Christ second Adam our head; Father head of the Word; he became poor being rich

let us also wear the image of the heavenly,” as it is written. So the first head of our race — that is, beginning — was the one of earth and dust. But since Christ has been named second Adam, he has been set as head — that is, beginning — of those being remolded through him toward him into incorruption by sanctification in the Spirit.

So he is our beginning — that is, our head — insofar as he has appeared as human; yet as God by nature he himself has as head the Father in the heavens, for the Word, being God, has been begotten from him by nature. That “head” signifies “beginning” confirms, for minds that doubt, that the man became head of the woman: for she was taken from him.

So there is one Christ and Son and Lord, who as God by nature has the Father in the heavens as head, and who has become head for us because of kinship according to the flesh.

“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, for our sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.” See clearly here both the superiority of the divine and unmixed nature and the lowliness of the measures of humanity — and besides these the agreement of both into unity, the Only-begotten having lowered himself into this.

For no word could interpret the riches of the deity, while humanity is exceedingly poor, or rather all that it has is God-given and from above — and before all, even being itself: for it was called by God into existence, not existing before. But the rich…