Institutes 2.14.1 — HOW TWO NATURES CONSTITUTE THE PERSON OF THE MEDIATOR.

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**HOW TWO NATURES CONSTITUTE THE PERSON OF THE MEDIATOR.**

When it is said that the Word was made flesh, we must not understand it as if he were either changed into flesh, or confusedly intermingled with flesh, but that he made choice of the Virgin’s womb as a temple in which he might dwell. He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person. For we maintain, that the divinity was so conjoined and united with the humanity, that the entire properties of each nature remain entire, and yet the two natures constitute only one Christ. If, in human affairs, any thing analogous to this great mystery can be found, the most apposite similitude Augustine employs the same similitude, Epist. 52.

Source

• source-manifest/institutes — Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, tr. Beveridge 1845 (PD)
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