hypostasis does not exist prior to the union between soul and body. By contrast, in Christ the Logos (and the divine nature, of course) exists prior to his human nature and is the cause of the hypostatic union. Moreover, whereas the Logos is by nature identical with his divinity but not with his humanity, as we shall see later, it would be erroneous to say that in man the person is identical by nature only to the soul (or only to the body). The symmetry in the way man is constituted (two natures,