The Attributes of the Logos

Separating himself, this is the treasure of the paternal goodness and everlasting blessedness. This is the water of life and the life being granted to the world. This is the uncreated ray, born from the fore-light of the sun, but not being severed

This is the God-Logos, having composed all things into being by word alone from non-being into being. This is the Phosphoros, having arranged the incorporeal powers of the heavenly, incorporeal, invisible hosts and ranks before the Phosphoros. This is the one who stretched out the heaven alone and walks upon the sea as if upon dry land. This is the one who shrouded the abyss with mist. This is the one who made the earth firm upon the waters. This is the one who enclosed the sea with sand. This is the one who distinguished the light from the darkness. This is the one who arranged the circular ornamentation of the stars. This is the one who composed the whole visible and intelligible cosmos in wisdom.

This is the one who, with unhandy hands, fashioned and shaped man from clay. This is the one who created us according to the image of God, and now himself, according to the image, having become man. Man, but indeed also the same God.

Man is the visible, entirely as I myself am with them, so that having cleansed me he might save me; God is the intelligible, possessing the essence from a perfect and perfect Father. He, existing in the form of God, has now taken my form in a masterly way as a slave, not diminishing the dignity of divinity, but sanctifying the essence of my nature.

Wholly above and wholly below, the same being known, having been born above without time and below without seed; a maker of the things above as God and a creature of the things below as man. Listen to these things, all you nations; listen, O Israel. The Lord your God, this is He, whom I, your priest Simeon, bearing in my arms, proclaim with a great voice, testifying to the people in the temple. Therefore pay attention, my people, to my word; incline the ear of you to the words of my mouth.

This child is the one about whom Isaiah proclaimed, saying, 'A child is born to us, a son is given to us, and his name is called, of great counsel (of the Father), Angel, Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Ruler, O Israel, Prince of Peace, Father of the age to come' (Isaiah 9:6). If then this child is a Mighty God, it is evident concerning Him that David said, 'The God of gods shall be seen in Zion' (Psalm 89:12). Concerning this child Jeremiah cries out: 'That God appeared upon the earth and with men walked' (Jeremiah 24:7).

This child is the one who of old for Israel split the sea and sank Pharaoh, and gave the law to the Israelites and rained down manna, and led the race of the Hebrews by a pillar of fire, and guarded the bush of the burning flame that was unconsumed by throwing rock. This child made Moses a slayer of the Egyptian people for forty years, and raised up a shepherd of sheep for forty years, and established a leader for Israel for forty years, and was able to fast for forty days, just as this child himself, after the baptism, fasted for forty days, and after the forty days of the resurrection from the dead, has ascended into the upper Jerusalem and after [...]