The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus - Coptic ...

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EVAGRIUS
with the confession of the great Peter and is a common monument
against those of false doctrine. 64 For it ranges itself
against those who attempt to split the mystery of the dispensation
into a duality of sons; and it rejects from the congregation
of the holy those who dare to say that the Divinity of the Onlybegotten
was passible; and it opposes those who contemplate a
mixture or confusion with respect to the two natures of Christ;
and it drives out those who commit the folly of believing that
the form of the servant, which He derived from us, was of a heavenly
or some other substance; and it anathematizes those who
construct the myth that the natures of the Lord were dual
before the union, but reshape them as one after the union.
Accordingly, following the holy Fathers, 65 we confess one
and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and we all unanimously
expound that the same is complete in Divinity and the
same is complete in humanity, truly God and truly man, the
same being of a rational soul and a body, consubstantial with
the Father in respect to Divinity and the same consubstantial
with us in respect to humanity, being alike us in all respects
except for sin; 66 whereas before eternity he was born of the
Father in respect to Divinity, but at the end of days on account
of us and our salvation the same was born of the Virgin Mary
the Mother of God in respect to humanity; one and the same
Jesus Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, made known in two
natures without confusion, immutably, indivisibly, inseparably,
since the [50] di¡erence of the natures is in no way annihilated
by the union, but rather the individuality of each nature is preserved
and contributes to one person and hypostasis; not as if
being split or divided into two persons, but one and the same
Son, Only-begotten, divine Word, Lord Jesus Christ, as from
before the prophets taught concerning Him and as Christ
Himself taught us, and as the creed of the Fathers has transmitted
to us.
64 The famous Tome of Leo, ACO II.ii.1, no. 5; Greek version at ACO II.i.1, no. 11. Confession
of Peter: Matthew 16.16.
65 This paragraph contains the actual De¢nition of Chalcedon whose purpose was to
present a clear and acceptable statement about the being of Christ which would guarantee
his role as the bringer of God’s salvation to mankind.
66 Hebrews 4.15.