It is just as we said, then, in connection with
ignorance, that if you separate with subtle thoughts, that is, with
fine imaginings, the created from the uncreated, the flesh is a
servant, unless it has been united with God the Word Greg. Naz.,
Orat. 24.. But how can it be a servant when it
is once united in subsistence? For since Christ is one, He cannot
be His own servant and Lord. For these are not simple
predications but relative. Whose servant, then could He be?
His Father’s? The Son, then, would not have all the
Father’s attributes, if He is the Father’s servant and yet
in no respect His own. Besides, how could the apostle say
concerning us who were adopted by Him, So that you are no longer a
servant but a son Gal. iv. 7., if indeed He is
Himself a servant? The word servant, then, is used merely as a
title, though not in the strict meaning: but for our sakes He
assumed the form of a servant and is called a servant among us.
For although He is without passion, yet for our sake He was the servant
of passion and became the minister of our salvation. Those, then,
who say that He is a servant divide the one Christ into two, just as
Nestorius did. But we declare Him to be Master and Lord of all
creation, the one Christ, at once God and man, and all-knowing.
For in Him are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, the hidden
treasures Col. ii. 3..