The note of the
Benedictine Editors remarks that the French theologian Fronton du
Duc (Ducæus) accuses Theodoret (on Cyril’s Anath. vii.)
of misquoting St. Basil as writing here “God-bearing
man” instead of “God bearing flesh,” a term of
different signification and less open as a Nestorian
interpretation. “God-bearing,” θεοφόρος, was
an epithet applied to mere men, as, for instance, St.
Ignatius. So Clement of Alexandria, I. Strom. p. 318, and
Gregory of Nazianzus, Or. xxxvii. p. 609. St. Basil does use
the expression Jesus Christ ἄνθρωπον
Θεόν in Hom. on Ps. xlix.