Chalcedonian Creed
We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one
consent, teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus
Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly
God and truly man, of a reasonable [rational] soul and body;
consubstantial [co-essential] with the Father according to the Godhead,
and consubstantial with us according to the Manhood; in all things like
unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Father according
to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation,
born of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, according to the Manhood;
one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only begotten, to be acknowledged in
two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably;
the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the unity,
but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring
in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two
persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the
Lord Jesus Christ; as the prophets from the beginning [have declared]
concerning him, and the Lord Jesus Christ himself has taught us, and the
Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us. |
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