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Rh is apart from the very natures which are united here. I know, he says, nothing which would suit a union of different natures except a single by which and in which the natures are seen, while they are giving their characteristics to this.

For the detailed explanation of this thought an idea is important which Professor r has already noted in the Treatise of Heraclides, viz. the idea that in Christ the manhood is the of the Godhead, and the Godhead the  of the manhood. Reading Professor s book one could think that this idea appeared only once or at least seldom. Really, however, it recurs again and again. It is the leading idea of Nestorius that the natures of Christ made reciprocate use of their, the Godhead of the form of a servant, the manhood of the form of God. In this sense in the one of Christ, according to Nestorius, a union of the