II.
But the Church’s Confession, and the Creed
that brings salvation to the world, is that which deals with the
incarnation of the Word, and bears that He gave Himself over to the
flesh of man which He acquired of Mary, while yet He conserved His own
identity, and sustained no divine transposition or mutation, but was
brought into conjunction with the flesh after the similitude of man; so
that the flesh was made one with the divinity, the divinity having
assumed the capacity of receiving the flesh in the fulfilling of the
mystery. And after the dissolution of death there remained to the
holy flesh a perpetual impassibility and a changeless immortality,
man’s original glory being taken up into it again by the power of
the divinity, and being ministered then to all men by the appropriation
of faith.
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