Works of the Father; not two Christs; the child grew in wisdom

The Jews once came to Christ saying: “If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them: “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.” What then do those who foolishly divide a duality of sons and split the one Lord Jesus Christ into two Christs say even about this? About whom were the Jews saying: “If you are the Christ, tell us plainly”? And who is the one saying: “The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me”? Whose own Father do we say God is? Of the one from a woman, thought of separately and particularly — or of the Only-begotten? Yet being able to accomplish the works of the deity would not fit a human nature — how could it? Far from it. But since Christ was fulfilling the works of the Father, he would not be understood as a bare human, but rather as God who has remained what he was in blood and flesh. For holding thus, he will work equally with his own Begetter, and none of those accustomed to think well would mock the account of the mystery.

“And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him,” and again: “Jesus advanced in stature and wisdom and grace with God and humans.” Saying that our Lord Jesus the Christ is one, and assigning to him both the human things and the God-befitting ones, we firmly affirm that receiving bodily growth, and also becoming strong as the body’s parts…