Severus of Antioch: source notes
Severus of Antioch: source notes
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Topic: christology
CHR S1: Select Letters (Brooks), Book I
- Source: https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/severus_coll_2_letters.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “one nature of God the Word incarnate himself, as the holy Cyril also says in the work against Diodorus: «Let him know therefore that the body which was born at Bethlehem, even if it is not the same as the Word from God and the Father (I mean in natural characteristics), yet nevertheless became his, not anyone else’s separate from the Son: and there is recognised to be one Son and Christ and Lord and Word who took fle …”
- Context: Non-Chalcedonian formula from Cyril.
- Bears on: X1
- Status: verified (English)
CHR S2: Select Letters (Brooks), Book I
- Source: https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/severus_coll_2_letters.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “impious letter state in what he said: «For each of the forms effects in partnership with the other that which belongs to itself, the Word doing that which belongs to the Word, and the body performing the things which belong to the body» 18. …”
- Context: Rejects Leo’s Tome and its two operations.
- Bears on: X1, X2
- Status: verified (English)