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men indivisibilis unio in una filiationis Persona, et substantial
St. Ambrose (7) tersely :
explains
" Non alter ex Patre, alter
ex Virgine, sed item aliter ex Patre, aliter ex Virgine." St. Jerom,
opposing Elvidius, says, that
a virgin ;"
and
in another place he says (8) :
" we
believe that God was born of
" Anima et caro
Christo cum Yerbo Dei una Persona est, unus Christus."
12. It would extend the work too much to quote more from
the Holy Fathers, so I will pass on to the Decrees of Councils.
The Council of Ephesus (9), after a mature examination of the
Catholic dogma, by Scripture and Tradition, condemned Nestorius,
and deposed him from the See of Constantinople. Here
" Dominus noster Jesu Christus
are the words of the Decree :
quern suis ille blasphemis vocibus impetivit per Ss. hunc Synodum
eundem Nestorium Episcopal! dignitate privatum, et ab
universo Sacerdotum consortio, et ccetu alienum esse definit."
The Fourth General Council, that of Chalcedon, defined the
same :
thing (Act. 5)
"
Sequentes igitur Ss. Patres, unum, eumdemque
confiteri Filium, et Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum
consonanter omnes docemus, eundem perfectum in Deitate, et
eundem perfectum in humanitate, Deum verum, et hominem
verum non in duas personas partitum, aut divisum, sed unum
eundemque Filium, et unigenitum Deum Verbum, Dominum
Jesum Christum." The Third Council of Constantinople that
is, the Sixth General Council defined the same doctrine in the
last Action ; and the Seventh General Council, that is, the
Second of Nice, did the same in the Seventh Action.
OBJECTIONS ANSWERED.
13. They object, first, certain passages of the Scripture, in
which the humanity of Christ is called the temple and habitation
of God :
"
Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it
For
up But he spoke of the temple of his body" (John, ii, 19 21).
In another place it is said :
"
in him dwelleth all the fulness
of the Godhead corporeally" (Col. ii, 9). We answer, that in
7) St. Amb. delncar. c. 5. (9) Concil. Ephes. t. 3; Con. p. 115,
8) St. Hieron. trac. 49, in Joan. & seq.