with its own property. For the property of the Father is unbegottenness; the property of the Son is generation; and the property of the Spirit is procession. God A the Father is without beginning; God the Son is co-without-beginning, even if he is from the Father; God the Holy Spirit is co-eternal and co-without-beginning, proceeding from the Father, not generated filially as a Son, but by way of procession. The three are one in Godhead, although in three hypostases.
In the dispensation of God and the Word of God, which by the good pleasure of the Father and the cooperation of the Holy Spirit became flesh, we confess two natures and one hypostasis; one, I say, the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, God at once and man, and one person; but two wills and two operations, B each nature with its own property, without division and without confusion. For it is the property of the Godhead to raise the dead and to perform divine miracles; but it is the property of the humanity to be hungry and thirsty and weary, and to endure sufferings. For he was united to the flesh without confusion and without division, with which flesh he was taken up, and sat at the right hand of the Father, and shall come with glory at the end of the ages to judge the living and the dead, God incarnate.
Concerning the Animate.
Animate is called that which is nourished, and grows, and generates what is like itself. This is divided into three: into animal; but the animal does not have only these three natural motions, but also that of moving from place to place; into plant; this has only those three; into zoophyte; the zoophyte is the mean C between the animal and the plant. For as it has the three of the plant, and in addition to the three, the motion from place to place of the animal, it exists as the mean. For it also has motion, but not from place to place, but by contraction, if anyone touches it.
The body is divided into animate and inanimate; the animate into sensitive animal and insensitive; the animate into zoophyte and plant; the zoophyte into fig-tree; the plant into herb, shrub, tree; the animal into rational and irrational; the rational into mortal and immortal; the immortal into angel, demon; D the mortal into man, ox, dog, and the like.
Innovation is a thing differing from the limits and laws of nature. Dispensation is a thing which ought not to happen; but it happens by condescension and for the benefit of some. Of existing things, some are essence, some are aptitude, and some are act.
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