Athanasius anathemas; Atticus on kenosis
remaining beyond death’s grasp because of the deity.
“But if anyone teaches otherwise from the divine Scriptures — saying one son of God and another, the human from Mary made a son by grace as we are, so that there are two sons, one Son of God by nature from God, and one by grace, the human from Mary — or if anyone says our Lord’s flesh is from above and not from the virgin Mary, or that the deity was turned into flesh, or confused, or altered, or passible, or that our Lord’s flesh is not to be worshiped as a human’s flesh, and not worshipable as the flesh of Lord and God — the holy catholic church anathematizes that person, persuaded by the divine apostle who says, ‘If anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be anathema.’” (Galatians 1:9)
So much for the blessed Athanasius. I think I should also set beside him voices of other holy bishops with the same aim.
From bishop Atticus: “Today Christ the Master took on the birth that belongs to love of humankind; the worth of deity was already his.” Then he adds again: “The Word of love for humankind is emptied, though his nature cannot be emptied; for he emptied himself, taking a slave’s form. The fleshless one is enfleshed for you; for the Word became flesh. He who cannot be touched, because his nature is bodiless, is handled. The one without beginning comes under a bodily beginning. The perfect one grows. The unchangeable advances. The rich one is born in an inn. He who wraps the heaven in clouds is wrapped in swaddling cloths.” (Philippians 2:7) (John 1:14)
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About this text
Cyril’s court treatise on right faith for Arcadia and Marina (CPG 5219). One Son, Word made flesh — not two Christs. English from Pusey’s Greek.
English follows Pusey’s 1877 Greek of De recta fide ad Arcadiam et Marinam. OCR of that print was cleaned section by section before Pass A/B. This is a reading translation for study, not a new critical edition.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Pusey, De recta fide ad reginas (Oxford, 1877) (Greek · CPG 5219 §§1–100)
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