13. We are not, then, to suppose that the
Father Who raised the flesh is alone [God]; nor, again, are we to
suppose the like of the Son, Whose Body
“Body”—in the orig.
“templum.” Cf. 1 Cor. vi. 19.
was raised again. He Who raised, did surely also quicken; and He
who quickened, also pardoned sins; He who pardoned sins, also blotted
out the handwriting; He Who blotted out the handwriting, also nailed it
to the Cross: He who nailed it to the Cross, divested Himself of
the flesh. But it was not the Father Who divested Himself of the
flesh; for not the Father, but, as we read, the Word was made
flesh. S. John i. 14. You see,
then, that the Arians, in dividing the Father from the Son, run into
danger of saying that the Father endured the Passion.