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is from seed cast from a man, and the conception is of the man's seed; and the seed is the hypostasis at the same time as the conception, with the woman supplying her own blood and a joining taking place, and the bloods subsisting in the man's seed, and the seed itself becoming a hypostasis for them and the seed becoming a common hypostasis for itself and for the woman's bloods. But in the case of the holy virgin, it was not so; for the conception was not from a man's seed, but after the consent of the holy virgin, the Holy Spirit came upon her according to the word of the Lord which the angel spoke, purifying her and providing the power to receive the divinity of the Word, and then the enhypostatic wisdom and power of God the Most High overshadowed her, the Son of God, consubstantial with the Father, like a divine seed, and formed for Himself from her pure and most clean bloods flesh animated with a rational and intellectual soul, He Himself having become its hypostasis. Thus, being God by nature from the Father, He became also man by nature from a mother. And He is the same, this and that, truly perfect God and truly perfect man by nature without falsehood, one hypostasis in two natures indivisibly. For we do not confess a man who was deified, but God who was incarnate and made man; "for the Word was made flesh." And we proclaim the same to be whole God and whole man, whole God with His flesh and whole man with His super-divine divinity. And we profess one incarnate nature of God the Word. And we know and proclaim two nativities of the Son of God by nature and God, one from the Father before all ages, incorporeally and without cause, and one in the last times for our salvation from the holy virgin, having been made flesh and become man, both bodily and in time. Wherefore we also preach the holy virgin as Theotokos, since she gave birth to God, properly and truly made flesh from her. We know her indeed as Christotokos—for she bore Christ—, but since the God-fighting Nestorius misused this term for the destruction of the term Theotokos, we do not name her Christotokos, but from the better term, Theotokos; for other mothers of prophets and kings are also bearers of Christs (anointed ones), but only the holy virgin Mary is Theotokos. And we know two natures of the one Christ, the Son of God, and two natural wills and energies; for He acts in each form and wills that which is proper to it, with the communion of the other. And we worship a Trinity, not a Tetrad, even after the incarnation of the Son of God, one Father, one Son of God and of the virgin, the same God and man, and one Holy Spirit, unto the ages. Amen.

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γίνεται σπορᾶς ἐξ ἀνδρὸς καταβαλλομένης, καὶ τῆς τοῦ ἀνδρὸς σπορᾶς ἐστιν ἡ σύλληψις· καὶ ἡ σπορά ἐστιν ἡ ὑπόστασις ἅμα τῇ συλλήψει χορηγούσης τῆς γυναικὸς τὰ οἰκεῖα αἵματα καὶ συναφείας γινομένης, καὶ ἐν τῇ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς σπορᾷ ὑφισταμένων τῶν αἱμάτων, καὶ αὐτῆς τῆς σπορᾶς γινομένης αὐτοῖς ὑποστάσεως καὶ κοινῆς ὑποστάσεως ἑαυτῇ καὶ τοῖς γυναικείοις αἵμασι τῆς σπορᾶς γινομένης. Ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου οὐχ οὕτως· οὐ γὰρ ἐκ σπορᾶς ἀνδρὸς ἡ σύλληψις, ἀλλὰ μετὰ τὴν συγκατάθεσιν τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἐπῆλθεν ἐπ' αὐτὴν κατὰ τὸν τοῦ κυρίου λόγον, ὃν εἶπεν ὁ ἄγγελος, καθαῖρον αὐτὴν καὶ δύναμιν δεκτικὴν τῆς τοῦ λόγου θεότητος παρέχον, καὶ τότε ἐπεσκίασεν ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ὑψίστου ἐνυπόστατος σοφία καὶ δύναμις, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ, ὁ τῷ πατρὶ ὁμοούσιος, οἱονεὶ θεῖος σπόρος, καὶ συνέπηξεν ἑαυτῷ ἐκ τῶν ἁγνῶν καὶ καθαρωτάτων αὐτῆς αἱμάτων σάρκα ἐψυχωμένην ψυχῇ λογικῇ τε καὶ νοερᾷ, αὐτὸς γεγονὼς αὐτῇ ὑπόστασις. Οὕτω τε θεὸς ὑπάρχων ἐκ πατρὸς φύσει γέγονε καὶ φύσει ἄνθρωπος ἐκ μητρός. Ἔστι τε ὁ αὐτὸς τοῦτο κἀκεῖνο, θεὸς τέλειος ἀληθῶς καὶ φύσει τέλειος ἄνθρωπος ἀψευδῶς, μία ὑπόστασις ἐν δυσὶν ἀδιαιρέτως ταῖς φύσεσιν. Οὐ γὰρ ἄνθρωπον ἀποθεωθέντα ὁμολογοῦμεν, ἀλλὰ θεὸν σεσαρκωμένον καὶ ἐνανθρωπήσαντα· «ὁ λόγος γὰρ σὰρξ ἐγένετο.» Καὶ ὅλον θεὸν καὶ ὅλον ἄνθρωπον τὸν αὐτὸν καταγγέλλομεν, ὅλον θεὸν μετὰ τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ ὅλον ἄνθρωπον μετὰ τῆς ὑπερθέου αὐτοῦ θεότητος. Καὶ μίαν φύσιν τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου σεσαρκωμένην δογματίζομεν. Καὶ δύο τοῦ φύσει υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ θεοῦ τὰς γεννήσεις γινώσκομέν τε καὶ καταγγέλλομεν, μίαν τὴν ἐκ πατρὸς προαιώνιον ἀσωμάτως καὶ ἀναιτίως καὶ μίαν τὴν ἐπ' ἐσχάτων τῶν χρόνων διὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν σωτηρίαν ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου σαρκωθέντος καὶ ἐνανθρωπήσαντος, σωματικήν τε καὶ χρονικήν. ∆ιὸ καὶ θεοτόκον τὴν ἁγίαν παρθένον κηρύττομεν ὡς θεὸν κυρίως καὶ ἀληθῶς ἐξ αὐτῆς σαρκωθέντα γεννήσασαν. Χριστοτόκον δὲ αὐτὴν ἴσμεν μέν-Χριστὸν γὰρ ἐγέννησε-, ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ ἐπ' ἀναιρέσει τῆς θεοτόκος φωνῆς ὁ θεώλης Νεστόριος ταύτῃ κατεχρήσατο, οὐ χριστοτόκον, ἀλλ' ἐκ τοῦ κρείττονος ταύτην θεοτόκον κατονομάζομεν· χριστοτόκοι γὰρ καὶ ἄλλαι προφητῶν καὶ βασιλέων μητέρες, μόνη δὲ θεοτόκος ἡ ἁγία παρθένος Μαρία. ∆ύο δὲ τὰς φύσεις τοῦ ἑνὸς Χριστοῦ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ ἴσμεν καὶ δύο τὰς φυσικὰς θελήσεις τε καὶ ἐνεργείας· ἐνεργεῖ γὰρ ἐν ἑκατέρᾳ μορφῇ καὶ θέλει τοῦθ', ὅπερ ἴδιον ἔσχηκεν μετὰ τῆς θατέρου κοινωνίας. Καὶ τριάδι, οὐ τετράδι, καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἐνανθρώπησιν τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ λατρεύομεν, ἑνὶ πατρί, ἑνὶ υἱῷ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τῆς παρθένου, τῷ αὐτῷ θεῷ καὶ ἀνθρώπῳ, καὶ ἑνὶ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι, εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. Ἀμήν.