Letter 211

To Aristoteles the Chief Magistrate. [protevon: the leading man or first citizen of a city] The Son is said to have been sent, not insofar as he is God the Word, in the bosom of the Father, containing all things -- for from him, and unto him, are all things [cf. Romans 11:36], and in him we live, and move, and have our being [cf. Acts 17:28] -- but insofar as God the Word makes his own the sufferings of whatever body he has taken on.

Ἀπεστάλθαι λέγεται ὁ Υἱὸς, οὐ καθ’ ὃ Θεὸς Λόγος ἐστὶν ἐν κόλποις τοῦ Πατρὸς περιέχων τὰ πάντα· Ἐξ αὐτοῦ γὰρ, καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν τὰ πάντα, καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ ζῶμεν, καὶ κινούμεθα, καὶ ἐσμὲν, ἀλλὰ καθ’ ὃ ἰδιοποιεῖται ὁ Θεὸς Λόγος τὰ πάθη, οὗ ἂν εἴληφε σώματος.