Fragmenta homiliae de uno filio

From the same author, from the homily on the one son. For if there is one Son specifically, the Word from God the Father, and there is likewise one other specifically, distinct from him, honored by communion with the Son who is by nature and truly Son, how is it not evident to all that one gives, the other receives; one crowns, the other is crowned; and one is Lord by nature, the other is not? Who then are those who say and think these things, or what is their judgment? Let us ask the holy disciples. Listen to one speaking clearly: "For certain men have crept in, who were long ago written down for this judgment, impious men, transferring the grace of God and denying the only Master and Lord of us, Jesus Christ." How then is Jesus Christ the only master, having become a participant in the mastery of another, if he has this by grace, if the dignity of adoption itself is given to him, if nothing at all is his own, but rather all things belong to another who gave them to him? He said that Jesus Christ, the Word from God, is the only master and Lord of us; how then do you join to him a participant from the seed of David? For you do not allow him to be the only master, dividing his lordship and assigning it to another. Therefore we say to those who choose to think thus, through the voice of Elijah, "How long will you limp on both your knees?" Nothing among you is straight, but everything limps and there is great rottenness of thoughts; but we will not follow the vain counsels of some, but rather confess Christ as one by nature and truly Word from the Father, who has come to be in the assumption of flesh and blood.

From the same discourse. We who have believed in Christ are under a curse, if the one who was incarnate from the Virgin is not by nature and truly God. For the prophet Isaiah said somewhere about him: "And the root of Jesse and the one who rises to rule over nations, on him nations will set their hope." How then, having our hopes on him, are we not accursed, if the prophet Jeremiah is truthful in saying: "Cursed is he who places his hope on a man?" But we who have believed in Christ have not placed our hopes on a man. Therefore he is one and only and truly Son, both before the flesh and after the flesh, who, riding on a colt according to the faith of the evangelists, went up to Jerusalem. Then young boys met him, acclaiming him, and indeed said: "Hosanna to the son of David, blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord." At this utterance of the children, the Pharisees were indignant. For since a man who was seen was receiving the hymnody befitting God, indeed the bold ones approached, protesting and saying: "Do you not hear what these are saying?" They say, as it were: "Being a man, do you endure being glorified and hymned as God, and receiving the acclamations befitting God from the children?" And what did Christ do in response? Did he become indignant against the children? Did he reject the doxology? Did he rebuke those who were acclaiming him as God? Not at all. Rather, he said to the fault-finders: "Have you not read that from the mouth of infants and sucklings praise is fashioned?

Amen, I say to you, if these "are silent, the stones will cry out." Do you see how the one riding on the colt and according to the flesh son of David has testified to himself the glory of divinity? But he was not a participant in another's glory, as they say, nor was he another besides the Word from God the Father, as Son alone. For this reason he is called both God and Lord and Most High, even by the voice of angels. Indeed, the blessed Gabriel, when announcing the birth of John and making his future ministry clear to Zacharias, says that "many will rejoice at his birth, and he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God." How then did he turn the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God? For he announced to them, saying, "After me comes a man who was before me, because he was before me, and I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize in water told me: 'The one upon whom you see the Spirit descending from heaven and remaining upon him, that one baptizes in the Holy Spirit, and I have seen and testified that this one is the Son of God.'" And he did not say that the Son of God is with this one, nor that he is in this one, but that this one is he.