On Faith · §1 · Epiphanius of Salamis

Christ the mediator of both natures

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The excerptor reports what Epiphanius of Cyprus showed in his discourse on faith, namely that Christ is mediator of God and human beings because he possesses both flesh from humanity and invisible essence from the Father.

Epiphanius of Cyprus, from the discourse on faith.

And in order that he might show that Christ is “mediator of God and human beings” (1 Timothy 2:5), possessing both realities—flesh from humanity and invisible essence from the Father—he speaks as God the divine things that are fitting for God, and as man the same one speaks the human things that are fitting for a human. In both he holds authority naturally and substantially, without confusion and without division, both divinely and humanly.

Greek

̓Επιφανίου Κύπρου ἐκ τοῦ περὶ πίστεως λόγου. Καὶ ἵνα δείξῃ, ὅτι "μεσίτης" ἐστὶ "θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπων" τὰ ἀμφότερα ἔχων, ἐξ ἀνθρώπων μὲν τὴν σάρκα, ἐκ δὲ πατρὸς τὴν ἀόρατον οὐσίαν, λαλεῖ μὲν ὡς θεὸς τὰ θεῖα καὶ θεοπρεπῆ, ὡς δὲ ἄνθρωπος ὁ αὐτὸς τὰ ἀνθρώπινα καὶ ἀνθρωποπρεπῆ, ἔχων ἐν ἀμφοτέροις τὴν ἐξουσίαν φυσικῶς καὶ οὐσιωδῶς, ἀσυγχύτως καὶ ἀδιαιρέτως, θεϊκῶς τε καὶ ἀνθρωπίνως.

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