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We confess, then, our Lord Jesus Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, can-
Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, not be called the Mother of God, but
perfect God and perfect man, of a ra- the Mother only of Christ and not of
tional soul and a body, begotten be- God, for no one, you say, gives birth to
fore all ages from the Father in his one older than herself. And concer-
Godhead, the same in the last days, ning this utterly stupid argument...
for us and for our salvation, born of let us prove by divine testimonies both

Mary the Virgin according to his hu- that Christ is God and that Mary is the
manity, one and the same consub- Mother of God.
stantial with the Father in Godhead St. John Cassian (On the Incar-
and consubstantial with us in huma- nation of Christ Against Nestorius 2:2
nity, for a union of two natures took [A.D. 429]).
place. Therefore we confess one Christ,
one Son, one Lord. According to this The first thing which kindles
understanding of the unconfused ardor in learning is the greatness of
union, we confess the holy Virgin to be the teacher. What is greater than the

the Mother of God because God the Mother of God? What more glorious
Word took flesh and became man and than she whom Glory Itself chose?
from his very conception united to St. Ambrose of Milan
himself the temple he took from her. (The Virgins 2:2[7] [A.D. 377]).
Council of Ephesus
(Formula of Union [A.D. 431]) If anyone does not agree that
holy Mary is Mother of God, he is at

Now, you heretic, you say (whoe- odds with the Godhead”.
ver you are who deny that God was St. Gregory of Nazianz (Letter to
born of the Virgin), that Mary, the Cledonius the Priest 101 [A.D. 382])

Annunciation from Saint Ephraim Monastery,
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