Incarnation
Having sinned through Adam's transgression, humanity is shown to be in need of restoration, so that the one who enriches us may again be revealed. For the Word, being God by nature, humbled himself and became human, a little lower than the angels, to restore humanity to glory and honor. "We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death" (Hebrews 2:9).
If someone says that the man born of the Virgin is worthy of memory and care from God, they will bring shame, for where is Christ as a mere human, and when is he thought of without the united Word? How then can he be said to be worthy of care and memory from God?
The Lord is one, and our faith is one, and we have one baptism. Although the difference between natures is significant, the mode of union has revealed one Son from both. If we are worthy of memory from God the Word, then we are certainly psychic, lacking the spirit as it is written (1 Corinthians 14:14). We divide the one into two.
The body of the Word is not foreign to the Word itself. If the one born from the holy virgin has undergone emptying, how can he be emptied if he is glorified? Is it not an honor and glory for a human to be deemed worthy of oversight and memory, and to attain union with God? If they say that the emptying was done to the Monogenes, then he has been emptied by having suffered. For the one to whom suffering has happened, it is fitting that the matter of emptying has also happened.
Christ, as God, is deemed worthy of memory from God and has become one of the beneficiaries, and we approach Him as God in prayer, requesting the supply of heavenly goods, as He distributes the requests to all creation in a God-pleasing manner. This is evident because the children have shared in blood and flesh, and Christ has similarly shared in these things.
It is necessary to carefully examine which children the word is about, who have shared in flesh and blood, and how Christ has similarly participated in these things. When the Only-Begotten Word of God, being God and Lord by nature and co-throned with God the Father, was measured to the level of humanity, He was composed as a brother to those called through faith to the adoption of God. Then the economy's cleverness is well done.
Greek
δόξης ἡμαρτηκότα διὰ τὴν ἐν Ἀδὰμ παράβασιν ἵνα καὶ τὸν τῆς ἐπαναλήψεως ἀφηγήσηται τρόπον καὶ οἷά τις ἦν ἐμφάνῃ τὴν τοῦ γένους πτωχείαν ἵνα δείξῃ πάλιν τὸν δι' οὗ πεπλουτίσμεθα. προσεπάγει γὰρ εὐθύς "Τὸν δὲ βραχύ τι παρ' ἀγγέλους "ἠλαττωμένον βλέπομεν Ἰησοῦν διὰ τὸ πάθημα τοῦ θανά"του δόξῃ καὶ τιμῇ ἐστεφανωμένον·" Θεὸς γὰρ ὢν φύσει καθὰ πλειστάκις εἰρήκαμεν ὁ ἐκ Θεοῦ Λόγος, καθῆκεν ἑαυτὸν εἰς κένωσιν καὶ κεχρημάτικε μεθ' ἡμῶν ὡς ἄνθρωπος βραχὺ παρ' ἀγγέλους, ἵνα καὶ ὑπήκοος γεγονὼς τῷ Πατρὶ καὶ μέχρι θανάτου, δόξῃ καὶ τιμῇ στεφανώσῃ τὴν ἀνθρώπου φύσιν, ὡς εἷς ἐξ ἡμῶν στεφανούμενος καίτοι τῆς δόξης Κύριος ὤν. Εἰ δὲ δή τις λέγοι μνήμης καὶ ἐπισκοπῆς ἠξιῶσθαι παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου τὸν ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου γεγεννημένον ἄνθρωπον, εὐεργετῆσθαί τε αὐτὸν καὶ ἠξιῶσθαι τιμῆς ὑπὲρ ἰδίαν φύσιν, κατακομιεῖ μὲν ὥσπερ εἰς γῆν τοῦ μυστηρίου 390 τὴν δόξαν, πλεῖστον δὲ ὅσον ὀφλήσει γέλωτα. ποῦ γὰρ εἰπέ μοι ψιλὸς ἄνθρωπος ὁ Χριστός; πότε δὲ δίχα τοῦ ἑνωθέντος αὐτῷ νοεῖται Λόγου; ἔστι γὰρ ἐκ μήτρας Ἐμμανουὴλ καὶ οὐ γέγονε τοῦτο κατὰ καιρούς. πῶς οὖν αὐτὸν ἐπισκοπῆς τε καὶ μνήμης ἠξιῶσθαί φασι παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου; εἶτα διιστάντες τε καὶ διορίζοντες ὁλοτρόπως ἁλοῖεν ἂν καὶ ἀνὰ μέρος, ἡμῖν γυμνὸν τοῦ ἑνωθέντος Λόγου δεικνύντες ἕτερον Χριστὸν καὶ Υἱόν· ἕτερον γὰρ ἀνάγκη νοεῖσθαι τὸν ἐπισκοπῆς αὐτὸν καὶ μνήμης ἠξιωκότα παρὰ τὸν ᾧ ταῦτα δέδοται παρ' αὐτοῦ· πῶς οὖν ἔτι Κύριος εἷς μία τε πίστις καὶ ἓν τὸ βάπτισμα; εἰ γὰρ καὶ πολλή τις τῶν φύσεων ἡ διαφορὰ, ἀλλ' ὅ γε τῆς ἑνώσεως τρόπος ἕνα τὸν ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ἔδειξεν Υἱόν. οὐκοῦν εἰ μνήμης ἠξιῶσθαί φαμεν αὐτὸν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου, ψυχικοὶ δὴ πάντως ἐσμὲν πνεῦμα μὴ ἔχοντες καθὰ γέγραπται· διορίζομεν γὰρ εἰς δύο τὸν ἕνα. εἰ δὲ ἦν ἐν ἀρχαῖς ὅπερ ἐστὶ καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς μήτρας Ἐμμανουὴλ, εἰ τὸν τῆς ἑνώσεως μὴ παραδεξόμεθα τρόπον, ἑαυτοῦ δὴ πάντως ὁ Λόγος διαμεμνήσεται, ἑαυτὸν ἠξίωσε τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς, ἑαυτὸν εὐεργετήσας ὁρᾶται, καὶ πολλὴν ἡμῖν ἐν τούτοις τὴν ἀτοπίαν εἰσκομιεῖ τῶν ἐννοιῶν ἡ δύναμις· οὐ γὰρ ἀλλότριον τοῦ Λόγου τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ, ἄλλως τε τίς ἄρα ἐστὶν ὁ κεκενῶσθαι λεγόμενος παρὰ τῆς ἁγίας γραφῆς; Εἰ μὲν οὖν τὸν ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου γεγεννημένον ἀνὰ μέρος ἡμῖν ἱστάντες, αὐτὸν ὑπομεῖναί φασι τὴν κένωσιν, πῶς ἐκενώθη δεδοξασμένος, εἴπερ ἐστὶ καθ' ἡμᾶς ἀνθρώπῳ τιμὴ καὶ δόξα τὸ ἐπισκοπῆς ἀξιοῦσθαι καὶ μνήμης, ἑνώσεώς τε τυχεῖν τῆς πρὸς Θεόν· εἰ δ' ἐπ' αὐτοῦ λέγοιεν πεπράχθαι τὴν κένωσιν τοῦ Μονογενοῦς, κεκένωταί τι παθών· ᾧ γὰρ τὸ παθεῖν συμβέβηκε, πρέποι ἂν μᾶλλον καὶ τὸ τῆς κενώσεως χρῆμα. σεσώσμεθα τοίνυν δι' ἑαυτῶν, εἴπερ ἐστὶν ἄνθρωπος καθ' ἡμᾶς οὐχ ἑνωθεὶς καθ' ὑπόστασιν τῷ ἐκ 391 Θεοῦ φύντι Λόγῳ, καθάπερ αὐτοί φασιν, ὁ ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου γεγεννημένος. πῶς οὖν Θεὸς ὁ Χριστὸς, εἰ καὶ αὐτὸς μεθ' ἡμῶν ἠξίωται μνήμης τῆς παρὰ Θεοῦ καὶ γέγονεν εἷς τῶν εὐεργετουμένων; καίτοι πρόσιμεν ὡς Θεῷ προσευχόμενοι καὶ τῶν ἄνωθεν ἀγαθῶν αἰτούμενοι τὴν χορηγίαν, ὡς ὅλῃ τῇ κτίσει διανέμοντα θεοπρεπῶς τὰ αἰτήματα. 392 Ἐπεὶ οὖν τὰ παιδία κεκοινώνηκεν αἵματος καὶ σαρκὸς καὶ αὐτὸς παραπλησίως. 393 Ἀναγκαῖον οἶμαι πρό γε τῶν ἄλλων πολυπραγμονῆσαι λεπτῶς περὶ ποίων αὐτῷ παιδίων ὁ λόγος, ἃ δὴ σαρκός τε καὶ αἵματος κεκοινωνηκέναι φησὶ καὶ τίς ὁ παραπλησίως μετεσχηκὼς τῶν αὐτῶν. ὅτε τοίνυν ὁ Μονογενὴς τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος καίτοι Θεὸς καὶ Κύριος ὢν κατὰ φύσιν καὶ σύνεδρος τῷ Θεῷ καὶ Πατρὶ καθῆκεν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος μέτρον, συντέτακται δὲ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὡς ἀδελφὸς τοῖς κεκλημένοις διὰ πίστεως εἰς υἱοθεσίαν Θεοῦ· τότε δὴ τότε τῆς οἰκονομίας τὸ εὐτεχνὲς εὖ μάλα 13