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Chalcedonian Definition
451
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- By
- Council of Chalcedon
- Dates
- written 451; adopted by the Council of Chalcedon, 451
- Tradition
- ecumenical
- Also called
- Definition of Chalcedon; Symbol of Chalcedon; Chalcedonian Creed
- Follows
- The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical Notes, vol. 2, The Greek and Latin Creeds, Philip Schaff’s translation, 1877 (New York) · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org
- Transcribed
- From https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds2.iv.i.iii.htmlChecked against the scan: all, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-28
- License
- Public domain
- Notes
Schaff’s English of the confession the Council adopted at its fifth session, 22 October 451, from his “The Symbol of Chalcedon” (pp. 62–63), without the Council’s preamble or his footnotes; the words in brackets and the italics are his. He reads “in two natures” (ἐν δύο φύσεσιν), as the Latin does. CCEL’s transcription has “Christ, as” where the printing has “Christ; as”.
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We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a reasonable [rational] soul and body; consubstantial [coessential] with the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the Manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, according to the Manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ; as the prophets from the beginning [have declared] concerning him, and the Lord Jesus Christ himself has taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us.
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