NINTH ARTICLE: WHETHER THIS IS TRUE: THIS MAN, POINTING TO CHRIST, "BEGAN TO BE"

Reply. The answer is that this assertion is not true, for Christ said of Himself: "Before Abraham was made, I am."[1372] The aforesaid proposition must be avoided both because it sounds like Arianism, and also because it is false. Although the person of the Word for which Christ stands, began to be man, yet this person did not begin to be so in the absolute sense.