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Rh his epistola synodica actually was approved, for Theodoret and Ibas were criticized for having attacked it.

The term, used in Cyril's epistola synodica, was left, it is true, unapproved; for this term could have been understood as allowing the assumption that the natures in Christ were mixed through their union. Nevertheless, what Cyril really meant by the term was accepted; for the  is interpreted in the sense of an. The Logos took on—this is the doctrine of the council—a human with  and  in such a way, that out of the two natures came one Christ, who was the subject as of the  so of the  ; the two natures, of which the one Christ is composed, are only to be distinguished abstractly , the Logos himself was born a second time through Mary , the  is.

There can be no doubt, that, measured by the