Athanasian Creed (Harley) n. 215

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215. WHAT IS IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND WHAT IN THE LAST

It is known from the two passages in Matthew and in Luke which have been quoted that the Lord is the Son of God, or that His Father was the very Divine which created the universe. If, therefore, as Man He is the Son of God it follows also that the Lord as Man is God. It is known that every man is named from his Father and is called his son from this reason that the life of every man is from his father and only the covering supplied in the mother. Hence it is that everyone has his name from the father and not from the mother. Why, therefore, when it is known that His Father was His Divine, is He called in the Church "the son of Mary," from which comes the belief that the Lord was thus born a mere man, or not God as to the Human?


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