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Twelve Topics on the Faith

Gregory Thaumaturgus

Section 2

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Author: Gregory Thaumaturgus

Topic II.

If any one affirms that the flesh

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of

Christ

is

consubstantial

with

the

divinity

,

and

refuses

to

acknowledge

that

He

,

subsisting

Himself

in

the

form

of

God

as

God

before

all

ages

,

emptied

Himself

and

took

the

form

of

a

servant

,

even

as

it

is

written

,

let

him

be

anathema

.

Explication.

How could the flesh, which is conditioned by time, be said to be consubstantial with the timeless divinity? For that is designated consubstantial which is the same in nature and in eternal duration without variableness.

Notes

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ὁμοουσιος.