Therefore, God the Word Greg. Naz., Carm. sen. adv. Apollin., Epist. ad Cled., and elsewhere., wishing to restore that which was in His own image, became man. But what is that which was in His own image, unless mind? So He gave up the better and assumed the worse. For mind See also ch. 6 above, and Gregory’s lines against the Apollinarians. is in the border-land between God and flesh, for it dwells indeed in fellowship with the flesh, and is, moreover, the image of God. Mind, then, mingles with mind, and mind holds a place midway between the pureness of God and the denseness of flesh. For if the Lord assumed a soul without mind, He assumed the soul of an irrational animal.