But Leontius,
Contr. Sev. et Eutych. Max. loc. cit., p. 277. a common form
cannot be admitted in the case of our Lord Jesus Christ. For
neither was there ever, nor is there, nor will there ever be another
Christ constituted of deity and humanity, and existing in deity and
humanity at once perfect God and perfect man. And thus in the
case of our Lord Jesus Christ we cannot speak of one nature made up of
divinity and humanity, as we do in the case of the individual made up
of soul and body Reading ὥσπερ ἐπὶ
ἀτόμου, &c.
These words are omitted in Cod. S. Hil. Reg. 10, Colb. 3, and
N.. For in
the latter case we have to do with an individual, but Christ is not an
individual. For there is no predicable form of Christlihood, so
to speak, that He possesses. And therefore we hold that there has
been a union of two perfect natures, one divine and one human; not with
disorder or confusion, or intermixture ἤ σύγκρασιν, ἢ
ἀνάκρασιν.
The mss. omit the latter., or commingling, as is said by the
God-accursed Dioscorus and by Eutyches The word
Εὐτυχής, however, is
omitted by the best copies. and Severus, and all that impious
company: and not in a personal or relative manner, or as a matter
of dignity or agreement in will, or equality in honour, or identity in
name, or good pleasure, as Nestorius, hated of God, said, and Diodorus
and Theodorus of Mopsuestia, and their diabolical tribe: but by
synthesis; that is, in subsistence, without change or confusion or
alteration or difference or separation, and we confess that in two
perfect natures there is but one subsistence of the Son of God
incarnate Procl.,
Epist. 2 ad Arm.; holding that
there is one and the same subsistence belonging to His divinity and His humanity, and
granting that the two natures are preserved in Him after the union, but
we do not hold that each is separate and by itself, but that they are
united to each other in one compound subsistence. For we look
upon the union as essential, that is, as true and not imaginary.
We say that it is essential Greg. Naz.,
Hom. 5. See also John’s Dialect.,
65., moreover, not
in the sense of two natures resulting in one compound nature, but in
the sense of a true union of them in one compound subsistence of the
Son of God, and we hold that their essential difference is
preserved. For the created remaineth created, and the uncreated,
uncreated: the mortal remaineth mortal; the immortal,
immortal: the circumscribed, circumscribed: the
uncircumscribed, uncircumscribed: the visible, visible: the
invisible, invisible. “The one part is all glorious with
wonders: while the other is the victim of insults Leo papa,
Epist. 10, ch. 4..”