Acts of the Martyrs and Saints, Volume 5

A Discourse on the Three Mysteries of Our Lord.

And this one descends, and makes the body as a union for the built body, as they say, how was everything created by the Christ? For everything was created in Him. But that, therefore, that those who shall be given the gifts of the body of that God-Word, that they should be from the mysteries, are good gifts to Him even while they persuade as true ones. For the sake of that, therefore, that one should speak that he divides. For our Lord is one in the Christ, and in His union all the mysteries [are] all. Let them be, therefore, created divinely, and quickeners as the living original: "Life" (Vita), while they shall be one, from those who by likeness were separated and from those who by distinction. For they shall be prayed [to] as of God and of man, as they all say. For in His body they shall be God, not from that which has no body. And truly as man, not from the power of the soul. That not while the Word (Word?) as if they shall be, if there was a name. For it is right, that Jesus Christ was spoken of and today, He while He is and forever.

Word. And if we believe so, that after the holy [time] He put on the glory of God, in the descending time of the Word, His servitude, how is this not true? For this which was spoken of and today, O Word who gave to Christ, concerning this time which is now in which they are enlightened, and concerning that which blesses, [He] blesses. How then is He while He shall be in that which is created, [He] who blesses, while as yet He was not born in a body?

(1) Vita (Life).
(2) Verbum (Word).
(3) Hebrew.