[ Anthropos ]

 IN Greek, and homo in Latin, are used by the Fathers to signify our Lord's manhood, and again, human nature, with an abruptness which, were it not so frequent, would be taken to give some sanction to Nestorianism.

 Thus Athan., speaking of His receipt of grace, says, "The Word being united to the man," Orat. iv. § 7. "Separating the hypostasis of God's Word from the Man from Mary," ibid. § 35. "I, the Word, am the Chrism, and that which has the Chrism from Me is the man," ibid. It illustrates this use of the word, that it is also used for human nature; e.g., "Of that was [ ho anthropos ] in want, because of ... the flesh and of death," Orat. i. § 41, vid. also iv. § 6.

 I will set down one or two specimens of the parallel use of homo among the Latins: "Deus cum homine miscetur; hominem induit," Cypr. Idol. ed. Ven. p. 538. "Assumptus homo in Filium Dei," Leon. Serm. 28, p. 101. "Suus [the Word's] homo," ibid. 22, p. 70. "Hic homo," Ep. 31, p. 855. "Hic homo, quem Deus suscepit." Aug. Ep. 24, 3. vid. the author's Tract. Theol. [ mia physis ], fin.