False conjunction; Christ named when Word became flesh

— even if he is thought to exist alone and by himself — and third, that the title fits both as one by their “conjunction,” which, they say, binds them into one person. They have no account of a true union according to nature. Yet that is the mystery’s straight and least wandering path.

Their pretext is not simple; it is filled rather with bitterness and deceit. God-breathed Scripture, when it names Christ, assigns him all that befits God — for it knows the Word of God has appeared in human form and been enfleshed. But those who choose other thoughts, and want to show the one from the woman as a common human advanced by his own human virtue until he deserved honor and a conjunction of person with the Word from God, and election by foreknowledge — they say the name Christ fits the Word begotten from God the Father even when he is thought and exists alone, privately, by himself.

We have not been taught to think or speak that way. When the Word became flesh, then, we say, he was also named Christ Jesus. Since he has been anointed with the oil of gladness — that is, with the Holy Spirit from God the Father — he is named Christ in that way. And that the anointing concerns the human, no one would doubt.