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caesa iaci Pontus,' near successor of the apostles, RH R in his discourso on tho Trini , speata thus:- I seo in ali three essentials-Substance, genus, name. We Speak of man, SerVant, curator seuratorem),man, is reason os substance; Servant, is reason os genus orcondition; curator, by reason os denomination. - speahalso of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: these, hoWever, arenot names Which have only superventa at some alter period, but they aro subsistences. Main, tho denomination ofrnan is not in actuat faci a denomination, but a substanco common to men, and is tho denomination proper to ali men. More Ver, names ara such as these,-Adam, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob: these, I say, ars names. But the Divino Persona arenam indred: and the names are stili tho persons; and tho mons then signisy that whicli is and subsisis, hich is tho senea os God. The name also of the naturo signifies subsistaneo ; as is Wo fhould speis of the man. Ni the persons Rre One nature, me essene' one Will, and are called tho Holy Trinity; and theso also ars names subsistent, one natum in three persons, and ono genus. But tho person of tho Son is composito in iis onenem stinita est), Ming one mado up of
Tho Arabio Codex reada falsely. Caesareae Cappadociae.' Or, the namo gignifiea tho subiastenoe of the nature-Nomen quoque --rae sim eat subsistentiam.
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constituto one. Yet the divinity does not consequently r ceive any increment, but the Trinity rem ains as it Was. Nor does anything nem besali the persons even or tho names, but theso are eternat and without time. No one, hoWever,
Was suffcient to know these untii tho Son boing mado fleshmanifested them, saying: Father, I havo manifested Thyname to men; glorisy Thou me also, that they may know moas Thy Son. y And on the mount the Faster spake, and said, This is my beloved Son.' And the fame sent HisHoly Spirit at the Jordan. And thus it was declared to usthat there is an Eternat Trinity in equat honour. Besides, the generation of the Son by the Father is incomprehensibio and ineffabie; and becauso it is spiritual, iis investigationbecomes impracticabie: for a spiritual object can neither beunderstood nor traced by a corporeal objeci, sor that is tarremoVed from human nature. We men know indoed thogeneration proper to us, as also that os other objecis; buta spirituat matter is above human condition, netther can itin any manner be understood by the minds of men. Spiritual substanco can neither perish nor bo dissolved; oura, hoWever, as is easy to undeditand, perishes and is dissolved.
tho deeps, whicli stretches beyond the north and solith, and whicli is present in every place, and filis ali vacuity Butis, indeed, Wo were able to scrutinige spiritual substance, iis excellence truly would be undone. Let us consider Whatis done in Our body; and, furthermore, let us see Whether itis in Our po er to ascertain in What manner thoughis are
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an indivisibis nature, and, together Mith tho Father, He is Without Monning. This Word took our substanco of the Virgin Mary; and in so far as Ho is spirituat indeed, Ηs is indivisibly equat with the Father; but in so sar as Ηs is corporeia, Hs is in lius manner inseparably equat With us. α again, in so sar as He is spiritual, Ho supplies in tho
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102 GREGORT THAUMAT GUS. naturo of tho Holy Τrintly beforo tho incarnation of tho Word, the Son; and the nature of the Trinity remained one also astor the incarnation of the Son. But is any one, moreoVer, belloves that any increment has been given to the Trini by reason os the assumption of humani by the Word, heis an alien hom us, and froni the ministry os the catholicand apostolic church. Τhis is the perfeci, holy, apostolicsaith of the holy God. Praiso to the Holy Trinity for everthrough tho ages of the agesi Amen.
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emptiod Himself and took the form os a servant, even as itis Written, let him be anathema.
How could tho flesli, whicli is conditioned by time, bo saidio bo consubstantial όμουσως) with the timetem divini lFor that is designated consubstantiat whicli is tho samo in
nature and in eternia duration Mithout variabienem.
ToPIo III. Is any ono affrms that Christ, just like one os the pr phela, assumed the perfeci man, and refuses to achnowledgethat, being begotten in tho flesti of tho Virgin, Ηρ becamoman and was born in Bethlehem, and was brought up in Nazareth, and advanced in age, and on completing the set number of years appeared in public and) was baptized in the Jordan, and received this testimony irom the Faster, This is my beloved Son,' even as it is written, let him bo
How could it bo said that Christ tho Lord assumed tho persect man just like one of the propheta, When He, beingilio Lord Himself, becamo man by the incarnation effected through tho Virgin ' Whorosore it is writton, that tho fidit
fidit Adam and tho last Adam.' M And is it is admittin that the second came by the first according to the flesh, sorwhicli reason also Christ is called man and the Son of man ;
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106 GREGORY THA UMATURGUS TOPIO VI. Is any ono amrms that Ηo Who suffered is one, and that
refuses to acknowledge tho one Lord Jesus Christ, even as itis Written, let him bo anathema.
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108 GREGORY THAUMAT GUSTOPIO XI. Is any ono assi s that tho body of Christ is volit os foui and understanding ἄψυχον και ἀνόητον , and refuses toachnowledge that He is persect man, Ons and the samo inali things With us), let him M anathema.