6. But, as we pointed out in the former
books, they seize the Dispensation of the assumed manhood as a pretext
to dishonour His divinity, and distort the Mystery of our salvation
into an occasion of blasphemy. Had they held fast the faith of
the Apostle, they would neither have forgotten that He, Who was in the
form of God, took the form of a servant, nor made use of the
servant’s form to dishonour the form of God (for the form of God
includes the fulness of divinity), but they would have noted,
reasonably and reverently, the distinction of occasions i.e. the
occasions when Christ was speaking of His humanity and those when He
was referring to His divine nature. and mysteries, without dishonouring the
divinity, or being misled by the Incarnation of Christ. But now,
when we have, I am convinced, proved everything to the utmost, and
pointed out the power of the divine nature underlying the birth of the
assumed body, there is no longer room for doubt. He Who was at
once man and the Only-begotten God performed all things by the power of
God, and in the power of God accomplished all things through a true
human nature. As begotten of God He possessed the nature of
divine omnipotence, as born of the Virgin He had a perfect and entire
humanity. Though He had a real body, He subsisted in the nature
of God, and though He subsisted in the nature of God, He abode in a
real body.