single and cognate one’.21 The operation was one act for it was the Son of God acting as man, and thus, within this one act, both his divinity and humanity were equally engaged. Significantly, already here in the first half of his theological career, Cyril realized (though he did not state it as succinctly as I am about to do) that a proper conception and articulation of the Incarnation, for soteriological reasons, demanded that the three following truths must simultaneously be upheld. Moreover
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