7. The Apollinarian is confuted, he has no refuge to turn to, he is caught in his own net. For he himself had said, He took upon him the form of a servant, He was not chosen to be a servant. I ask again therefore, what is the meaning of _in the form of God_? He replies, In the nature of God. For there are those, says the Apostle, _which by nature are no gods_. I enquire, what is the meaning of _took upon Him the form of a servant_? Doubtless, as I have stated, the perfection of the nature and condition of man, that He might be in the likeness of man. And he has said well _the likeness_, not of the flesh, but _of men_, for He is in the same flesh. But since He alone was without sin, but all men are in sin, He was seen _in the form of man_. Wherefore the prophet also says, _He is a man yet who can know him_[227]? Man according to the flesh, but beyond man according to the Divine operation. When he touched the leper He was seen as man, but above man when He cleansed him. When He wept over Lazarus dead, He wept as man, but He was above men when He commanded the dead to come forth with bound feet. He was seen as man when He hung upon the cross, but above man when the graves were opened and He raised the dead. Sidenote: Phil. ii. 8. Sidenote: 1 Tim. ii. 5. Sidenote: S. John i. 14. 8. Nor has the Apollinarian venom any cause for complaining because it is thus it written, _And being found in fashion[228] as a man_, for Jesus is not hereby denied to be man, for in another place Paul himself calls Him, _The Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus_, but rather His manhood is established. For it is the custom and manner of Scripture so to express itself, and we read also in the Gospel, _And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father_. In the same way therefore that He is called _as_ the only-begotten, yet it is not denied that He is truly the only-begotten Son of God, so He is said to be _as_ man, yet it is not denied that the perfection of manhood existed in Him. Sidenote: Phil. ii. 7. Sidenote: Gal. iv. 4. Sidenote: Ps. cxix. 91. Sidenote: Ib. lxxxix. 20, 26, 27. Sidenote: Ib. lxxxvi. 2.