Christ’s body as a garment (1)

Text
Ephrem Syrus, Hom. in prol. Johannis 2.511:
The Word in his love bent down and put on the body of humanity so that he might give life to humanity … with the nails of the cross did they marr his outer garment (= body).

Martyrdom of the Catholicos Symeon (PS II) 950:
You (= Christ) turned us back from error by means of the rational robe (estlā mallīltā) which you put on from our humanity.

Narsai (PO 40) 130:
He made it (= our nature) a garment for his hiddeness.

Narsai 2.161:
(With reference to Genesis 49:11) “with his holy blood did he cleanse the robe of his corporality.” (esṭlā d-pagrānūteh)

Cyrus of Edessa 25 (Macomber):
… the divinity which was hidden in the robe of our Lord’s humanity.

Mar Abha, Synodicon Orientale 542 (ed. Chabot):
… for Christ is not ordinary man, nor is he (just) God who is naked of the garment of humanity in which he was revealed.

Synod of Ezekiel (576 CE), Synodicon Orientale 113:
… one Son in whom the oldness of our nature was renewed, and by the robe of his humanity the debt of our race was repaid.

Synod of George I (680 CE), Synodicon Orientale 241:
… the Son of God, because of the human robe in which he was wrapped so as to hide thereby the radiance of his eternal divinity.

Ishodad of Merw, Commentary on Genesis 173:
(The purpose of Aqedah, Genesis 22, was to indicate) “that the garment of the Word was going to be sacrificed on the cross”

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Cyrus of Edessa 25 (Macomber)
Ephrem Syrus, Hom. in prol. Johannis 2.511
Ishodad of Merw, Commentary on Genesis 173
Mar Abha, Synodicon Orientale 542 (ed. Chabot)
Martyrdom of the Catholicos Symeon (PS II) 950
Narsai (PO 40) 130
Narsai 2.161
Synod of Ezekiel (576 CE), Synodicon Orientale 113
Synod of George I (680 CE), Synodicon Orientale 241

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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