The Eucharistic Prayer · §1 · Epiphanius of Salamis

The Worthy Thanksgiving

It is worthy and just that our God be thanked without ceasing for all your benefits which you have bestowed upon us. First, that you sent to us from heaven your holy child, the co-throne of your kingdom, your companion son, the God Word, who, coming upon the last of the days, having taken our humanity, the Word became flesh without remaining a mere change. Through the Holy Spirit, he possessed flesh and a human soul, having all the things of man without sin. He did not dwell as if in some man, but he himself, entirely the God Word, having been perfectly eaten, did not alter humanity; not two existing, but one King, one Christ, one.

Greek

Anaphora Graeca «Ἄξιον καὶ δίκαιόν ἐστιν ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, εὐχαριστεῖν σοι ἀδιαλείπτως ὑπὲρ πασῶν τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν σου ὧν ἐδωρήσω ἡμῖν, πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι ἀπέστειλας ἡμῖν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ τὸν ἅγιον παῖδά σου, τὸν σύνθρονον τῆς βασιλείας σου, τὸν συναΐδιόν σου υἱόν, τὸν Θεὸν λόγον, ὃς 299 ἐλθὼν ἐπ' ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν, λαβὼν τὴν ἡμετέραν ἀνθρωπότητα ὁ λόγος σὰρξ γενόμενος μὴ ὑπομείνας τροπήν, διὰ Πνεύματος ἁγίου σάρκα καὶ ψυχὴν ἔννουν ἀνθρώπου ἔχων καὶ πάντα τὰ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας, οὐχ ὡς ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ τινὶ ἐνοικήσας, ἀλλὰ αὐτὸς ὅλως ὁ Θεὸς λόγος τέλειος τελείως βρωθείς, οὐκ ἀλλοιώσας τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα, οὐχὶ δύο ὑπάρχων, ἀλλ' εἷς βασιλεύς, εἷς Χριστός, εἷς