ON THE PERSONAL UNION OF THE TWO

the body; and yet they are not two men, but one man. And just as both soul and body retain their own essential and distinct properties and peculiar operations, so each nature in Christ retains its essential properties and operations. Because there are two natures and essences in him, namely the divine and the human, so also a double intellect, a twin will, and diverse operations—namely of the divine and human natures—are found in Christ. A person, however, is a subsisting, living, individual, intelligent, and incommunicable entity, not sustained in another, which in Greek is called hyphistamenon subsistent or hypostasis subsistence/personhood.

We shall prove from Holy Scripture that there are two natures in the one person of Christ. Isaiah 7:14 calls the son of the virgin Immanuel, that is, God with us. And 9:6 calls him who would be born the Mighty God. And Jeremiah 23:5-6 testifies that the Branch of David is Jehovah. And John 1:3 writes that the Word, which is God and with God, was made flesh, 1:14, and dwelt among us. And Acts 10:42-43 [states] that he came in the flesh. Luke 1:35: that which is born of you, the holy one, shall be called the Son of God. And one Lord, he indicates the diversity of natures in himself sufficiently, when he says in John 2:19: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up, implying that he is the same one, both he who would be destroyed and he who would raise it up. Hebrews 2:14: He is said to have become a partaker of flesh and blood. Likewise, that he assumed the seed of Abraham, verse 16. 1 Timothy 3:16: God seen in the flesh. Thus we confess in the Apostles' Creed, "And in Jesus Christ," etc., and in the Athanasian Creed. It is therefore a right faith that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man. God begotten from the substance of the Father before all ages, and man born from the substance of the Mother in time; perfect God, perfect man, subsisting from a rational soul and human flesh, equal to the Father according to the Deity, lesser than the Father according to the humanity; who although he is God and man, yet not two, but one Christ. In which of these, therefore, do you suppose my opinion differs from yours