“For
it is just as when a sword has been heated: what is able to cut becomes able to
burn and what is able to burn becomes able to cut (for just as fire was united
to iron, thus also the burning of fire was united to the cutting of the iron).
The iron has become able to burn by a union with the fire, and the fire becomes
able to cut by a union with the iron. Neither thing has undergone a change with
respect to mode of exchange with the other in the union, but each has remained,
in the identity of what was composed in the union, without falling from what
belonged to it according to nature. Likewise, in the mystery of the divine
incarnation, the divine and the human were united hypostatically, where neither
of the natural activities was displaced because of the union, and neither was
acquired after the union as something unrelated, as though it was divided both
from what was composed and what was co-hypostasized.”
Maximus the Confessor (580 - 662)
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