Letter 102

Isidore of PelusiumTimothy Reader|isidore pelusium

Against the Theopaschites and those who affirm one nature in Christ. Just as sailors hide the hook with bait and thus catch unsuspecting fish, even so wicked allies of heresies, covering their evil designs with fair words, fatally ensnare the more simple-minded. With all care therefore guard your heart lest in any respect you accept Christ’s nature after the Incarnation as an appearance. For assent to one nature involves a denial of the other –(for) either the divine nature is subject to change or our (humanity) is diminished. This is the Charybdis of Manes, by means of which he strove to lead (us) all to Gehenna.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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