The purifying Spirit came upon a virgin
within whom the Word was formed into a man,
the total price of redemption for the total mortal man.
And, seeing as God has no admixture of flesh,
while soul and mind stand, as it were, in middle ground,
the flesh, then, is both God's housemate and his icon:
God's nature mingles with what is akin to it,
and from there has communion also with the flesh.
Thus, both what deifies and what is deified are the one same God.
- St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Against Apollinarius
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