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The subsistence of God the Word before the Incarnation was simple
and uncompound, and incorporeal and uncreate: but after it became
flesh, it became also the subsistence of the flesh, and became
compounded of divinity which it always possessed, and of flesh which it
had assumed: and it bears the properties of the two natures, being
made known in two natures: so that the one same subsistence is both
uncreate in divinity and create in humanity, visible and invisible.
For otherwise we are compelled either to divide the one Christ and
speak of two subsistences, or to deny the distinction between the
natures and thus introduce change and confusion.
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