And Dionysius, accordingly, did as he had learned from the Apostles. For as the heresy of Sabellius was creeping in, he was forced, as I said before, to write the letter in question, and to hurl at them what is said of the Savior with reference to His humanity and His humiliation, so as to stop them, by means of His human attributes, from saying that the Father was a son, and so to make the teaching about the Godhead of the Son easier for them, when in his other letters he calls Him from the Scriptures the word, wisdom, power, breath, and brightness of the Father.⁠a For example, in the letters written in his defense, speaking as I have described, he grows bold in the faith and in devotion to Christ. So just as the Apostles are not to be accused because of their human language about the Lord — since the Lord has been made man — but are all the more worthy of admiration for their wise reserve and timely teaching, so Dionysius is no Arian because of his letter to Euphranor and Ammonius against Sabellius. For even if he did use humble phrases and examples, they too come from the Gospels, and his justification for them is the Savior's coming in the flesh, because of which not only these things but others like them are written. For just as He is the Word of God, so afterward 'the Word became flesh'; and while 'in the beginning was the Word,' the Virgin conceived at the completion of the ages, and the Lord has become man. And the one indicated by both statements is one Person, for 'the Word became flesh.' But the expressions used about His Godhead and about His becoming man are to be interpreted with discernment and in keeping with the particular context. Whoever writes of the human attributes of the Word also knows what concerns His Godhead, and whoever expounds His Godhead is not ignorant of what belongs to His coming in the flesh; distinguishing each like a skilled and 'approved money-changer,' he will walk in the straight way of piety. So when he speaks of His weeping, he knows that the Lord, having become man, shows His human character in weeping, while as God He raises Lazarus; he knows that He used to hunger and thirst in the body, while as God He fed five thousand people from five loaves; and he knows that while a human body lay in the tomb, it was raised as God's body by the Word Himself.