25. Shall any one, then, follow this law,
whereby the Council of Ariminum is confirmed, wherein Christ was said
to be a creature. But say they: “God sent forth His
Son, made of a woman, made under the law.” Gal. iv. 4. And so they say
“made,” that is, “created.” Do they not
consider these very words which they have brought forward; that Christ
is said to have been made, but of a woman; that is, He was
“made” as regards his birth from a Virgin, Who was begotten
of the Father as regards His divine generation? Have they read
also to-day, “that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us”? Gal. iii. 13.
Was Christ a curse in His Godhead? But why He is called a curse
the Apostle tells us, saying that it is written: “Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree,” Gal. iii. 13. that is, He Who in his flesh bore our
flesh, in His body bore our infirmities and our curses, that He might
crucify them; for He was not cursed Himself, but was cursed in
thee. So it is written elsewhere: “Who knew no sin,
but was made sin for us, for He bore our sins, 2 Cor. v. 21.
that he might destroy them by the Sacrament of His
Passion.”