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VII.
On the Nature of Christ.3635
For there is no need, to persons of intelligence,
to attempt to prove, from the deeds of Christ subsequent to His
baptism, that His soul and His body, His human nature3636
3636 Or, according to
Migne’s punctuation, “His soul, and the body of His human
nature.” The words are, τὸ ἀληθὲς
καὶ
ἀφάνταστον
τῆς ψυχῆς
αὐτοῦ καὶ
τοῦ σώματος
τῆς καθ᾽
ἡμᾶς
ἀνθρωπινῆς
φύσεως. | like ours, were real, and no phantom
of the imagination. For the deeds done by Christ after His
baptism, and especially His miracles, gave indication and assurance to
the world of the Deity hidden in His flesh. For, being at once
both God and perfect man likewise, He gave us sure indications of His
two natures:3637
3637 Οὐσίας.
[Comp. note 13, infra.] | of His
Deity, by His miracles during the three years that elapsed after His
baptism; of His humanity, during the thirty similar periods
which preceded His baptism, in which, by reason of His low
estate3638 as regards
the flesh, He concealed the signs of His Deity, although He was the
true God existing before all ages.
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