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The Definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451 A.D.)
Therefore, following the holy fathers, we all with one accord teach men to
acknowledge one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at once complete in
Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, consisting also of a
reasonable soul and body; of one substance with the Father as regards his
Godhead, and at the same time of one substance with us as regards his manhood;
like us in all respects, apart from sin; as regards his Godhead, begotten of the
Father before the ages, but yet as regards his manhood begotten, for us men and
for our salvation, of Mary the Virgin, the God-bearer; one and the same Christ,
Son, Lord, Only-begotten, recognized in two natures, without confusion, without
change, without division, without separation; the distinction of natures being
in no way annulled by the union, but rather the characteristics of each nature
being preserved and coming together to form one person and subsistence, not as
parted or separated into two persons, but one and the same Son and Only-begotten
God the Word, Lord Jesus Christ; even as the prophets from earliest times spoke
of him, and our Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the creed of the
fathers has handed down to us. |