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Rh the form of appearance of the flesh which the Logos could take on.

Nevertheless the number of those places in which Nestorius asserts that there was one in Christ is much greater than that of those in which he speaks about the  in Christ. The former are found in great number already in the earlier known fragments and in a still greater in the Treatise of Heraclides. This formula is to be held as characteristic of the teaching of Nestorius. He repeats again and again that the natures were united in the one of Christ. But what does he understand by this?

At first we must answer: Nestorius has in his mind the undivided appearance of the historic Jesus Christ. For he says, very often, that Christ is the one of the union. And he argued with Cyril: You start in your account with the creator of the natures and not with the ''of the union. It is not the''