Repetitio et Dilvcidior Explicatio Consensvs Veteris Orthodoxae Catholicaeque Christi Ecclesiae in doctrina prophetica & apostolica, de inconfusis proprietatibus naturarum Christi Domini, in vna indiuisa persona permanentibus adeoque de veritate carnis Christi ad dexteram Dei patris, in coelo sedentis & non ubique praesentis

EXPLANATION OF THE CONSENSUS. 4

How one nature becomes another.

mystery of our redemption. Paul used this same manner of speech, saying to Timothy, God was manifested in the flesh. And he testifies elsewhere that Jesus Christ came into the world. But when we hear that God was manifested in the flesh, or that the Son of God, Jesus Christ, came in the flesh, or that the Word was made flesh, we understand clearly that God was not changed into flesh. For just as God cannot be changed, so if flesh were to lose its own nature and pass into God, Christ would no longer be man. But now, Christ the Lord is preached by the apostles as both true God and true man.

Teachers of the sacred scriptures most correctly explain that one substance or nature becomes another in a twofold manner. First, indeed, through a change, conversion, or transition of one thing or substance or nature into another, such that the latter gives way and the former takes its place. Thus we read that water was made wine.
John 2.

But the Word was not made flesh in that manner. Second, one thing becomes another through the assumption or addition of one substance to another, such that from both, without change (that is, each remaining integral in its own properties), there exists one subject or one hypostasis individual reality/person. Thus, man is read to have been made into a living soul. For the living soul was added through the inspiration of God to the body of Adam, and he was made from a soul and
Gen. 2.