Christ, therefore Cyril, De
Anath. 8 cont. Theod., is one, perfect God and perfect
man: and Him we worship along with the Father and the Spirit,
with one obeisance, adoring even His immaculate flesh and not holding
that the flesh is not meet for worship: for in fact it is
worshipped in the one subsistence of the Word, which indeed became
subsistence for it. But in this we do not do homage to that which
is created. For we worship Him, not as mere flesh, but as flesh
united with divinity, and because His two natures are brought under the
one person and one subsistence of God the Word. I fear to touch
coal because of the fire bound up with the wood. I worship the
twofold nature of Christ because of the divinity that is in Him bound
up with flesh. For I do not introduce a fourth person The Apollinarians
attacked the orthodox as ἀνθρωπολάτραι, man-worshippers, and as making the Trinity a Quaternity by
their doctrine of two perfect natures in Christ. See Greg.
Naz., Ep. 1 ad Cled.; Athanas., Ep. ad Epictet.;
Anastas. Antioch., De Operationibus; Cyril, Contr.
Nestor. 1. into the Trinity. God forbid! but
I confess one person of God the Word and of His flesh, and the Trinity
remains Trinity, even after the incarnation of the Word.