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This is a Translation of Chemnitz’s De Duabus Naturis in Christo, written in 1578. This book concerns the two natures of Christ (the divine and the human), their hypostatic union and the communication of their attributes and related questions. It shows that the Christology of the Lutheran reformers is that of Scripture, the ancient church fathers, and the creeds.

but only insofar as it pertains to the person of the Son. For the entire Trinity did not become incarnate, neither the Father nor the Holy Ghost, but only the Son. In theological language we properly say that the divine essence or the divine nature of the Logos is personally united with the assumed human nature. In other words, as Lombard says on the basis of the ancients, the divine nature in the person of the Son has assumed the human nature insofar as the common essence or nature of the deity
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