Chapter XI.—And Indeed

that Christ Was Not Only Man, But God Also; That Even as He Was the Son

of Man, So Also He Was the Son of God.

But lest, from the fact of asserting that our Lord

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Creator, was manifested in the

substance of the true body, we should seem either to have given assent

to other heretics, who in this place maintain that He is man only and

alone, and therefore desire to prove that He was a man bare and

solitary; and lest we should seem to have afforded them any ground for

objecting, we do not so express doctrine concerning the

substance of His body, as to say that He is only and alone man, but so

as to maintain, by the association of the divinity of the Word in that

very materiality, that He was also God according to the

Scriptures. For there is a great risk of saying that the Saviour

of the human race was only man; that the Lord of all, and the

Chief of the world, to whom all things were delivered, and all things

were granted by His Father, by whom all things were ordained, all

things were created, all things were arranged, the King of all ages and

times, the Prince of all the angels, before whom there is none but the

Father, was only man, and denying to Him divine authority in these

things. For this contempt of the heretics will recoil also upon

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