42. The fact of the essence declared to be one in
the Father and the Son having one name on account of their similarity
of nature seemed to offer an opportunity to heretics to declare that
the Unborn God, or a part of Him, was born of Mary. The danger
was met by the wholesome resolution that he who declared this should be
anathema. For the unity of the name which religion employs and
which is based on the exact similarity of their natural essence, has
not repudiated the Person of the begotten essence so as to represent,
under cover of the unity of name, that the substance of God is singular
and undifferentiated because we predicate one name for the essence of
each, that is, predicate one God, on account of the exactly similar
substance of the undivided nature in each Person.