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This translation of a major document in patristic Christology, the first translation since the nineteenth century, is based upon the modern critical edition of Theodoret’s Greek text. Theodoret was the leading theologian of his time in the Antiochene tradition, and in the Eranistes (written in 447) he offers a lengthy exposition of his Christology, coupled with a refutation of the so-called...

chattering and imposing laws on us about divine names. Here the name of mediator itself reveals divinity and humanity. He was not called a mediator because he was only God, for how could he have mediated between us and God if he had nothing in common with us? But since he was joined to the Father as God with the same substance, and since he was joined to us as a human being because he took from us the form of the slave,24 he has rightly been called a mediator, because he joined diverse realities
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