Council
of Chalcedon
October
8-November 1 AD 451
The
Definition of Faith of the Council of Chalcedon.
Following the holy Fathers we teach with one
voice that the Son [of God] and our Lord Jesus Christ is to be confessed as one
and the same [Person], that he is perfect in Godhead and perfect in manhood,
very God and very man, of a reasonable soul and [human] body consisting,
consubstantial with the Father as touching his Godhead, and consubstantial with
us as touching his manhood; made in all things like unto us, sin only excepted;
begotten of his Father before the worlds according to his Godhead; but in these
last days for us men and for our salvation born [into the world] of the Virgin
Mary, the Mother of God according to his manhood. This one and the same
Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son [of God] must be confessed to be in two
natures,287 unconfusedly,
immutably, indivisibly, inseparably [united], and that without the
distinction of natures being taken away by such union, but rather the peculiar
property of each nature being preserved and being united in one Person and
subsistence, not separated or divided into two persons, but one and the same
Son and only-begotten, God the Word, our Lord Jesus Christ, as the Prophets of
old time have spoken concerning him, and as the Lord Jesus Christ hath taught
us, and as the Creed of the Fathers hath delivered to us.
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