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§ 93. The Age of Justinian 601accordingly, the holy Virgin is not to be believed to be truly thebearer of God, but is called so only in word, let him be anathema.2. If any one shall deny that a unity of natures according tosubsistence [hypostatically] was made in Christ, but that God theWord dwelt in a man existing apart as one of the just, and doesnot confess the unity of natures according to subsistence, thatGod the Word with the assumed flesh remained and remains onesubsistence or person, let him be anathema.3. If any one so divides the evangelical, apostolic words inreference to the one Christ, that he introduces a division of thenatures united in Him, let him be anathema.4. It any one says that the one Jesus Christ, God the Wordand the same true Son of Man, was ignorant of future things orof the day of the last judgment, and was able to know only so faras Deity revealed to Him, as if dwelling in another, let him beanathema.5. If any one applies to Christ as if stripped of His divinitythe saying of the Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews, 206 thatHe knew obedience by experience and with strong crying andtears offered prayers and supplications to God who was able tosave Him from death, and who was perfected by the labors ofvirtue, so that from this he evidently introduces two Christs ortwo Sons, and does not believe the one and the same Christ to beconfessed and adored Son of God and Son of Man, of two and intwo natures inseparable and undivided, let him be anathema.… We have also examined concerning the Epistle of the venerableman Ibas, once bishop of the city of Edessa, concerningwhich you also ask if in early times anything concerning itwas undertaken by our Fathers, or discussed, or examined, ordetermined. Because it is known to all and especially to yourpiety, that we are ignorant of the Greek language, yet by the aid [550]of some of our company, who have knowledge of that tongue,206 Heb. 5:7, 8.