The body of Christ is created flesh of the uncreated Word
If anyone says that the body of Christ is uncreated, and does not confess that he himself — the uncreated God, the Word — showed the incarnation from created humanity and was made man, as it is written, let him be anathema.
How can a body be called uncreated? What is uncreated is also without passion: it cannot be wounded, and it cannot be handled. But Christ, rising from the dead, showed his disciples the marks of the nails and the wound the spear had made, and a body that could be touched, even while he came in when the doors were shut (John 20:19-27). He did this so that the working of the Godhead and the truth of the body might be shown together.
And while he was God, he was recognized as man in the ordinary way; and while he was truly man, he was still shown as God by his works.
Latin
Si quis dicit corpus Christi increatum, et non confitetur ipsum increatum Deum Verbum ex creata humanitate incarnationem ostendisse, factumque esse hominem sicut scriptum est, anathema sit. Quomodo enim corpus increatum dici potest? Nam quod increatum est, etiam passionis expers est, et neque vulnerari neque attrectari potest. Christus autem a mortuis resurgens clavorum et vulnerationem lancea factam corpusque suum palpandum discipulis demonstrans clausis ianuis ingressus est. Sed ut divinitatis opera et corporis veritatem ostenderet: et cum alioqui Deus esset, homo agnoscebatur; et cum esset vere homo, Deus tamen ex suis operibus ostendebatur.
About this text
Gregory Thaumaturgus, Twelve Chapters on the Faith: the first two chapters — on the uncreated body, and the flesh not consubstantial with the Godhead.
Catalogue & scope
densify Capita I-II; Greek column OCR damaged
Witnesses
- Copy-text Vossius 1684 Opera omnia (Latin column (Greek damaged))
- Checked print Archive DjVu OCR (Latin/Greek mixed OCR)
- Copy-text Locked Latin Capita I-II (Latin)
Where the prints differ
- Cap. I interpretatio — OCR of clavorum / lancea / palpandum / clausis ianuis restored from the facing column and the John 20 scene; not invented doctrine.
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