On this day in 451, the first meeting of the Council of Chalcedon was held. Two weeks later, on October 22, the council produced the following creed.
"We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach men to
confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect
in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a
reasonable [rational] soul and body; consubstantial [co-essential] with
the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us
according to the Manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin;
begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in
these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the Virgin
Mary, the Mother of God, according to the Manhood; one and the same
Christ, Son, Lord, only begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures,
inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of
natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the
property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person
and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one
and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus
Christ; as the prophets from the beginning [have declared] concerning
Him, and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself has taught us, and the Creed of
the holy Fathers has handed down to us."
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