Fragment VII

VII.

On the Nature of Christ. ³⁶³⁵

For there is no need, to persons of intelligence, to attempt to prove, from the deeds of Christ subsequent to His baptism, that His soul and His body, His human nature ³⁶³⁶ like ours, were real, and no phantom of the imagination.  For the deeds done by Christ after His baptism, and especially His miracles, gave indication and assurance to the world of the Deity hidden in His flesh.  For, being at once both God and perfect man likewise, He gave us sure indications of His two natures: ³⁶³⁷   of His Deity, by His miracles during the three years that elapsed after His baptism; of His humanity, during the thirty similar periods which preceded His baptism, in which, by reason of His low estate ³⁶³⁸ as regards the flesh, He concealed the signs of His Deity, although He was the true God existing before all ages.

Footnotes

760:3635

In Anastasius of Sinai, The Guide, ch. 13.

760:3636

Or, according to Migne’s punctuation, “His soul, and the body of His human nature.”  The words are, τὸ ἀληθὲς καὶ ἀφάνταστον τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ σώματος τῆς καθ᾽ ἡμᾶς ἀνθρωπινῆς φύσεως.

760:3637

Οὐσίας.  [Comp. note 13, infra.]

760:3638

Τὸ ἀτέλες.