False piety mask; many lords vs one Lord

and shaken into what is ugly — or rather already bent toward the last impiety.

I think that as you search his divine mystery with a sharp eye of mind, you see those who want to snatch people away. They mold a pious mask onto their own words, yet they themselves are sharper than any missile.

As far as truth’s force goes, they deny the Master who bought them — that is, Christ. But fearing the grief of those who are used to piety, and their admirable zeal, they confess that the one born from the holy virgin is also God, and Lord, and Son of God.

If a simple hearer takes their words, he will likely think they speak what is right and fitting, and not out of step with the doctrines of the truth. But if someone chooses to thin them by inquiry and put what they say to an exact test, he will not find it simple.

For “there are many gods and many lords in heaven and on earth,” as the blessed Paul writes to us, “yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him.”

When we name Jesus Christ, we mean the Word from God the Father who has appeared in human form — not holding dignity as a share of grace imported from outside, but being in truth what he is believed to be.

Being God by nature even without flesh, he remained God also with flesh. Being Son by nature even before flesh, he remained Son also when he became flesh. Being truly Lord of all, in such a