(τὸ ἀνόητον) that he might himself be mind in it (ἶνʼ αὐτὸς ᾖ νοῦς ἐν αὐτῷ).’21 It is to be noted that the defence of the complete reality and integrity of the historical humanity of Christ by Nicene theologians was offered mainly on soteriological grounds. It was the whole man that the Son of God came to redeem by becoming man himself and effecting our salvation in and through the very humanity he appropriated from us—if the humanity of Christ were in any way deficient, all that he