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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.

“quality” (ποιότητος) is used in the same sense. For there is not identity (ταυτότης) or equality (ἰσότης) of the natures united in the one person of Christ, but rather diversity and difference. The respect, whether it be essential or accidental, in which the one nature differs from the other and in which this person differs from other persons of the same nature is called a property or a difference. And because the properties do not depart from their subjects, therefore in Christ a natural or
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