Repetitio et Dilvcidior Explicatio Consensvs Veteris Orthodoxae Catholicaeque Christi Ecclesiae in doctrina prophetica & apostolica, de inconfusis proprietatibus naturarum Christi Domini, in vna indiuisa persona permanentibus adeoque de veritate carnis Christi ad dexteram Dei patris, in coelo sedentis & non ubique praesentis

REPETITIO ET DILVCID.

the terms Indivisible, Inseparable, Unconfused, Differences, which indeed have their foundation in the holy scriptures.

Communication of idioms. Because of this union, which we have called hypostatic, these forms of speech exist which antiquity said are made through the communication of idioms. Damascenus calls it ἀντιδόσεως τρόπον the manner of exchange, that is, a certain mode of mutual attribution. By the same author it is called ἀλλοίωσις alloeosis, an alteration or change, when, namely, the property which is proper to one nature is communicated to the other. These forms of speech fit the mystery of the incarnation, and this cannot be explained, and thus shadowed forth, better than through these, which in itself is otherwise admirable. Thus we say God was both born and crucified and died.

Not that God in his own nature, which is inconvertible, is born, crucified, or dies: but that Christ, who in one person has two natures, was born, crucified, and died, for that nature which could be born, suffer, and die. Again, those things which are proper to the divine nature are attributed to the person of Christ. For the Son of Man in the Gospel is said to have ascended into heaven, where he was before: not that the Son of Man was in his body in heaven before he had assumed a body, and had ascended by this, but that Christ, who in one person has two natures, was in heaven before the ascension for that nature, which was there, or rather was everywhere, before the bodily ascension

God born and dead.