- ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Fragment VI.

Among Christians it is settled as the doctrine of piety, that, according to nature itself, and to the activity and to whatever else pertains thereunto, God is equal and the same with Himself,¹⁷⁵⁸

¹⁷⁵⁸ ἵσον ἑαυτῷ καὶ ταυτόν.
having nothing that is His unequal to Himself at all and heterogeneous.¹⁷⁵⁹

¹⁷⁵⁹ ἀκατάλληλον.
If, then, according to Beron, the flesh that He assumed to Himself became possessed of the like natural energy with them, it is evident that it also became possessed of the like nature with Him in all wherein that nature consists,—to wit, non-origination, non-generation, infinitude, eternity, incomprehensibility, and whatever else in the way of the transcendent the theological mind discerns in deity; and thus they both underwent conversion, neither the one nor the other preserving any more the substantial relation of its own proper nature.¹⁷⁶⁰

¹⁷⁶⁰ τῆς ἰδίας φύσεως οὐσιώδη λόγον.
For he who recognises an identical operation¹⁷⁶¹

¹⁷⁶¹ ταυτουργίαν.
in things of unlike nature, introduces at the same time a fusion of natures and a separation of persons,¹⁷⁶²

¹⁷⁶² διαίρεσιν προσωπικήν.
their natural existence¹⁷⁶³

¹⁷⁶³ ὑπάρξεως.
being made entirely undistinguishable by the transference of properties.¹⁷⁶⁴

¹⁷⁶⁴ ἱδιωμάτων.
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