A Sectional Confession of Faith.
Part II.—Dubious or Spurious Writings.
I. Wherein is the Criterion for the Apprehension of the Soul.
III. Whether the Soul is a Substance.
IV. Whether the Soul is Incorporeal.
V. Whether the Soul is Simple or Compound.
VI. Whether Our Soul is Immortal.
Topic II.
If any one affirms that the flesh of Christ is consubstantial with the divinity, and refuses to acknowledge that He, subsisting Himself in the form of God as God before all ages, emptied Himself and took the form of a servant, even as it is written, let him be anathema.
Explication.
How could the flesh, which is conditioned by time, be said to be consubstantial122 ὁμοουσιος. with the timeless divinity? For that is designated consubstantial which is the same in nature and in eternal duration without variableness.