"God with us." A Since the one born is God, whether you wish it or not, he is God for all that.
NEST. The angel said to Joseph, "Arise, take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I tell you." He did not say, "Take God and his mother."
CYR. Yet the archangel Gabriel says to the Virgin, "The Holy Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow you; therefore also the holy thing to be born of you shall be called the Son of the Most High."
NEST. The Apostle said, "He emptied himself, taking the form of a servant"; B that is, by putting on our body, in which he grew in wisdom and age and grace before God and men, as a human being of the Lord.
CYR. Whatever is born from flesh is flesh; yet the miracle of the birth is not thereby annulled. For as God begets divinely, so also the God-befitting Virgin gave birth in the flesh to the Word who is God from God.
NEST. Every mother gives birth to one consubstantial with herself; therefore she is not his mother, unless he himself is consubstantial with her. For how can she be mother to him who is a stranger to her own substance?
CYR. We have been taught to confess one Son from the Virgin and from the Holy Spirit, consubstantial with the mother as with the Father, just as the Fathers have said.
NEST. I divide the natures, I make one adoration, C because God is inseparable from that which is seen. Therefore I do not divide the honor.
CYR. He who divides the natures speaks of two sons, not believing the Scripture saying that, "The Word became flesh."
NEST. Paul says, "that Jesus is the high priest and apostle of our confession, who is faithful to him who made him, who offered himself as a sacrifice for himself no less than for the people. Wherefore he is established as high priest in the things that pertain to God."
CYR. Paul says, "Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; a second time he will appear without sin." And again, "He committed no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth." And behold, D he offers himself for us; see then that he did not offer himself for himself, but for the people.
NEST. When he himself says, "He who eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, shall live because of me, even as I live because of the Father who sent me."
What then do you eat, O heretic? The divinity, or the humanity? For Christ did not say, "He who eats my divinity," but, "The flesh."
CYR. I indeed receive by faith the flesh of the life-giving Word which gives life; whence the Savior said: "Those who eat of this bread shall not taste death unto eternity." But those who receive it unworthily shall be judged on account of their unbelief.
NEST. A "The Lord hath sent me and his Spirit. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me." And therefore he says: "God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." Understand, therefore, the anointed, confess the anointer, and adore the temple on account of him who dwells within it.
CYR. I confess one Son from two, from the holy Spirit and Mary the Virgin; I do not divide the one into two.
NEST. How do you say that he is ignorant of the hour, which the Son does not know, [save] the Father alone? Or how, if the Son knew it, did he deny it? Or if he was truly ignorant, how is he called the wisdom and power of God, he who possessed some part of ignorance?
CYR. B The Son of God is not ignorant of the hour, who knows all things and has the Father in himself, as he himself said: "No one knows the Father, except the Son." Does the Son of God alone know the nature of the Father which is before all things, and is he ignorant of the end of the age? Far be it! Ignorant, indeed, is he who is a son by grace, but certainly not he who is so by nature. Furthermore, it is we who are sons by grace, who are deeply ignorant, and know nothing pertaining to the end of the age.
NEST. We naturally hunger, and thirst, and sleep, not doing this by design, but compelled by the necessity of nature. What then? Shall God be found obeying compelling laws? Far be it!
CYR. C We indeed naturally hunger, and thirst, and sleep, serving not by our will, but by the necessity of nature; but he [ate and slept] not compelled, but by his will. For he satisfied five thousand men from five loaves, and again four thousand from seven. He himself said: "No one takes my life from me, but when I will, I lay it down; and again, when I will, I take it up." And no man is able to do this, except Christ alone.
NEST. Do you say that the Son suffered? Therefore the Father also suffered. But if you deny that the Father suffered, you have made the Son to be of a different substance from him.
CYR. I say neither that the Father is passible, nor that the Son is impassible; D but the divinity is impassible, because it is also incorporeal; but the Lord is passible on account of the flesh.
NEST. I do not say that the Word became flesh, nor that he suffered; for the divinity is impassible, and [the Word] is impassible; but the flesh is passible and the human nature mortal. CYR. We confess...