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88 only by physical categories as in Athanasius' de incarnatione that Nestorius argues. The idea is further not exhausted by the thought that the Logos took such a form of a servant, as was without sin in its . The main thing is that the Logos in the form of a servant brought into existence a sinless man ; hence the stress is laid on the moral and religious development of Jesus.

The man alone, even the second Adam, would not have been able to remain sinless ; but God was acting in him, and observed the commandments in his place because he was in this nature. Christ had all that belongs to a true man, but ''without being deprived of the union with God the Logos. God's will was his own will ; he raised his soul to God conforming his volitions to those of God, so that he was an image of the archetype of the''