Serves as man, receives as God; descends without leaving deity

the Son says: “he did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” For to be served by creation would fit him very reasonably, as God and Master and having under his feet everything that is made; but to serve is human — yet, as far as it touches the accounts of the economy with flesh, not unfitting for the one who wholly lowered himself toward human things. And see how he priests in a human way and has been set as mediator of God and humans — for every priest mediates — yet he does not bring the mode of the sacrifice still in a slave-like way as one of our priests, himself having no share in it, but works it for himself, and through himself and in himself to the Father. For he consecrates our confession — that is, the faith… So even if he is said to priest in a human way, yet he himself receives the sacrifice in a divine way, being the same one together God and human. And he is also called faithful because he can always save those who approach God through him… And being somehow compared to Moses’ service according to the human, one may learn how great a superiority he has in that he is God… that the one is faithful as a household-servant in the house, but the other as Master over his house; and that Emmanuel is builder and maker of the house, whose house we are. And the difference of maker toward what is made is beyond compare, and of the Master by nature toward what is truly slave…

“Because I have come down from heaven not so that I may do my will but the will of the one who sent me. And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of all that he has given me, but raise it on the last day.” He says that he himself has come down from heaven and been sent from God the Father — though he fills all things — showing, I think… that the Word, being God, has come down economically into humanity for us; and nowhere releasing being God by nature, but rather taking on what he was not… and giving for a short time to death the body united to him and his own, so that he may lose none of what was given him, but rather save it and raise it on the last day. So when he says he does the Father’s will and not altogether his own, he exposes the Jews’ madness… Therefore he says such things economically.