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    The locution 'discernible in two natures' ought to be aba... — Carmelics
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    The locution 'discernible in two natures' ought to be abandoned in Christological discourse.

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    • 1.The term 'nature' has two applications: universal (e.g., the nature of man in general) and particular (e.g., the nature of this individual man).
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    • 2.When speaking of two natures unified in Christ, the reference cannot be to universal natures, because universal natures apply to the Father and the Spirit equally — which would entail that the Father and Spirit also became man.
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    • 3.Therefore the reference must be to particular natures — the particular nature of the divine Logos and the particular nature of Jesus the man.
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    In Arbiter (Arbitrator or Umpire), written about the same time as the Council of Constantinople and surviving only in Syriac translation, Philoponus takes the view that the locution ‘discernible in two natures’ ought to be abandoned. His main strategy is to argue that in this context the meaning of the terms ‘nature’ and ‘hypóstasis’ are essentially identical, so that if Christ is (according to (3)) one hypóstasis he cannot also (as in (4)) be discernible in two natures. The argument goes roughl
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