Against two Christs on kenosis; the Full takes a slave’s form

…rather, voluntarily taking a slave’s form and becoming in the likeness of humans. And he adds that he humbled himself, becoming obedient as far as death — death on a cross. So if the one and only Christ and Lord is to be divided into two Christs and sons according to what some think — the Word of God honored the human from a woman with equality of his own dignities and joined him to himself by the mode of authority and by the shared name of sonship, as being another son particularly beside him — who then is the one who emptied himself? Or in what way has he been emptied? For if, as they say, the human thought of particularly from a woman is said to have suffered this, how or in what way has he been emptied? And how did the one who has come to be in equality with the God Word — according to the mode of worth or authority, having this conjunction with him — descend into humility? But if emptying is said of the God Word himself, again thought of particularly and as a son in part, how has he been emptied by honoring another, as those people say, and clothing him with his own dignities? And in what way has the one who gives the height of his own glory to the one joined been humbled? For if they should say that by glorifying another he himself undergoes the humility — that is, the emptying — they seem to think nothing absurd in saying that by insulting he is also exalted.

A necessary and true account almost forces us to think that it is the Full that is emptied, and that what is not by nature a slave — but is beyond the measures of slavery — would come to be in a slave’s form; and that what does not have this according to nature before it comes to be also comes to be in the likeness of humans; and that the High is humbled…