Topic X.

If any one affirms that Christ assumed the man only in part, and refuses to acknowledge that He was made in all things like us, apart from sin, let him be anathema.

52Explication.

How could one say that Christ assumed the man only in part, when the Lord Himself says, “I lay down my life, that I might take it again, for the sheep;”⁴¹⁶⁴¹⁶    John x. 17. and, “My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed;”⁴¹⁷⁴¹⁷    John vi. 55. and, “He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life?”⁴¹⁸⁴¹⁸    John vi. 56.