Letter 358

To the Same Person. The only-begotten Son and Word of God, even after he was formed, that is, given a body, from the holy Virgin, did not fall away from, nor was he made estranged from, his own divinity; for he remained God even after the incarnation: true God with respect to what is invisible, but true man with respect to what is seen, since indeed he was not without mind and without soul, as Apollinaris [Apollinaris of Laodicea, d. c. 390, who taught that in Christ the divine Logos replaced the human mind] has loudly proclaimed.

Ὁ μονογενὴς Υἱός, καὶ Λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ μετὰ τὸ σχηματισθῆναι, ἤτοι σωματωθῆναι ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας Παρθένου, οὐκ ἐκπέπτωκεν, καὶ ἀπῃλλοτριώθη τῆς ἰδίας θεότητος, ἔμεινε γὰρ Θεὸς καὶ μετὰ τὴν σάρκωσιν, Θεὸς μὲν ἀληθινὸς κατὰ τὸ ἀόρατον, ἄνθρω- πρὸς δὲ ἀληθινὸς κατὰ τὸ ὁρώμενον, οὐκ ἄνους γάρ δή. καὶ ἄψυχος, καθάπερ βεδόηκεν Ἀπολλινάριος.