12. But you read in another place:
“Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.” Is. ix. 6. In the word Child is an indication
of age, in that of Son the fulness of the Godhead. Made of His
mother, born of the Father yet the Same Person was both born and given,
you must not think of two but of one. For one is the Son of God,
both born of the Father and sprung from the Virgin, differing in order,
but in name agreeing in one, as, too, the lesson just heard teaches for
“a man was made in her and the Most High Himself established
her;” Ps. lxxxvii.
[lxxxvi.] 5. man indeed in
the body, the Most High in power. And though He be God and man in
diversity of nature, yet is He at the same time one in each
nature. One property, then, is peculiar to His own nature,
another He has in common with us, but in both is He one, and in both is
He perfect.