ATHANASII CORINTHII ARCHIEPISCOPI E QUATUOR LIBRIS ZOTI JACOBITI
(Luc. XXIV, 43.)
We inquire whether the saturation of food in Christ produced evacuation. If therefore you say that it produced evacuation, you are Nestorians, positing a mere man, and not Christ. But if you say that it did not produce evacuation, how is it to be understood that man is admitted to be satisfied, and not evacuated? A — Response. — The Apostle, wishing to show the pinnacle of divinity and humanity, says that in all things a man like us was assumed without sin; but he said this about him who was the pinnacle of union; we, however, admit that Christ exists above man. For that he was born of a Virgin shows him to be God and above man; and it behooved us, according to the rule of holy Scripture, neither to decline to the right nor to the left, but to stand on what is written, and not to seek anything more. Nevertheless, B lest we appear to be silent for lack of a response, we say, for the better part excels, that his body is other than the one of the more excellent, which was indeed in the fulfillment according to us, but in the evacuation above us. He shows also that even before the incarnation the blessed Trinity, eating with Abraham, was satisfied and not evacuated. Similarly also after the resurrection our Savior is satisfied, and the evacuation does not occur, but the satisfaction is consumed by the indwelling divine nature; these things we indeed understand according to C the debility of our cognition; but he who is incarnate knows the modes of his own satisfaction and evacuation, just as he knows the modes of the union and distinction of the two natures in one person.
GREEK WORKS OF UNCERTAIN DATE
Many anonymous works of uncertain age wander through manuscript codices, works which we do not wish learned men to lack any longer. Those, however, which seem to be referable to the ninth and tenth centuries and are truly worthy of reading, we collect and edit here.
SCRIPTURAL WORKS. DIVISION OF THE OCTATEUCH INTO CHAPTERS
(Bandini Biblioth. Med. Laurent. tom. I, cod. XXXVII, tenth century, Plut. V.)
The division of Genesis is as follows: 1. Concerning the two luminaries. 2. Concerning reptiles and birds. 3. Concerning the creation of man. 4. Concerning the Sabbath rest. 5. Concerning the earth, and Adam, and the river of paradise. 6. Concerning Adam and Eve. 7. Concerning the deceit of the serpent. 8. Concerning the curse of the serpent. 9. Concerning the curse of the woman and of Adam. 10. Concerning the garments of skin. 11. Concerning the casting of Adam out of paradise. 12. The things concerning Adam, and Cain, and Abel. 13. Concerning the curse of Cain. 14. Concerning the genealogy of Cain. 15. The things concerning Lamech. 16. Concerning Seth and his son Enos. 17. Concerning the genealogy from Adam to Noah. 18. The things concerning Enoch. 19. Concerning those who took for themselves wives from all whom they chose, and concerning the giants. 20. First divine utterance to Noah concerning the ark. 21. Concerning the flood. 22. Concerning the sending of the raven. 23. Second divine utterance to Noah. 24. Concerning the altar of Noah, and the burnt offering. 25. Concerning eating every meat, provided it is not in the blood, and concerning him who sheds the blood of a man. D