So we say to them:

Your own words entail that the Creator is veiled by the rational soul, and that the rational soul is in turn veiled by the body. Yet you also state explicitly that the very Word—which, in your doctrine, is the Creator, indeed God Himself—created for Itself a human being and then hid within him. You say: “He is a complete human being, possessing his body, his sanguine (animal) soul, and his verbal spirit, that is, the rational soul which is the image and likeness of God in man; this became a dwelling for God wherein He indwelt and concealed Himself.”

Thus you have openly affirmed that the body together with the spirit is a residence for God’s indwelling and self-concealment, and that He is the One who created that body and that spirit. You further maintain that this creative, hidden Word— which you call God—became incarnate from Mary the Virgin.

If, then, God the Creator became incarnate from Mary the Virgin, it is evident that this occurred before the rational soul that you name the “verbal spirit” was breathed into the Messiah. And if the Creator—exalted be He—had already adhered to a body void of spirit, an adhesion stronger than mere indwelling, and had taken that body as a veil for Himself before the infusion of the verbal spirit into it, how can it be said that He indwelt only in the spirit and not in the body, when He had already fused with the body and made part of it a dwelling and a veil for Himself before breathing into it the verbal spirit?

You also say that, on this basis, the creative Word of God intermingled with the complete human nature in its body, its blood, and its rational, verbal spirit. This is an explicit admission that the Creator mingled with the human being in his body, his blood, and his spirit.