Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 5

Demonstration Regarding the Humanity of Our Lord.

To Him who is from the heights of the house of David: to Him who is from praised Nazareth: to Him whom that miracle brought forth as a human being: and whose nature is as a secret, by the perfection of the image: to Him in whom angels and the children of men rejoice: to Him who speaks by the power of the King of Waters a metaphorical reference to Christ's divinity or the source of life: in the nature of the Life-giver and the Living One: in the nature of the Son of God, powerfully being made weak. While we do not divide His humanity from His divinity, nor again do we separate His divinity from His humanity, after that union which is unutterable and exceeds all understanding. But He is one, while He is the Son from two natures, from humanity and from divinity, eternally as He is, invisible: in a singular unity, and there is no monarchia sovereignty/singular rule among the sons.

Demonstration. In this doctrine, however, as it is for the power of our faith: that we confess the union of Christ while we say, that whoever believes that the Unique One is in two natures, God shall be in Him, and He in God original: "1 John 4:15". The Unique One is Christ, He who in body is from David, in nature and in truth is the Son of God, in that which we say the Word of God testifies. The blessed John testifies when we say: You shall acknowledge the Mother of God, and He has given us the Son who is the Life-giving God: and as truly as Christ is born in the flesh, so He is God in the flesh and living forever original: "1 John 5:20". In His hand...