Chalcedon (451): source notes

Topic: christology

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “must be confessed to be in two natures, unconfusedly, immutably, indivisibly, inseparably [united], and that without the distinction of natures being taken away by such union, but rather the peculiar property of each nature being preserved and being united in one Person and subsistence, not separated or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son and only-begotten, God the Word, our Lord Jesus Christ, as the P …”
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Bears on: X1
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “But the most holy archbishop Leo says that there are two natures in Christ unchangeably, inseparably, unconfusedly united in the one only-begotten Son our Saviour.”
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Bears on: X1
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “For the Fathers rightly granted privileges to the throne of old Rome, because it was the royal city.”
Context: Rome’s privileges grounded in its civic rank; rejected by Leo.
Bears on: P2
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “Canon 15 A woman shall not receive the laying on of hands as a deaconess under forty years of age, and then only after searching examination.”
Context: Deaconesses ordained at forty.
Bears on: T21.1
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “Following the holy Fathers we teach with one voice that the Son [of God] and our Lord Jesus Christ is to be confessed as one and the same [Person], that he is perfect in Godhead and perfect in manhood, very God and very man, of a reasonable soul and [human] body consisting, consubstantial with the Father as touching his Godhead, and consubstantial with us as touching his manhood; made in all things like us, sin only excepted.”
Context: Chalcedonian definition; the clause excludes personal sin from the likeness.
Bears on: F03.3
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “without the distinction of natures being taken away by such union, but rather the peculiar property of each nature being preserved and being united in one Person and subsistence, not separated or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son and only-begotten, God the Word, our Lord Jesus Christ”
Context: The Definition receives Leo and Cyril; personal union with preserved properties is the ground of predicating both natures’ properties of the one Christ.
Bears on: F04.3
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “Peter has spoken thus through Leo.”
Context: Acclamation after Leo’s Tome was read.
Bears on: S08.3
Status: verified (English)

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “see that the Holy Gospels have been placed alongside of your holiness, let each one of the bishops here assembled declare whether the epistle of most blessed archbishop Leo is in accordance with the exposition of the 318 fathers assembled at Nice and with the decrees of the 150 fathers afterwards assembled in the royal city.”
Context: The bishops are asked to judge the Tome against Nicaea and Constantinople before signing.
Bears on: S08.3
Status: verified (English)