1. ON THE PERSON OF CHRIST
I read the Athanasian Creed 1 in Calvin's presence and with those who were there:
The right faith is that we believe and confess: that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man, God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man of the substance [of the mother], born into the world...
Who, although He be God and Man, yet He is not two, but one Christ;
One, not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking up of the Manhood into God;
One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person.
For as the reasonable soul and the flesh is one man, so God and Man is one Christ.
Notes de bas de page:
1. THE ATHANASIAN CREED, from THE FORMULA CONCORDIAE, LEIPZIG 1756 pp. 2, 3, 4.
