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Reply. The answer is that the proposition is not true. The purpose
is to avoid the suspicion of favoring the Arian heresy, and moreover,
the assertion is false. But it can and must be said that Christ has a
created nature, namely, a human nature. The reason why we cannot say
that Christ is a creature, is that creation belongs to subsisting
things, and to be created is consequent to person as the one that has
being, but it is consequent to the nature as that by which something is
such as it is. But as the person of Christ is uncreated and eternal,
"creature, ' would apply not only to the created nature, but to the
person of Christ, and this is false.
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