and the divine David also sings to the Father and God in heaven, "In your counsel you have guided me," calling the Son who was begotten from Him His counsel. Then how is it not ridiculous to think that His wisdom and His counsel are ignorant of anything that is in the Father? And He who alone knows the Father, how is He ignorant of the day of the consummation? Which, then, is superior in knowledge, to know what the Father is, or the last day? And again it is written that "the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God." Therefore, when the Spirit who knows the depths of God and all things in Him, is also the Spirit 585 of the Son Himself, how does He not know the things in His own Father? Therefore, since many thoughts press their ignorant and spurious argument into absurdity, it is necessary to come to the economy, and to say that the Only-begotten Word of God has indeed borne, along with His humanity, all its properties, sin only excepted. And it would be fitting to the measures of humanity, reasonably, also to be ignorant of things to come; Therefore, insofar as He is understood as God, He knows all things that the Father also knows; but insofar as the same one is man, He does not cast off appearing to be ignorant, because it is fitting to His humanity. For just as He, being the life and power of all, received bodily food, not dishonoring the measure of the kenosis, and it is recorded that he slept and was weary, so also, knowing all things, He does not blush to attribute to Himself the ignorance that is fitting to humanity; for all the things of humanity became His, sin only excepted. But since the disciples wanted to learn things beyond themselves, He usefully pretends not to know as man, and says that not even the holy angels in heaven know, so that they might not be grieved at not being entrusted with the mystery. Against those who say that the Word performs the divine signs by Himself, His holy flesh contributing nothing to this. SOLUTION. And those who say that one must not make the flesh 586 common to the divinity of the Only-begotten, nor the divinity to the flesh in the performance of miracles; or also that God the Word raised Lazarus from the tomb by His voice and not the man, and that it was not God who grew weary on the journey, but the man who was assumed, and that he himself was hungry and thirsty and was crucified and died; we say that they have erred from the truth in every way, and are ignorant of the mystery of the economy with the flesh. For we do not say there are two sons, nor two christs, but one Christ and Son, the Only-begotten God and His hypostatic Word, begotten from God the Father before all age and time, and in the last times the same one according to the flesh from a woman. Let them not, therefore, separate as though double-minded, nor introduce to us two sons, but let them confess one and the same, as the incarnate Word of God, and all His words and works as His own. For since He was the same, both God and man together, He speaks both in a manner befitting God and in a human manner; and He likewise performs both human and divine things. Therefore when they confess one Son and Christ and Lord, they will cease from ignorantly dividing and separating into two, as if one Son were to be understood specifically and separately as the Word from God the Father, and another again specifically and separately as the Son, the man who was assumed, as they say. For we do not say so, nor do we believe so, but that the Word, being God, became flesh, that is, man, not casting off being God, but also remaining what He was unchangeably and unalterably, and having partaken of flesh and 587 blood according to the Scriptures; and the flesh that was united to Him and became His own

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τῆς σοφίας καὶ γνώσεως ἀπόκρυφοι·" ψάλλει δὲ καὶ ὁ θεσπέσιος ∆αυεὶδ πρὸς τὸν ἐν οὐρανοῖς πατέρα καὶ Θεόν "Ἐν τῇ βουλῇ σου ὡδήγησάς με," βουλὴν αὐτοῦ λέγων τὸν ἐξ αὐτοῦ φύντα Υἱόν. εἶτα πῶς οὐ γελοῖον ἀγνοεῖν οἴεσθαί τι τῶν ἐν τῷ Πατρὶ τὴν σοφίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν βουλὴν αὐτοῦ; καὶ ὁ μόνος εἰδὼς τὸν Πατέρα, πῶς ἀγνοεῖ τὴν τῆς συντελείας ἡμέραν; ποῖον ἄρα τὸ προὔχον ἐν γνώσει, τὸ εἰδέναι τί ἔστιν ὁ Πατὴρ, ἤγουν τὴν ἐσχάτην ἡμέραν; γέγραπται δὲ πάλιν ὅτι "τὸ Πνεῦμα πάντα ἐρευνᾷ "καὶ τὰ βάθη τοῦ Θεοῦ." ὅτε τοίνυν τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ εἰδὸς τὰ βάθη τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ, Πνεῦμά ἐστι καὶ 585 αὐτοῦ τοῦ Υἱοῦ, πῶς οὐκ οἶδε τὰ ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ Πατρί; πολλῶν τοιγαροῦν εἰς ἀτοπίαν ἐννοιῶν συνωθουσῶν τὸν ἀμαθῆ καὶ κίβδηλον ἐκείνων λόγον, ἀναγκαῖον ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν οἰκονομίαν, φάναι τε, ὅτι πεφόρηκε μὲν ὁ Μονογενὴς τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος μετὰ τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος καὶ πάντα τὰ αὐτῆς, δίχα μόνης ἁμαρτίας. ἀνθρωπότητος δὲ μέτροις πρέποι ἂν εἰκότως καὶ τὸ ἀγνοεῖν τὰ ἐσόμενα· οὐκοῦν καθ' ὃ μὲν νοεῖται Θεὸς, οἶδε πάντα ὅσα καὶ ὁ Πατήρ· καθ' ὃ γεμὴν ἄνθρωπος ὁ αὐτὸς, οὐκ ἀποσείεται τὸ καὶ ἀγνοῆσαι δοκεῖν, διὰ τὸ τῇ ἀνθρωπότητι πρέπον. ὥσπερ δὲ αὐτὸς ὢν ἡ πάντων ζωὴ καὶ δύναμις τροφὴν ἐδέχετο σωματικὴν, οὐκ ἀτιμάζων τὸ τῆς κενώσεως μέτρον, ἀναγέγραπται δὲ καὶ ὑπνῶν καὶ κοπιάσας, οὕτω καὶ πάντα εἰδὼς τὴν τῇ ἀνθρωπότητι πρέπουσαν ἄγνοιαν οὐκ ἐρυθριᾷ προσνέμων ἑαυτῷ· γέγονε γὰρ αὐτοῦ πάντα τὰ τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος, δίχα μόνης ἁμαρτίας. ἐπειδὴ δὲ τὰ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοὺς ἤθελον οἱ μαθηταὶ μανθάνειν, σκήπτεται χρησίμως τὸ μὴ εἰδέναι καθὸ ἄνθρωπος, καί φησι, μηδὲ αὐτοὺς εἰδέναι τοὺς κατὰ τὸν οὐρανὸν ὄντας ἁγίους ἀγγέλους, ἵνα μὴ λυπῶνται ὡς μὴ θαῤῥηθέντες τὸ μυστήριον. Πρὸς τοὺς λέγοντας ὅτι ἰδικῶς ὁ Λόγος ἐνεργεῖ τὰς θεοσημίας, οὐδὲν πρὸς τοῦτο ἐχούσης τῆς ἁγίας αὐτοῦ σαρκός. ΕΠΙΛΥΣΙΣ. Τοὺς δὲ λέγοντας, ὅτι οὐ χρὴ κοινοποιεῖν τὴν σάρκα 586 τῇ θεότητι τοῦ Μονογενοῦς, οὐδὲ τὴν θεότητα τῇ σαρκὶ ἐν ταῖς θαυματουργίαις· ἢ καὶ ὅτι τὸν Λάζαρον ἤγειρεν ἐκ τοῦ μνημείου φωνήσας ὁ Θεὸς Λόγος καὶ οὐχ ὁ ἄνθρωπος, καὶ ὅτι οὐχ ὁ Θεὸς ἐκοπίασεν ἐν τῇ ὁδοιπορίᾳ, ἀλλ' ὁ ἀναληφθεὶς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπείνασε καὶ ἐδίψησε καὶ ἐσταυρώθη καὶ ἀπέθανεν· ὁλοτρόπως τῆς ἀληθείας διημαρτηκέναι φαμὲν, καὶ τῆς μετὰ σαρκὸς οἰκονομίας ἀγνοῆσαι τὸ μυστήριον. οὐ γὰρ εἶναί φαμεν υἱοὺς δύο, οὐδὲ δύο χριστοὺς, ἀλλ' ἕνα Χριστὸν καὶ Υἱὸν, τὸν ἐκ Θεοῦ μὲν Πατρὸς πρὸ παντὸς αἰῶνος καὶ χρόνου γεννηθέντα Θεὸν Μονογενῆ καὶ ἐνυπόστατον αὐτοῦ Λόγον, ἐν ἐσχάτοις δὲ τοῦ αἰῶνος καιροῖς τὸν αὐτὸν κατὰ σάρκα ἐκ γυναικός. μὴ τοίνυν ἀποδιοριζέτωσαν ὡς δίψυχοι, μηδὲ δύο ἡμῖν εἰσκομιζέτωσαν υἱοὺς, ἀλλ' ἕνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ὁμολογείτωσαν, ὡς ἐνανθρωπήσαντα Θεοῦ Λόγον, καὶ αὐτοῦ πάντα καὶ φωνὰς καὶ ἐνεργείας. ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἦν ὁ αὐτὸς Θεός τε ὁμοῦ καὶ ἄνθρωπος, λαλεῖ καὶ θεοπρεπῶς καὶ ἀνθρωπίνως· ἐνεργεῖ δὲ ὁμοίως καὶ τὰ ἀνθρώπινα καὶ τὰ θεοπρεπῆ. ὅταν τοίνυν ὁμολογῶσιν ἕνα Υἱὸν καὶ Χριστὸν καὶ Κύριον, πεπαύσονται διαιροῦντες ἀμαθῶς καὶ διιστάντες εἰς δύο, ὡς ἕνα μὲν ἰδικῶς καὶ ἀνὰ μέρος υἱὸν νοεῖσθαι τὸν ἐκ Θεοῦ Πατρὸς Λόγον, ἕτερον δὲ πάλιν ἰδικῶς καὶ ἀνὰ μέρος υἱὸν τὸν, ὡς αὐτοί φασιν, ἀναληφθέντα ἄνθρωπον. ἡμεῖς γὰρ οὐχ οὕτως φαμὲν, οὐδὲ οὕτως πιστεύομεν, ἀλλ' ὅτι Θεὸς ὢν ὁ Λόγος γέγονεν σὰρξ τουτέστιν ἄνθρωπος, οὐκ ἀποβαλὼν τὸ εἶναι Θεὸς, ἀλλὰ καὶ μεμενηκὼς ὅπερ ἦν ἀτρέπτως καὶ ἀναλλοιώτως, καὶ μετεσχηκὼς σαρκὸς καὶ 587 αἵματος κατὰ τὰς γραφάς· τὴν δέ γε ἑνωθεῖσαν αὐτῷ καὶ ἰδίαν αὐτοῦ γενομένην σάρκα