own sake after being begotten of the Father. For it is purposeless, and at the same time also stupid, to say that he who exists before all ages and is coeternal with the Father needs a second beginning for existence. But since for our sake and for our salvation he united a human nature to himself hypostatically and was born from a woman, in this manner, he is said to have been born according to the flesh. For an ordinary man was not born of the Holy Virgin and then the Word descended into him, but,