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| Chapter XIII. He replies to the objection in which they say that the child born ought to be of one substance with the mother.
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Chapter XIII.
He replies to the objection in which they say that
the child born2563
ought
to be of one substance with the mother.
But indeed in your deceit
and blasphemy you use a grand argument for denying and attacking the
Lord God, when you say that “the child born ought to be of one
substance with the mother.”2564
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parienti debet esse nativitas. | I do not
entirely admit it, and maintain that in the matter of the birth of God
it would not be observed; for the birth was not so much the work of her
who bore Him as of her Son, and He was born as He willed, whose doing
it was that He was born. Next, if you say that the child born ought to
be of one substance with the parent, I affirm that the Lord Jesus
Christ was of one substance with His Father, and also with His mother.
For in accordance with the difference of the Persons He showed a
likeness to each parent. For according to His Divinity He was of one
substance with the Father: but according to the flesh He was of one
substance with His mother. Not that it was one Person who was of one
substance with the Father, and another who was of one substance with
His mother, but because the same Lord Jesus Christ, both born as man,
and also being God, had in Him the properties of each parent, and in
that He was man He showed a likeness to His human mother, and in that
He was God He possessed the very nature of God the
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