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128 God with his Logos would not cease to dwell in him; for God will be all in all.

But I shall not discuss this longer nor enter into the question as to whether the old tradition followed by Nestorius can be accepted by us, and if so, how. The main thing for me is to contrast this tradition with the trinitarian doctrine of the council of 553. Here the Holy Trinity has become something through the incarnation which it was not before. As regards the time before, it is to some extent a conceivable idea, that the three, although they are regarded as in such a way independent of each other that one alone can become man, nevertheless together make the one God; for all three are of the same spiritual substance. But after the incarnation, the Trinity is the triad of the merely spiritual Father, of the crucified (i.e. the Logos united with human flesh, soul and intellect), and of the Spirit. This understanding of the Trinity is represented by the terrible