could the flesh of a man be life-giving of its own nature?) but as having become of a truth the own flesh of him, who for our sakes became and was called Son of Man. VIII Moreover we do not distribute the Words of our Saviour in the Gospels to two several subsistences or Persons. For the one and sole Christ is not twofold, although we conceive of him as consisting of two distinct elements inseparably united, even as a man is conceived of as b consisting of soul and body, and yet is not two-fold but