down to an emptying of himself,7 was incarnate and was made man, that is, having taken flesh from the Holy Virgin, and having made it his own from the womb, he endured our birth, and came forth as man from a woman, not having lost what he was, but even though he was born in the assumption of flesh and blood, even so he remained what he was, God manifestly in nature and in truth. (8) We say also that the flesh was neither turned into the nature of the divinity, nor, indeed, that the ineffable nature