A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

252 A Source Book for Ancient Church History300 ff. Fragments I-III are from the work of the EmperorJustinian, Contra Monophysitas; fragment IV is from thework of Leontius of Byzantium, Adversus Nestorianos etEutychianos.[228]I. The Logos became united with Him who was born of David,who is Jesus, who was begotten of the Holy Ghost. And Himthe Virgin bore by the Holy Spirit; but God generated that Logoswithout the Virgin or any one else than God, and thus the Logosexists.II. The Logos was greater than Christ. Christ became greaterthrough Wisdom, that we might not overthrow the dignity ofWisdom.III. In order that the Anointed, who was from David, mightnot be a stranger to Wisdom, and that Wisdom might not dwellso largely in another. For it was in the prophets, and more inMoses, and in many the Lord was, but more also in Christ as ina temple. For Jesus Christ was one and the Logos was another.IV. He who appeared was not Wisdom, for He could not befound in an outward form, neither in the appearance of a man;for He is greater than all things visible.(e) Paul of Samosata, Orationes ad Sabinum, Routh, op. cit., III,329.The doctrine of Paul.Paul's work addressed to Sabinus has perished with the exceptionof a few fragments. See Routh, op. cit.I. Thou shouldest not wonder that the Saviour had one will withGod; for just as nature shows us a substance becoming one andthe same out of many things, so the nature of love makes one andthe same will out of many through a manifest preference.