Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Gregory Thaumaturgus/Dubious or Spurious Writings/Twelve Topics on the Faith/Topic IX

by Gregory Thaumaturgus

Topic IX.

If any one says that Christ suffers change or alteration, and refuses to acknowledge that He is unchangeable in the Spirit, though corruptible^[1] in the flesh,^[2] let him be anathema.

Explication.

How could one say that Christ suffers change or alteration, when the Lord Himself says, “I am and change not;”^[3] again, “His soul shall not be left in Hades, neither shall His flesh see corruption?”^[4]

Footnotes

1. John ii. 20, 21.
2. [Christ’s flesh being incorruptible, transubstantiation cannot be true: the holy food is digested in its material part.]
3. Mal. iii. 6.
4. Ps. xvi. 10; Acts ii. 31.