The Co-Creator and Shared Divinity
He made them male and female (Genesis 1:27). Therefore, the significance of the 'let us make' signifies being a co-creator and introduces a co-attendant.
For just as God the Father is the one who said, 'let us make man' (Genesis 1:26), so God is also toward whom the 'let us make' was spoken, being of one divinity of both persons: both the one saying, 'let us make man in our image and likeness' (Genesis 1:26), and the one making the man.
For the voice of 'let us make' presents the most holy and unchangeable divinity of the Father and the Son, as being the same as the divinity of the one who makes; for the image of God is simple and indivisible, being fire by nature.
Greek
αὐτὸν, ἄρρεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησε αὐτούς. Ἡ οὖν τοῦ ποιήσωμεν σημασία τὸ εἶναι πρόσωπον συνδημιουργὸν σημαίνει καὶ συνισοπροσήγορον εἰσάγει. Ὡς γὰρ Θεὸς ὁ Πατήρ ἐστιν ὁ εἰπών· ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον, οὕτω Θεός ἐστι καὶ πρὸς ὃν τὸ ποιήσωμεν εἴρηκε, μιᾶς οὔσης τῆς τῶν ἀμφοτέρων προσώπων θεότητος, τοῦ τε εἰπόντος· ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον κατ' εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθ' ὁμοίωσιν, καὶ τοῦ ποιήσαντος τὸν ἄνθρωπον. Τὸ γὰρ ποιήσωμεν τὸ πανάγιον καὶ ἀπαράλλακτον τῆς τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ Υἱοῦ θεότητος παρίστησιν ἡ φωνή· ἡ γὰρ τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰκὼν ἁπλῆ καὶ ἀσύνθετός ἐστι, πῦρ οὖσα τῇ φύσει.
About this text
Eustathius on the creation account in Genesis.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 18 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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