52. Amid these irreverent and ill-grounded theories the faith of the Church, inspired by the teaching of the Apostles, has recognised a birth of Christ, but no beginning. It knows of the dispensation, but of no division678    i.e. it realizes the plan by which the second Person of the Trinity chose to take a human form, but refuses to separate the Divine from the human in Jesus.: it refuses to make a separation in Jesus Christ679    Reading partitur for Mss.patitur.; whereby Jesus is one and Christ another; nor does it distinguish the Son of Man from the Son of God, lest perhaps the Son of God be not regarded as Son of Man also. It does not absorb the Son of God in the Son of Man; nor does it by a tripartite belief680    Apollinarianism. tear asunder Christ, Whose coat woven from the top throughout was not parted, dividing Jesus Christ into the Word, a body and a soul; nor, on the other hand, does it absorb the Word in body and soul. To it He is perfectly God the Word, and perfectly Christ the Man. To this alone we hold fast in the mystery of our confession, namely, the faith that Christ is none other than Jesus, and the doctrine that Jesus is none other than Christ.

52. Fides vera haereticae adversa.---Sed inter 0384B has impias infirmasque sententias, Ecclesiae fides apostolocis imbuta doctrinis novit in Christo nativitatem, sed ignorat exordium. Scit dispensationem, sed nescit divisionem. Non patitur Christum Jesum, ut Jesus non ipse sit Christus: nec filium hominis discernit a Dei filio, ne filius Dei forte non et filius hominis intelligatur. Non absumit filium Dei in filium hominis. Neque tripartita Christum fide scindit, cujus de super texta vestis inscissa est (Joan., XIX, 23): ut Jesum Christum et in Verbum et in animam et in corpus incidat, neque rursum Deum Verbum et in animam et in corpus absumat. Totum ei Deus Verbum est, totum ei homo Christus est; retinens hoc in sacramento confessionis suae unum, nec Christum aliud credere quam Jesum, nec Jesum 0384C aliud praedicare quam Christum .