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In that form in which He came.
This word, however, is exalted
and filled with light, and it is simple
to the understanding of one who loves God.
I wished to interpret it a little,
fittingly and properly, and to teach.
Be careful of that which Saint Ephrem said,
"In that form in which He came."
And he spoke it simply,
and he uttered it,
so that one might see therein how He came.
Let us listen to the word that interprets
this word of joy
of Saint Ephrem. He says, indeed, "In that form."
And he knows that in "that form"
there is nothing new.
And the Interpreter referring to a teacher or commentator, likely a reference to a known exegetical tradition comes at this time,
and he says, "The teacher [teaches] the one creation,
the world of the body,
in the likeness of man," he says of the world.
He compares it to the eyes in this,
as the word that put on a body,
which is exalted. The first word
in this form
it put on; but in this body
the word is filled with something corporeal,
because of the body, which is a new body
for the world. And it has joy
in that it shines from holiness.
This which shines from holiness, as
a word, it is exalted.
And there is a word for glory,
and it is unified. And from it came light,
like the word that shines. And it
shines, that which shines something in [the] hands,
something. And like the teacher in that
which Ephrem said, "unitedly,"
as light from light, and breath
from man, something in the hands it has,
the word; and it is a new word.

A new body in which He came.
And our Lord went and spoke in this,
in that word. And from the existence
of the glory of the world, and it did not
come, the humanity of Christ, from
without anything. And there is nothing
that serves except in it. And it is
firm and true, and fittingly.
You see the word that is unified,
the light that is in unity, it shines
as. And simply, as it was served,
the light, as. From it went forth a new
and perfect meaning. In that
God came to gladden the creation
in the form of one body, and it turns
to the world. That in it shines, that the
creation [is] from holiness. And man, who is
of the body, shines from the light. And how
does the light deliver in our Lord in joy
from the evil to the Christian stewardship?
That without light, that this of man
that has new, one in unity.
And He is the speaker, our Lord the Savior,
in this unity. And these of ours
are firm, the breath of the body.
And the word is, our Lord, the word whose hands
are this. And the word goes forth in the meaning
of the oikonomia stewardship/administration of the Godhead. To the world
not a body unified
in the form of joy. And it became unified
that it might shine from the side of the word.
And simply in this, that of unity,
in the form of the body, how
God came to gladden the creation.
He is the speaker, that the body [is] one thing
that has the unity of the body. It turns
in one of them to the one who is unified.
It turns, the light in unity, unified
to the oikonomia stewardship/administration. And nothing
is firm from the side of the word. It turns,
the light from the side of the word. It turns,

it has joy for the creation.
In hearing, one turns, that it
[is] from the glory that it serves.
And our Lord went as in this form,
and it has the joy of the new body.
And he says, "And it does not shine from
that which shines unitedly." And how
is it not the word of the light that shines?
He comes to interpret in that which he said,
"In the body that is full of light."
That to the world, one turns in that which came.
The body that did not go forth from it, and to it
it serves in the Godhead in a new
joy. And in it goes forth the oikonomia stewardship/administration
in that in which it turns. And it has,
this word, the oikonomia stewardship/administration that it put on.
In it, the Godhead [is] unified
to the world in that oikonomia stewardship/administration. That it
[is] something in which came the humanity of Christ.
It turns, the light from holiness,
and to the body in that which came the oikonomia stewardship/administration
and to the world, one turns in that.
And the oikonomia stewardship/administration that is unified, it turns
that it turns in that. That He is the Word, He is
of the new body. And He is the Word, He is
of the new body... The scribe repeats the phrase "And He is the Word, He is of the new body" numerous times, likely due to a copying error or a lacuna in the source manuscript. ...of the new body.