Chapter 1 (26): 1. Whether The Divine Nature Ought To Be Said To Be Born Of The
Distinction VIII | 37 Chapter 3 (25) 1. WHY HE IS NOT TO BE CALLED THE LORD'S MAN. And although he is called 'man God,' yet he is not fittingly called 'the Lord's man.' Hence
Augustine in the book of Retractations: "I do not see whether he who is the mediator of God and men, Christ Jesus,! may rightly be called the Lord's man although he is entirely Lord; and that I might have used the expression, I found it in some Catholic writers. But wherever I have said this, I wish it unsaid. For afterwards I saw that it ought not to be said, although it may be defended with some reason."
2. According to them, the person of the Son is also said to exist in or from two natures according to adherence and in-essence: for the one inheres in him, the other is in him.
3. THAT THE FOREGOING DO NOT SUFFICE FOR AN UNDERSTANDING OF
THIS QUESTION. With sufficient diligence, I have treated the question posed above according to the views of different people, without prejudice or assertion of my own. And yet, in such a great matter and one so difficult to understand, I do not wish the reader to believe that our disputation should suffice. But let him also read other, perhaps better considered and argued, treatments. As for those things which may trouble him here, let him, if he can, examine them with a more careful and more discerning mind, always holding firmly that (ON ECCLESIASTICAL DOGMAS): "God took on man, man passed into God, not by a changeableness of nature, but by God's condescension: so that God is neither changed into human substance by taking on man, nor is man changed into the divine one by being glorified into God, because a transformation or changeableness makes for a diminution of nature and the abolition of substance."
DISTINCTION VIII
Chapter 1 (26)
1. WHETHER THE DIVINE NATURE OUGHT TO BE SAID TO BE BORN OF THE
VIRGIN. After the aforesaid, it must be considered whether it is to be granted concerning the divine nature that it was born of the Virgin, as it is said to have become flesh in the Virgin.—And it seems that it ought not at all to be said to be born of the Virgin, since it was not born of the Father: for a thing which is not begotten of the Father does not seem to be born of the Mother, lest some thing have the name of filiation as to humanity
ICL Det 25:
Augustine, Retractationes, bk 1 c19 n8.
3Gennadius, Liber seu diffinitio ecclesiasticorum dogmatum, C2.
