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Rh was defined at Chalcedon, and insist on the first three Councils only. They have adopted as their official dogma the classical Monophysite phrase that our Lord has one nature out of two. He is "one hypostasis, one person, one united nature (after the union)." But there is, or was, some difference between their Monophysism and that of the Copts and Jacobites. The Copts and Jacobites are Severians, accepting the view of Severus of Antioch that our Lord's body is corruptible. The Armenians adopted the extremer view of Julian of Halicarnassus that it is incorruptible (, see p. 207). It is then usual to call them Julianist Monophysites. May be that this difference had something to do with the fact that they could never unite with the others. But there seems very little trace of Julianism in their formulas now. On the contrary, except for the expression "one nature" and their rejection of Chalcedon, there is nothing, on this point, to which we could object. Their creeds insist on the fact that Christ is really man, born truly of his mother, having a real body and soul. Their fault (or misfortune) is at bottom only their denial of Chalcedon and the schism thereby produced. As creeds they use that of Nicæa-Constantinople in a slightly variant form, but correct; another attributed to Saint