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The 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
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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