Vitalis anathemas; Theophilus opens

of God the Word — that the enfleshment took place for the renewal of humanity. Being truly Son of God by the eternal begetting from God, he also became son of man by the begetting from the virgin. He is one and the same: perfect God according to the deity and same in substance with the Father, and perfect human according to the begetting from the virgin and same in substance with humans according to the flesh.

If anyone says Christ has a body from heaven, or that he is same in substance with God according to the flesh, let him be anathema.

If anyone does not confess that the Lord’s flesh is from the holy virgin and same in substance with humans, let him be anathema.

If anyone says our Lord and Savior, born according to the flesh from the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary, is without soul, or without mind, or without reason, or without sense, let him be anathema.

If anyone dares to say Christ suffered in the deity and not in the flesh, as it is written, let him be anathema.

If anyone divides and splits our Lord and Savior, and says the God Word is one Son and the assumed human another, and does not confess one and the same, let him be anathema.

From bishop Theophilus, from the address to those who think Origen’s thoughts. He said this about Christ: “So that the one who appeared may be believed to be true God not in word only but also in power, making the certainty about him clear by the great works of what was done. Being full God, and of his own will becoming human, and leaving nothing of human