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80 Logos who has become twofold ''; it is the one Lord Jesus Christ who is twofold in his natures. In him are seen all the characteristics of the God-Logos, who has a nature eternal and unable to suffer and die, and also all those of the manhood, that is a nature mortal, created and able to suffer, and lastly those of the union and the incarnation .'' To understand this idea of Nestorius all thoughts of a substantial union ought to be dismissed. A substantial union—so Nestorius argues—including a confusion, a mixture, a natural composition, would result in a new being. Here the natures are unmixed: the Logos is bodyless and is continually what he is in eternity with the Father, being without bound, without limit , but the manhood has a body, is mortal, limited etc. These different natures are united not substantially but in the it  of the union ; and it is to be noticed, that for Nestorius there is nothing singular in such a union in itself, that