Disputationis contra Ebionitas, Iesu Christi Domini nostri deitatem negantes & philou anthrōpou eum esse fingentes sōmatopoiēsis

On the contrary, the true and rightly thinking Church recognizes and confesses in Christ the theanthrōpō God-man two natures, divine and human, personally united. For just as a Man is composed not only of an organic body but also of an intelligent soul: so the Church is rightly and piously persuaded that the Person of Jesus Christ consists of two Natures, divine and human.

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The spirit therefore moves, for the glory of Jesus Christ and the instruction of pious minds, to lay down a foundation, not only golden but clearly divine, for this disputation against the Ebionites: John 1:14, kai ho logos sarx egeneto And that Word became Flesh. The paraphrastic exposition of this Oracle is to be sought from the words of Paul, Phil. 2:6-8: Jesus Christ, when he was in the form of God, did not count it robbery to be equal with God: 7. But he emptied himself, having taken the form of a servant, being made similar to men: and being found in habit as a man.

The subject is: That Word, which is the eternal Son of God, and in the form of God, is equal to the Father and the Holy Spirit, kai homoousios and of one essence.

The predicate is: He became Flesh, that is, he assumed the servant's form.