The Soul Between God and the Flesh

But there is another point we must not leave out in solving this question. The substance of God, which is wholly bodiless, cannot be brought into bodies or be received by them in the first instance unless there is some spiritual substance in between, able to receive the divine Spirit. For example, we may say that light is able to shine on all the members of the body, yet none of them can receive it except the eye, for the eye alone is able to receive light. So the Son of God is born of a virgin, not joined to the flesh alone in the first instance, but begotten with a soul as a medium between the flesh and God. With the soul, then, serving as the medium, and receiving the Word of God in the hidden citadel of the rational spirit, God was born of the Virgin without any of the dishonor you imagine. So nothing is to be thought base or unseemly where the Spirit was making holy, and where the soul that was able to receive God also became a sharer in flesh. Think nothing impossible where the power of the Most High was present. Have no thought of human weakness where the fullness of the Godhead was.