Section 9

About this work

Author: Gregory Thaumaturgus

Topic IX.

If any one says that Christ suffers

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change

or

alteration

,

and

refuses

to

acknowledge

that

He

is

unchangeable

in

the

Spirit

,

though

corruptible

in

the

flesh

,

let

him

be

anathema

.

Explication.

How could one say that Christ suffers change or alteration, when the Lord Himself says, “I am and change not;” again, “His soul shall not be left in Hades, neither shall His flesh see corruption?”

Notes

1
John ii. 20, 21.
2
[Christ’s flesh being incorruptible, transubstantiation cannot be true: the holy food is digested in its material part.]
3
Mal. iii. 6.
4
Ps. xvi. 10; Acts ii. 31.