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Chapter
34.—The Ineffable Mystery of the Birth of Christ the Mediator
Through the Virgin Mary.
Now of this Mediator it would
occupy too much space to say anything at all worthy of Him; and,
indeed, to say what is worthy of Him is not in the power of man.
For who will explain in consistent words this single statement,
that “the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,”1146
so that we
may believe on the only Son of God the Father Almighty, born of the
Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary. The meaning of the Word being made
flesh, is not that the divine nature was changed into flesh, but
that the divine nature assumed our flesh. And by “flesh” we are
here to understand “man,” the part being put for the whole, as
when it is said: “By the deeds of the law shall no flesh be
justified,”1147
that is,
no man. For we must believe that no part was wanting in that human
nature which He put on, save that it was a nature wholly free from
every taint of sin,—not such a nature as is conceived between the
two sexes through carnal lust, which is born in sin, and whose
guilt is washed away in regeneration; but such as it behoved a
virgin to bring forth, when the mother’s faith, not her lust, was
the condition of conception. And if her virginity had been marred
even in bringing Him forth, He would not have been born of a
virgin; and it would be false (which God forbid) that He was born
of the Virgin Mary, as is believed and declared by the whole
Church, which, in imitation of His mother, daily brings forth
members of His body, and yet remains a virgin. Read, if you please,
my letter on the virginity of the holy Mary which I sent to that
eminent man, whose name I mention with respect and affection,
Volusianus.1148
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