{"id":2541,"date":"2012-12-29T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2013-01-02T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:50:34","slug":"proclus-of-constantinople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2541","title":{"rendered":"Proclus of Constantinople"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you….Then you shall know that I\u00a0 am\u00a0 the Lord, that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done.\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 16:60, 62-63<\/em><\/p>\n

This atonement was made by Jesus Christ, concerning whose Incarnation Proclus of Constantinople, a fifth-century archbishop, writes:<\/p>\n

“For even though it was the beginning of His humanity, His divinity remained\u00a0beginningless; one form assumed another form, but the Trinity did not increase to a\u00a0quaternity, for this was a union of two natures, the birth of one Son, and the unconfused union of the Word with the flesh.\u00a0 He\u00a0who\u00a0was born according to the flesh is God from the Father, and man from me. O awesome and wondrous mystery! Who ever saw a king take on the appearance of a condemned man? Or when did the eye ever take in the sight of the entire sun? And when was human flesh ever essentially united without change to God, if not yesterday? When the Virgin was heavy with child, when the Word entered in through her sense of hearing, when the Holy Spirit fashioned the living temple of the body, when the Most High emptied Himself into the form of a servant, when the womb of a virgin contained within herself the mystery of the divine dispensation. O womb wider than the heavens! O birth that bears salvation! O womb of clay and bridal chamber of the Creator! O birth, a ransom for the sin of the world! O mystery, the manner of which I am unable to explain! O birth, not the beginning of God\u2019s existence, not a change of nature, nor a\u00a0diminishing\u00a0of power, neither a separation from the beginningless\u00a0progenitor, but the essential union of God and flesh; the blessing of birth; the advent of God; the wonder hidden by God from the ages; the indivisible mystery of (divine and human) natures; the abolition of the curse; the overturning of the sentence which stood against us; the birth of the one and only Son, His\u00a0beginningless\u00a0existence, His birth in the flesh from the Virgin and veneration by all creation, joyfully announced and freely given to all!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you….Then you shall know that I\u00a0 am\u00a0 the Lord, that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for … <\/p>\n

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