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| From the Discourse on the Cross.
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III.
From the Discourse on the
Cross.3592
On these accounts He came to us; on these
accounts, though He was incorporeal, He formed for Himself a body after
our fashion,3593
| 3593 Or
“wove—a body from our material.” | —appearing as a sheep, yet still
remaining the Shepherd; being esteemed a servant, yet not renouncing
the Sonship; being carried in the womb of Mary, yet arrayed in
the nature of His Father; treading upon the earth, yet filling
heaven; appearing as an infant, yet not discarding the eternity of His
nature; being invested with a body, yet not circumscribing the unmixed
simplicity of His Godhead; being esteemed poor, yet not divested of His
riches; needing sustenance inasmuch as He was man, yet not ceasing to
feed the entire world inasmuch as He is God; putting on the likeness of
a servant, yet not impairing3594
the likeness of
His Father. He sustained every character3595
| 3595 Lit. “He was
everything.” |
belonging to Him in an immutable nature: He was standing
before Pilate, and at the same time was sitting with His Father;
He was nailed upon the tree, and yet was the Lord of all
things.
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