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548 A Source Book for Ancient Church History[500]all faith in Him and all understanding and contemplation, onaccount of which things also He receives from every creature theworship and sacrifice of God. Therefore we say that there is oneLord, namely, the Lord Jesus Christ, by whom all things weremade, understanding principally God the Word, who accordingto substance is Son of God and Lord, equally regarding thatwhich was assumed, Jesus of Nazareth, who God anointed withthe Spirit and power, as in conjunction with God the Lord, andparticipating in sonship and dignity, who also is called the secondAdam, according to the blessed Apostle Paul, as being of thesame nature as Adam.(f) Theodore of Mopsuestia, Fragments. Swete, Theodori epis.Mops. in epistulas b. Pauli commentarii, Cambridge, 1880,1882.In the appendix to the second volume of this work by Theodorethere are many fragments of Theodore's principal dogmaticwork, On the Incarnation, directed against Eunomius. Thework as a whole has not been preserved. In the same appendixthere are also other important fragments. The references areto this edition.P. 299. If we distinguish the two natures, we speak of one completenature of God the Word and a complete person (πρόσωπον).But we name complete also the nature of the man and also theperson. If we think on the conjunction (συνάφεια) then we speakof one person.P. 312. In the moment in which He [Jesus] was formed [inthe womb of the Virgin] He received the destination of being atemple of God. For we should not believe that God was bornof the Virgin unless we are willing to assume that one and thesame is that which is born and what is in that which is born, thetemple, and God the Logos in the temple.… If God had become