Chalcedon Creed
The decree resulting from the 4th Ecumenical Council of
Chalcedon in 451 AD.
We then, following the holy Father, all with one consent,
teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same
perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a
reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with the Father according to the
Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the manhood, in all things like
unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Father according to the
Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the
Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, according to the manhood; one the same Christ,
Son, Lord, Only begotten, in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably,
indivisibly, inseparably, the distinction of natures being by no means taken
away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and
concurring in one person and one subsistence, not parted or divided into two
persons, but one and the same Son and Only-begotten, God the Word, the Lord
Jesus Christ; as the prophets form the beginning have declared concerning Him,
and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself has taught us, and the creed of the holy
Fathers has handed down to us.
