Fragments Against Theodore, Book 2

1He said to the disciples, “Do not call anyone on earth ‘teacher,’ for you have one guide, the Christ” (Matthew 23:8). For when he gave this command to the apostles, he was not separating his own divinity from the visible body. Nor when he bore witness that he himself was the Christ was he dividing soul and flesh in that way, since he is both God and man at once—seen as a slave and known as Lord. He was hiding the loftiness of his divinity under the lowly thought of his incarnation, and the lowliness of. Text breaks off.

2the visible body, while exalting it by the energy of his divinity.

Let no one deceive, and let no one be deceived, by accepting the Lord as a mindless man, as they themselves say—or rather, our Lord and God. For we do not separate the man from the divinity, but we teach that he is one and the same: first not a man, but God and only Son, pre-eternal, unmixed with body and with all that belongs to body; and at the end also a man, assumed for our salvation, passible in flesh, impassible in divinity, circumscribed in body, uncircumscribed in divinity—the same one earthly and heavenly,

3He is seen and thought, containable and uncontainable, so that the whole human being who fell under sin might be refashioned in the whole human being who is the same one and God. For since the only Son, the Word of God, being life by nature, was enfleshed, the nature of man blossomed up into life. For he himself has become first in all things (Colossians 1:18).

4For this reason the life-giving Word of God made his own the flesh that death held fast, so that he might show it stronger than both death and corruption and pass that grace on to us. Just as we were brought down into death in Adam, so in Christ we have thrust aside death's tyranny and are being refashioned toward incorruption. [513d. From the same author, from the first book against Theodore.] Just as a human being is one from soul and body, even though the properties of each differ from one another as much as possible in what they are—for soul is other than body—so it would be understood also in the case of Christ, the Savior of us all.