We, however, do not give it as our view that
Christ’s nature is compound, nor yet that He is one thing made of
other things and differing from them as man is made of soul and body,
or as the body is made of the four elements, but hold Ibid. p.
286. that, though He is constituted of these
different parts He is yet the same ἐξ
ἑτέρων τὰ
αὐτά. Cod. R. 3
reads ταῦτα. See also
Cyril, Ep. 2 ad Success.. For
we confess that He alike in His divinity and in His humanity both is
and is said to be perfect God, the same Being, and that He consists of
two natures, and exists in two natures Cf.
Niceph. Call., Hist. xviii. 46.. Further, by the word
“Christ” we understand the name of the subsistence, not in
the sense of one kind, but as signifying the existence of two
natures. For in His own person He anointed Himself; as God
anointing His body with His own divinity, and as Man being
anointed. For He is Himself both God and Man. And the
anointing is the divinity of His humanity. For if Christ, being
of one compound nature, is of like essence to the Father, then the
Father also must be compound and of like essence with the flesh, which
is absurd and extremely blasphemous Eulog. apud
Max., t. ii. p. 145..