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Chapter VII.—The Works of
Christ, Proper to God and to Man, the Works of Him Who is
One.
And now we seem to have said almost enough on the
fact that man has become the organ and clothing of the Only-begotten,
and what He was who came to dwell in him. But the fact that there
is no moral inequality or discord2567
may again be considered briefly from the
beginning. For he speaks well who says that that is in its own
nature good and righteous and holy, by participation of which other
things become good, and that wisdom is in connection with2568
| 2568
Here, as in the previous chapter, and in many other passages, I
have preferred the text of Jahn to that of Migne, as
being generally the more accurate.—Tr. | God, and that,
on the other hand, sin is unholy and unrighteous and evil. For
life and death, corruption and incorruption, are two things in the
highest degree opposed to each other. For life is a moral
equality, but corruption an inequality; and righteousness and prudence
a harmony, but unrighteousness and folly a discord. Now, man
being between these is neither righteousness itself, nor
unrighteousness; but being placed midway between incorruption and
corruption, to whichever of these he may incline is said to partake of
the nature of that which has laid hold of him. Now, when he
inclines to corruption, he becomes corrupt and mortal, and when to
incorruption, he becomes incorrupt and immortal. For, being
placed midway between the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, of the Fruit of which he tasted,2569
he was changed into the nature of the
latter, himself being neither the tree of life nor that of corruption;
but having been shown forth as mortal, from his participation in and
presence with corruption, and, again, as incorrupt and immortal by
connection with and participation in life; as Paul also taught, saying,
“Corruption shall not inherit incorruption, nor death
life,”2570
rightly defining
corruption and death to be that which corrupts and kills, and not that
which is corrupted and dies; and incorruption and life that which gives
life and immortality, and not that which receives life and
immortality. And thus man is neither a discord and an inequality,
nor an equality and a harmony. But when he received discord,
which is transgression and sin, he became discordant and unseemly; but
when he received harmony, that is righteousness, he became a harmonious
and seemly organ, in order that the Lord, the Incorruption which
conquered death, might harmonize the resurrection with the flesh, not
suffering it again to be inherited by corruption. And on this
point also let these statements suffice.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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