The Definition of the Council
of Chalcedon (451 A.D)
Introduction
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.
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