emptying.38 No doubt, to Cyril’s mind it changes nothing in the divine form (and so in the glory) of the eternal Logos. Yet in the perspective of pre-existence it is a fully voluntary action whereby the Logos accepts the limits (the word metron recurs frequently), and the adoxia,39 ‘ingloriousness’, of human nature—which means to say an ‘emptying out of fulness’ and a ‘lowering of what was exalted’.40 Leo the Great shows the same concern to relate the undiminishedness and impassibility of the Godhead