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 soul and body; consubstantial
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, unconfusedly, unchangeably,
indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by
no means taken away by the union, 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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