Chrysostom; Severianus; Vitalis
From John, bishop of Constantinople, on the divine birth. He says of the holy virgin: “Instead of a sun, he says, she contains without limit the sun of righteousness. Nature’s order is overcome; for he willed, he was able, he came down, he saved — all things run together for God. Today the One who is is born, and the One who is becomes what he was not. Being God, he becomes human without leaving off being God. He did not become human by departing from deity, nor become God by climbing up from humanity. Being Word, he became flesh without suffering change; his nature remained unchanged.” (Malachi 4:2) He adds: “He who sits on a high and lifted throne is laid in a manger. The untouchable, simple, bodiless one is wrapped by human hands. He who breaks the bonds of sin is tangled in swaddling cloths.” (Isaiah 6:1)
From bishop Severianus: “For the Word begotten from above from the Father — beyond speech, beyond telling, beyond grasp, eternally — is himself begotten in time from below from the virgin Mary, so that those first born from below may be born from above from a second birth, that is, from God.” (John 3:3–7)
From bishop Vitalis, from the treatise on the faith: “And we also believe this about the Savior’s plan according to the flesh: while the
Greek
'"Iwdvvov ἐπισκόπον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, περὶ τῆς θείας γεννήσεως.
Φησὶ δὲ περὶ τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου » Avri δὲ ἡλίου, φησὶ, τὸν ἥλιον τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἀπερι- » βούλεται Θεὸς, νικᾶται φύσεως τάξις. ἠβουλήθη γὰρ, » ἤδυνήθη, κατῆλθεν, ἔσωσε, σύνδρομα πάντα Θεῷ. σή-
« L4 , Ἧ € Δ [4 e , 3 *
5 pepov O ὧν TLKTETOUL, Καὶ O ὧν γίνεται OTT ep Οὐκ TV. OV
» yap «os, γίνεται ἄνθρωπος, οὐκ ἐκστας τοῦ εἶναι Θεος.
10, οὔτε yap kar ἐκστασιν θεότητος γέγονεν ἄνθρωπος, ovre
» κατὰ προκοπὴν ἐξ ἀνθρώπου γέγονε Θεὺς, ἀλλὰ Λόγος ὧν
{. νἱ. 302
» διὰ τὸ ἀπαθὲς σὰρξ ἐγένετο, ἀμεταβλήτου μενούσης τῆς ἃ b1 A.
» Qvacos." kai προσεπάγει τούτοις *'O ἐπὶ θρόνου ὑψηλοῦ
» kai ἐπηρμένου καθήμενος, ἐν φάτνῃ τίθεται" ὁ ἀναφὴης xai
15, ἀπλοῦς καὶ ἀσώματος χερσὶν ἀνθρωπίναις εἱλίσσεται. ὁ
* ^ € ’ ὃ ^ ὃ 9*4 , 3, À , »T& τῆς ἁμαρτίας διασπῶν Óecpa, σπαργανοις ἐμπλέ- » κεται.᾿"
Σεβηριανοῦ ἐπισκόπου.
» O γὰρ γεννηθεὶς ἄνωθεν ἐκ Πατρὸς Λόγος, ἀποῤῥήτως, b
20» ἀῴραστως, ἀκαταλήπτως, αἰδίως, ὁ αὑτὸς ἐν χρόνῳ γεν-
^ , 0 9 θ ’ Μ , [. d e , » Ψάται κάτωθεν ἐκ παρθένου Μαρίας. iva ot προτερον
» γεννηθέντες κατωθεν, ἄνωθεν γεννηθῶσιν ἐκ δευτέρου,
, Τουτέστι Θεοῦ."
Οὐιταλίον ἐπισκόπου, ἐκ τοῦ περὶ πίστεως λόγον.
"E δὲ b s ^ Ἁ ’ ᾽ ’ ^ * ^ » TL O€ Και πέρι Τὴς Κατα CO αρκα Οἰκονομιας TOU .£0TTpOS co
» πιστεύομεν, ὅτι ἀναλλοιώτου καὶ ἀτρέπτου μένοντος τοῦ
1—3. om. C. Comm. 4. ἀπεριγράφως C. Comm. ἀπεριγράπτως Edd.
6. φύσεων C. I4. τίθεται} τίκτεται C. Comm. I5. ἀνθρωπίναις om.
εἷλίσσεται] ἁλίσκεται C. Comm. 18. Tit. om. C. Comm. I9. 'O om. Cod. 22. κάτωθεν γεννηθέντες inverso ordine C. Comm. δευτέρας