Athanasian Creed (Harley) n. 46

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46. In the Creed of Athanasius they assert that His Human consists of a rational soul and body, and this, as if the soul of a man is from the mother. But the soul of every man is from the father, and its clothing from the mother, and so in these words Athanasius is mistaken. The soul of the Lord was the Divine Itself, as is confirmed in Matthew and Luke. Hence it is clear that His soul was His Own Divine Itself. Also, because the body is not the man, apart from the soul - indeed everything of the body even in its least particulars lives from the soul - consequently such as is the soul, so is the body, and the body is formed to the likeness of the soul, similarly with the young of animals, eggs and even sprouts of plants. Thus they make three parts in the Lord, when yet there are two, the Divine and the Human, and these two are only one Person.


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