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

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diverse natures, God and Man.
The prophets and apostles of Christ beautifully preached this undivided person when they taught that Christ the Lord is a priest and mediator, given to us by the Father—or rather, confirmed to us by oath—so that he might be our pontiff and mediator forever. Whence it is gathered with no trouble that the person of Christ, God and Man, is an inseparable person, for when either the divine majesty or the human nature is denied in Christ, Christ can neither be, nor be called, an eternal pontiff or mediator anymore. For according to the scriptures, he will not be a pontiff and mediator unless we confess him to be as true man as he is true God. The apostle Paul, testifying to this very thing, says, There is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a price of redemption for all. And again, One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all. In this manner, I say, the prophetic and apostolic scripture preaches one Christ the Savior to us, and attributes to the one whatever it attributes, and speaks only of the one and undivided [person], so that, however, it does not confuse or mix the natures in him.

1. Timot. 2.

Ephel. 4.

And indeed, nature, says the blessed Augustine in his book original: "De moribus Manichaeorum" On the Customs of the Manichaeans, book 2, chapter 1, is nothing other than that which is understood to be something in its own kind. This is what we now call essence
Concerning the word Nature.