Fragment
IV.
For, in the view of apostles and prophets and
teachers, the mystery of the divine incarnation has been distinguished
as having two points of contemplation natural to it,1744
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διττὴν
καὶ διαφορὰν
ἔχον
διέγνωσται
τὴν ἐν πᾶσι
φυσικὴν
θεωρίαν. |
distinct in all things, inasmuch as on
the one
hand it is the subsistence of
perfect deity, and on the other
is demonstrative of full
humanity. As long, therefore,
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text goes, ἕως ἂν οὐχ,
which is adopted by Combefisius. But Capperonnier and Migne read
οὖν for οὐχ, as we have rendered
it. |
as the Word is
acknowledged to be in substance one, of one energy, there shall never
in any way be known a movement
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in the two. For while
God, who is
essentially ever-existent, became by His infinite power, according to
His will, sinless man, He is what He was, in all wherein God is known;
and what He became, He is in all wherein man is known and can be
recognised. In both aspects of Himself He never falls out of
Himself,
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in His divine
activities and in His human alike, preserving in both relations His own
essentially unchangeable perfection.
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