@Following, then, the holy fathers, we unite in teaching all men to
confess the one and only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. This selfsame
one is perfect both in deity and in humanness; this selfsame one is
also actually God and actually man, with a rational soul human soul> and a body. He is of the same reality as God as far ashis deity is concerned and of the same reality as we ourselves asfar as his humanness is concerned; thus like us in all respects, sinonly excepted. Before time began he was begotten of the Father, inrespect of his deity, and now in these "last days," for us and behalfof our salvation, this selfsame one was born of Mary the virgin, whois God-bearer in respect of his humanness.@We also teach that we apprehend this one and only Christ-Son, Lord,only-begotten -- in two natures; and we do this without confusingthe two natures, without transmuting one nature into the other,without dividing them into two separate categories, without con-trasting them according to area or function. The distinctivenessof each nature is not nullified by the union. Instead, the"properties" of each nature are conserved and both natures concurin one "person" and in one reality. They are not divided or cut into two persons, but are together the one andonly and only-begotten Wordof God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus have the prophets of old testified; thus the Lord JesusChrist himself taught us; thus the Symbol of Fathers Creed> has handed down to us.
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