VI.
Moreover, the capital element of our salvation is the
incarnation of the Word. We believe, therefore, that it was without any change
in the Divinity that the incarnation of the Word took place with a view
to the renewal of humanity. For there took place neither mutation
nor transposition, nor any circumscription in will,289
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as regards the holy energy
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of
God; but while that remained in itself
the same, it also effected the
work of the
incarnation with a view to
the
salvation of the
world: and the Word of
God, living
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on
earth after man’s fashion,
maintained likewise in all the
divine presence, fulfilling all things,
and being united
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properly and
individually with
flesh; and while the sensibilities proper to the
flesh were there, the
divine energy maintained the impassibility
proper to itself. Impious, therefore, is the man who introduces
the passibility
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into the
energy. For the
Lord of
glory appeared in fashion as a man when
He undertook the
economy294
upon the
earth; and He fulfilled the
law for men by His
deeds, and by
His sufferings He did away with man’s sufferings, and by His
death He
abolished death, and by his resurrection He brought
life to
light; and now we look for His appearing from
heaven in glory for the
life and judgment of all, when the resurrection of the dead shall take
place, to the end that recompense may be made to all according to their
desert.
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