153. Gr. o( pa~j ga_r ko&smoj e0n tw~| a)nqrw&pw| perigra&fetai .
154. Ephes. i, 10.
155. Cosmas, who was most probably a Nestorian, here hits at the Docetae and Gnostics, who held that the human nature of Jesus Christ was a semblance and not a reality; and hits also at the Monophysites, who maintained that Jesus Christ had but one nature, or that the human and divine were so intimately united as to form one nature only.
156. Cosmas refers here to the Arian heretics, who held that the Son was not co-equal or co-eternal with the Father, but was created by an act of the divine will. The Nestorians have always maintained that Christ was perfect God and perfect man, and that these natures were distinct.
157. Matt, vii, 23.
158. Matt, xxv, 34.
159. Montfaucon, following the punctuation, construes the words dia_ th_n eu)krasi/an with the clause which follows, but they seem to belong to that which precedes.
160. Acts xvii, 26. Cosmas argues that as scripture speaks only of two classes of men, the terrestrial and the subterranean, and by the latter means those buried in the earth, there can be none under the earth.
161. Philipp. ii, 10.
162. Luke x, 19.
163. I Cor. iv, 9.
164. Dan. x, 13 seqq.
165. Acts vi, 13.
166. Matt, xviii, 10.
167. Psalm cxxxix, 8.
168. Psalm ciii, i.
169. Psalm lxxxiv, 2.
170. Psalm cxix, 11.
171. Psalm li, 10.
172. Matt, xv, 17.
173. Luke xvii, 21.
174. Luke xxiii, 43
175. Matt, xxvii, 50
176. Ephes. iv, 14.
177. Gr. 9Agiosu&nhj .