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Chapter XXII.—Concerning His
growth.
He is, moreover, said to grow in wisdom and age
and grace2212
, increasing in
age indeed and through the increase in age manifesting the wisdom that
is in Him2213
| 2213 Athanas., Contr.
Arian., bk. iv.; Greg. Naz., Ep. I. ad Cled.,
and Orat. 20; Cyril, Contr. Nest., bk. iii.; Greg.
Nyss., Contr. Apoll., II. 28, &c. | ; yea, further,
making men’s progress in wisdom and grace, and the fulfilment of
the Father’s goodwill, that is to say, men’s knowledge of
God and men’s salvation, His own increase, and everywhere taking
as His own that which is ours. But those who hold that He
progressed in wisdom and grace in the sense of receiving some addition
to these attributes, do not say that the union took place at the first
origin of the flesh, nor yet do they give precedence to the union in
subsistence, but giving heed2214
| 2214 Text has πείθομαι:
surely it should be πειθόμενοι. | to the foolish
Nestorius they imagine some strange relative union and mere indwelling,
understanding neither what they say nor whereof they
affirm2215
. For if in
truth the flesh was united with God the Word from its first origin, or
rather if it existed in Him and was identical in subsistence with Him,
how was it that it was not endowed completely with all wisdom and
grace? not that it might itself participate in the grace, nor share by
grace in what belonged to the Word, but rather by reason of the union
in subsistence, since both what is human and what is divine belong to the one Christ, and
that He Who was Himself at once God and man should pour forth like a
fountain over the universe His grace and wisdom and plenitude of every
blessing.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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