Definition of Chalcedon — Chapter 1: The Definition of Faith

Chapter 1: The Definition of Faith

Section 1. Following, then, the holy Fathers, we all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us one and the same Son, the self-same perfect in Godhead, the self-same perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man; the self-same of a rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father according to the Godhead, the self-same consubstantial with us according to the manhood; like us in all things, sin apart;

Section 2. before the ages begotten of the Father as to the Godhead, but in the last days, the self-same, for us and for our salvation born of Mary the Virgin Theotokos as to the manhood;

Section 3. one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, made known in two natures without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the difference of the natures being in no way removed because of the union, but rather the properties of each nature being preserved, and both concurring into one person and one subsistence — not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son and Only-begotten God, Word, Lord, Jesus Christ;

Section 4. even as the Prophets from the beginning spoke concerning him, and our Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the Symbol of the Fathers has handed down to us.