Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 5

A Discourse on the Mind of the Lord.

God in His being is God full of all good things; and as one who is from the greatness of rest, that there is no beginning to His divinity nor completion like His desires, even in the descent of His division original: "division/partition", He took this name, God full [of all], who is called Jesus Christ. For from this body by great power (which no one can compare to Him). Understand, therefore, that concerning Christ Jesus He said all of it, that He has a subsistence and exists and [is] forever; and it did not happen downward upon God, who is full. How then is there not the completion of the life in the Son of Man, and how is the search not completed? For we are in the completion of the man, and before all times, that when he does not exist he is created and comes to life. Does it not bring forth the truth of the word of man, that God who has not, is not [it] happened, [He who] says that He exists from Himself? See how he who lies in this, he who testifies of the great man concerning his own [self], that Christ Jesus is the one who has subsistence. But in His division and His incompleteness of the full God who lives, I say that you [should] have, if there was a thing. We say then, that through the union of the Son of His body, as He who has in His being from Himself He was in the administration. And the first, the expectation of the hidden [one], was from His word, and all of His inheritance was; [He] whose form one cannot understand. For it happened again, that the good Son Christ was like a man...

(1) Of his partition.
(2) That he compared, Lord. Latin: A nobis ostensum est (It has been shown by us).