Joel flesh; human sayings do not disturb; Christ Jesus means Word incarnate; 1 Cor headship

…according to “I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh.” Let no one be disturbed even if God-breathed Scripture says something about him that befits a human; rather survey his above-world glory, from power and superiority that is God-befitting and highest.

What is most likely to weaken the mind of the simpler, I will try — as far as possible and as well as can be — to make clear, setting beside each saying the solution that suffices for explanation, God again directing our path into this. For he gives “a word to those who proclaim with much power,” as the inspired singer says.

In the discourse we made toward the holy virgins I set out at great length the readier sayings that have nothing hard to grasp; in the present work I have recalled the less clear. For your God-loving majesty needed to know both — these and those — so that through both what is sound for knowledge might settle, like a light, in your most pure minds. My aim in interpreting each is to be brief as I can; and the discourse on the emptying has been set first of all.

Know this nonetheless: whenever Christ Jesus is named to us, it befits us to understand the Word from God the Father as having become human and been enfleshed.

“For I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God. The first human is of the earth, dusty” — that is, Adam — “the second is from heaven” — clearly Christ. But “just as we wore the image of the dusty,