down, was incarnate, and was made man, suffered, rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven’. We too must also adhere to these words and these doctrines considering what is meant when it is said that the Word which is of God ‘was incarnate and was made man’. For we do not affirm that the nature of the Word underwent a change and became flesh, or that it was transformed into a complete human being consisting of soul and body; but rather this, that the Word, having in an ineffable and inconceivable