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Gregory Thaumaturgus
If any one affirms that the Son of God who is before the ages is one, and He who has appeared in these last times is another, and refuses to acknowledge that He who is before the ages is the same with Him who appeared in these last times, even as it is written, let him be anathema.
Explication.
How could it be said that the Son of God who is before the ages, and He who has appeared in these last times, are different, when the Lord Himself says, “Before Abraham was, I am;”[400] and, “I came forth from God, and I come, and again I go to my Father?”[401]
If any one affirms that He who suffered is one, and that He who suffered not is another, and refuses to acknowledge that the Word, who is Himself the impassibie and unchangeable God, suffered in the flesh which He had assumed really, yet without mutation, even as it is written, let him be anathema.
Explication.
How could it be said that He who suffered is one, and He who suffered not another, when the Lord Himself says, “The Son of man must suffer many things, and be killed, and be raised again the third day from the dead;”[402] and again, “When ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the Father;”[403] and again, “When the Son of man cometh in the glory of His Father?”[404]
If any one affirms that Christ is saved, and refuses to acknowledge that He is the Saviour of the world, and the Light of the world, even as it is written,[405] let him be anathema.
Explication.
How could one say that Christ is saved, when the Lord Himself says, “I am the life;”[406] and, “I am come that they might have life;”[407] and, “He that believeth on me shall not see death, but he shall behold the life eternal?”[408]
If any one affirms that Christ is perfect man and also God the Word in the way of separation,[409] and refuses to acknowledge the one Lord Jesus Christ, even as it is written, let him be anathema.
Explication.
How could one say that Christ is perfect man and also God the Word in the way of separation, when the Lord Himself says, “Why seek ye to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God?”[410] For God the Word did not give a man for us, but He gave Himself for us, having been made man for our sake. Wherefore He says: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. But He spake of the temple of His body.”[411]
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