XVI.
And since some have given us trouble by attempting
to subvert our faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and by affirming of Him
that He was not God incarnated, but a man linked with God; for this
reason we present our confession on the subject of the aforementioned
matters of faith, and reject the faithless dogmas opposed
thereto. For God, having been incarnated in the flesh of man,
retains also His proper energy pure, possessing a mind unsubjected by
the natural341
and fleshly
affections, and holding the
flesh and the fleshly motions divinely and
sinlessly, and not only unmastered by the
power of
death, but even
destroying
death. And it is the true
God unincarnate that has
appeared incarnate, the
perfect One with the genuine and
divine
perfection; and in Him there are not two persons. Nor do
we
affirm that there are four
to
worship, viz.,
God and the Son of
God, and man and the Holy
Spirit. Wherefore we also anathematize those who show their
impiety in this, and who thus give the
man a place in the
divine
doxology. For we hold that the Word of
God was made man on
account of our
salvation, in order that we might receive the likeness
of the heavenly, and be made
divine342
after the likeness of Him who is the true
Son of
God by
nature, and the Son of man according to the flesh, our
Lord Jesus Christ.
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