The Chalcedonian Definition
Following the
holy Fathers we teach with one voice that the Son [of God] and our Lord Jesus
Christ is to be confessed as one and the same [Person], that he is perfect in
Godhead and perfect in manhood, very God and very man, of a reasonable soul and
[human] body consisting, consubstantial with the Father as touching his Godhead,
and consubstantial with us as touching his manhood; made in all things like unto
us, sin only excepted; begotten of his Father before the worlds according to his
Godhead; but in these last days for us men and for our salvation born [into the
world] of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God according to his manhood. This one
and the same Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son [of God] must be confessed to
be in two natures, (1) unconfusedly, immutably, indivisibly, inseparably
[united], and that without the distinction of natures being taken away by such
union, but rather the peculiar property of each nature being preserved and being
united in one Person and subsistence, not separated or divided into two persons,
but one and the same Son and only-begotten, God the Word, our Lord Jesus Christ,
as the Prophets of old time have spoken concerning him, and as the Lord Jesus
Christ hath taught us, and as the Creed of the Fathers hath delivered to us.