II.—Fragments
Apparently of the Same Epistle of the Synod of Antioch;
To Wit, of that Part of It Which It is
Agreed that Eusebius Left Unnoticed.
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He says, therefore, in the commentaries (they speak of
Paul), that he maintains the dignity of wisdom.
And thereafter:
If, however, he had been united
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according to formation and generation,
this is what befalls the man.
And again
: For
that wisdom, as we believe, was not congenerate
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with humanity substantially, but
qualitatively.
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And thereafter:
In what respect, moreover, does he mean to allege
that the formation
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of
Christ is different and diverse from ours, when we hold that, in this
one thing of prime consequence, His constitution differs from ours, to
wit, that what in us is the interior man, is in Him the Word.
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And thereafter:
If he means to allege that Wisdom dwells in Him as
in no other, this expresses indeed the same mode of inhabitation,
though it makes it excel in respect of measure and multitude; He being
supposed to derive a superior knowledge from the Wisdom, say for
example, twice as large as others, or any other number of times as
large; or, again, it may be less than twice as large a knowledge as
others have. This, however, the catholic and ecclesiastical
canons disallow, and hold rather that other men indeed received of
Wisdom as an inspiration from without, which, though with them, is
distinct from them;
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but that Wisdom in verity came of itself substantially into His body by
Mary.
And after other matters:
And they hold that there are not two Sons. But if
Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and if Wisdom also is the Son of God;
and if the Wisdom is one thing and Jesus Christ another, there are two
Sons.
And thereafter:
Moreover understand (Paul would say) the union
with Wisdom in a different sense, namely as being one according to
instruction and participation;
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but not as if it were formed according to the substance in the
body.
And after other matters:
Neither was the God who bore the human body and
had assumed it, without knowledge
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of human affections
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in the first instance;
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nor was the human body without knowledge,
in the first instance, of divine operations in him in whom He (the God)
was, and by whom He wrought these operations. He was formed, in
the first instance, as man in the womb; and, in the second
instance,
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the God also was
in the womb, united essentially with the human,
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that is to say, His substance being
wedded with the man.
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In
Leontius of Byzantium, contra Nestor.
, book iii.,
towards the end.
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Copulatus erat.
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Congeneratum.
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Secundum qualitatem.
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Formationem.
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We say, that as the exterior and the interior man are one person,
so God the Word and humanity have been assumed as one person, a thing
which Paul denies.—
Can
.
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Alia est apud ipos.
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Secundum disciplinam et participationem.
Paul of Samosata
used to say that the humanity was united with the Wisdom as instruction
(
disciplina
) is united with the learner by
participation.—
Can
. [See Hooker,
book v. cap. 52, sec. 4.]
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Expers.
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Passionum
, sufferings.
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Principaliter.
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Secundario
, i.e.,
κατὰ
δεύτερον
λόγον
.—
Turrian
.
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συνουσιωμένος
τῷ
ἀνθρωπίνῳ
.