55. The Apostle has herein held fast to the canon
of his faith, by teaching that the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in
Christ bodily; and this, in order that the teaching of the faith might
not degenerate into an unholy profession of a oneness of Persons or
sinful frenzy break forth into the belief of two different
natures. For the fulness of Godhead which dwells in Christ in
bodily fashion is neither solitary nor separable; for the fulness in
bodily form does not admit any partition from the other bodily fulness,
and the indwelling Godhead cannot be regarded as also the
dwelling-place of the Godhead. And Christ is so constituted that
the fulness of Godhead dwells in Him in bodily fashion, and that this
fulness must be held one in nature with Christ. Lay hands on
every chance that offers for your quibbles, sharpen the points of your
blasphemous wit. Name, at least, the imaginary being whose
fulness of Godhead it is which dwells in Christ in bodily
fashion. For He is Christ, and there is dwelling in Him in bodily
fashion the fulness of Godhead.