on the Logos himself as the person of Christ. The one who was begotten from the Father and thus “equal with His begetter” is now complete in his humanity as well. God the Son has come down and become human, and thus he possesses both the divine nature that he already had and a human nature that he took from Mary. In 486 Catholicos Acacius called a synod that addressed both the issue of celibacy and the christological matters.5 Barsauma declined to attend, on the grounds that he had military duties