О вочеловечении
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1. He is unreasonable who does not give equal Divine honor to the King, the ever-bearing Word of God, with the heavenly Father; The one who does not give equal Divine honor to the heavenly Word to the King-Word, who appeared on earth in human form, is also unreasonable, but separates either the Word from the great Father, or from the Word the human image and our dullness. Why was the word God, but became our man, so that, uniting with the earthly, he could unite God with us. To both it is one God; Because man, because he makes me a god from a man. Be merciful to me, the Almighty, who was angry for me!
I can only tell you. Will you also ask me about the mind, about the ineffable unity? But when discussing God, mortals, love moderation in words! If I convinced you, good! And if you continue to blacken the paper with many thousands of verses; then in a few verses I will inscribe these letters, on your tablets, with my writing, on which there is nothing black.
2. We know that the highest Mind has composed all human nature from three component parts: the soul, the mind and the plump body. And at first He created the whole Adam, except for sin. And when man did not become God, God himself, in my honor, became a perfect man, so that by means of what he had received, by recreating what was given, he would destroy the condemnation of total sin, and through the One who died, he would kill the one who killed. God is simple from the beginning; then paired with humanity, and then nailed down by deicide hands; - such is your teaching about God who has entered into unity with us! God's Word, like the Father, was from the beginning God, the Creator of all things, above time and suffering and the body. When a person is struck by the tree of knowledge, and envy has attacked our entire nature, as if it were perceptible and subject to condemnation; then, in order to demolish the exaltation of envy and recreate the damaged image, God's Word is born for us; for it is conceived in the pure Virgin, and God comes into the world, the whole God and man, who saves the whole me, the Son, both intuited and visible.
In your opinion, I am a man-worshipper, because I honor the whole, mysterious Word united with me, the only God-man Savior. And you (by the way, I will turn your own wit against you), you are a worshiper of the flesh, because you introduce a person who has no mind. Either agree on this, my dear, or condescend to me, if you only want to be a fair judge in words!
If the worst in man (because the flesh is much worse than what is created in the image of God) for you is God from God; then I recognize the best; because the mind is closer to God. Moreover, you put one half of the person in danger; because what is not received by the Word is not saved. What are you saying, wise defender of the Word, who takes up arms against those who dissect the Divinity? And don’t you yourself dissect what God has put together? You give Him one of my constituent parts, but not the other; you bring the flesh into unity with Him, but cut off the mind, as if you were afraid that a whole person would not be formed. You reason: how can one person contain two perfect ones? Is there really a danger that the fur will break through? What foolishness! One soul contains both mind and word.
Again you ask: why is the mind so necessary and important for you where God himself is? - But if in Him the flesh is without mind; then I'm deceived. My skin; but whose soul is it? What does the birth of God from the Virgin mean? How did distant natures come together? - It's a secret; but as it seems to me, measuring with a small mind what exceeds the mind, the cleansing Spirit descended on the Virgin, and the Word Himself created a person in her, a complete replacement for the entire deceased person. since God is not united with the flesh, and the soul and mind are something in between, because they coexist with the flesh, and because they are the image of God: then God’s nature, uniting with what is akin to Himself, through this akin, entered into communion with the whiteness of the flesh. Thus, both the Deified and the Deified are one God. Therefore, what did both endure? As I reason, One entered into fellowship with the stout, and the other, like the stout, shared my weaknesses, except the infirmity of sin.
I ask: to whom was the blood of God shed? If it be the evil one, then alas! The blood of Christ was given to the author of evil. And if to God; then why was this necessary when another took possession of us, but the ransom is always given to the owner? Of course, there is no doubt that Christ offers Himself to God in order for Him to snatch us away from Him who possessed us, and so that the anointed one would be accepted in place of the fallen one, because the Anointing One is elusive. So let's talk about this. But we also respect images. I said my thought. Worship the Trinity!
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