Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 5

A Discourse on the Three Stages of the Lord.

How is it that, while you are a believer, you are perplexed by the glorious and faithful word concerning Him who is separated for the Lord, the Sun of Heaven, and [the word] which leads to the Lord, the glorious King? And how, therefore, is there a dwelling with His body, as for the God who is in all, who put on a body, and [concerning] the three [stages] in which He willed to manifest from God, both for Him and for His body?

And this is easy to know, that in this way they are spoken of, even from the testimony of others, from one. For the Lord testifies concerning Christ, He who fell from the seed of the house of David original: "His name was called/fell", and he also said to him through the prophet Ephraim Ephrem the Syrian original: "through the prophet Ephraim", not by the hand, by the King of Judah. For the King shall go forth, and He shall shepherd the blessed people, and lead them out of the world, from the day of completion original: "completion/perfection" (Micah 5:2). But regarding the blessed house of Paul the Apostle Paul, that all the children of death were dead in truth, and all those who struggle of the spirit of all, and the writing of the spirit shall be [at peace], for they were resting from the rock of the spirit which was coming upon them. And the rock was Christ original: "1 Cor 10:4". Consider, therefore, how in Christ the Messiahship flows, in the union of the body original: "Unionem œconomicam" (Latin: economic union), the dwelling in which the life of God is full. Or is the full youth of the wool not so? For that which is from the house of the prophet, that which, as a man and from humanity, fell original: "fell/was named", from...

(1) Micah 5:2.
(2) 1 Cor. 10:4.
(3) Latin: economic union.
(4) For him, thus, by the existence.