And we confess also that there is one incarnate nature of God the Word, expressing by the word “incarnate Expositio fidei a Patribus Nicænis contra Paul. Samos.III. p. conc. Ephes.” the essence of the flesh, according to the blessed Cyril Commonit. ad Eulog. et Epist. 2 ad Success.; cf. supr. ch. vi. et infr. ch. xi.. And so the Word was made flesh and yet did not abandon His own proper immateriality: He became wholly flesh and yet remained wholly uncircumscribed. So far as He is body He is diminished and contracted into narrow limits, but inasmuch as He is God He is uncircumscribed, His flesh not being coextensive with His uncircumscribed divinity.