Word sent in human form; own body life-giving; one Son receives life

When therefore we all live because of the Father, how is only one human’s body life-giving for that reason, and why do the bodies of others not have the same energy, if indeed all, as I said, both are and live because of the Father? What then do we say to this? The Word of God, having appeared in human form, has been named apostle; for he was sent to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind. And he lives because of the Father, for he has been begotten from the living Father. For the Son sprung from God and Father who is living and life had to be life by nature in every way. And since he made his own the body taken from the holy virgin, he showed it life-giving, and very reasonably; for it is the body of the life that generates life in all things. Therefore the one Son and Christ and Lord must not be divided into two sons; if indeed he is the same—life as from life and from the living Father, and life-giving also in his own body.

And together with judging he also receives the life, although he is judge as God. And what the manner of the receiving would be, he himself will teach, saying: “Because he is Son of Man.” For it is not proper to a human to be able to have the life from himself; but since the body united to him has become own to the living Word, for this reason also, very reasonably, as having its life-giving energy, he is said to receive the life; and he himself again appropriates the matter, whose own the receiving body has also become.