Wherefore we confess Him, even after the
incarnation, the one Son of God, and likewise Son of Man, one Christ,
one Lord, the only-begotten Son and Word of God, one Lord Jesus.
We reverence His two generations, one from the Father before time and
beyond cause and reason and time and nature, and one in the end for our
sake, and like to us and above us; for our sake because it was for our
salvation, like to us in that He was man born of woman Text, καὶ χρόνῳ
κυήσεως. Various
readings, καὶ
τρόπῳ
κυήσεως: καὶ
χρόνῳ καὶ
κυήσει: καὶ
νόμῳ
κυήσεως. at full time Cf. Ruf.,
Expos. Symb.; Epiph., in the epilogue to his De Hær.;
Joan. Scyth., Epist. Dionys. 4.,
and above us because it was not by seed, but by the Holy Spirit and the
Holy Virgin Mary Μαρίας is absent in
most mss., transcending the
laws of parturition. We proclaim Him not as God only, devoid of
our humanity, nor yet as man only, stripping Him of His divinity, nor
as two distinct persons, but as one and the same, at once God and man,
perfect God and perfect man, wholly God and wholly man, the same being
wholly God, even though He was also flesh and wholly man, even though He was also
most high God. And by “perfect God” and
“perfect man” we mean to emphasize the fulness and
unfailingness of the natures: while by “wholly God”
and “wholly man” we mean to lay stress on the singularity
and individuality of the subsistence.