Athanasian Creed (Harley) n. 67

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67. What kind of idea there is about the Lord with those who are in the doctrine of a trinity of Persons, to wit, they place His Divine above and also outside Himself, for the reason that they think of the Lord as they do of a common man, thus causing separation. Then they think of the Divine of the Father with Whom He is conjoined. Thus they speak of the conjunction of the Father with the Lord, and not of the conjunction of the Divine of the Lord and of that conjunction with the Human. Hence they approach the Father that He may be merciful for the sake of the Son. Because of this, their thoughts ascend above the Lord, and they think not at all about the Divine of the Lord, in accordance with the Athanasian faith. Yet such thinking is clearly contrary to the faith of the Church. For in the Athanasian faith, the Divine is conjoined to His Human, as soul to body, and this in Himself, etc.


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