De Decr.（尼西亚信经护卫文） 14
the Word was made flesh, not only to offer up this body for all, but that we partaking of his Spirit, might be deified, a gift which we could not otherwise have gained than by his clothing himself in our created body; for hence we derive our name of 'man of God' and 'man of Christ'. And as we by receiving the Spirit, do not lose our own proper substance, so the Lord when made man for us, and bearing a body, was no less God; for he was not lessened by the envelopment of the body, but rather deified it and rendered it immortal.
“道成肉身”（约翰1：14）的目的乃是要叫他为所有的人所献（为祭），好叫我们这些领受祂（圣）灵（Spirit）的人能够被神化（divinized）。除非借由祂穿上我们受造的身体，我们无法得到这个恩典。所以，我们得以被称为“（属）神的子民”和“在基督里的人”。正如我们接受（圣）灵（Spirit）的人，并没有失去我们本身的性质（idian ousian，指人性），所以主为了我们的缘故成为一个人，披上了一个身体，并不比神（God，大写，独一的真神）小一样。祂（He, 大写，指神的儿子）并不因为被身体遮藏而降卑，反而使它神化（deified）并使它不朽。
