The Council of Chalcedon, 451 A.D.
So, following the holy fathers, we all with one voice teach the confession of one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man, of a rational soul and a body; of one essence with the Father as regards his divinity, and the same of one essence with us as regards his humanity; like us in all respects except for sin; begotten before the ages from the Father as regards his divinity, and in the last days, for us and for our salvation, the same born of Mary, the virgin God-bearer, as regards his humanity.
He is one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, acknowledged in two natures which undergo no confusion, no changes, no division, no separation. At no point was the difference between the natures taken through the union, but rather the property of both natures is preserved and comes together into a single person and a single subsistent being. He is not parted or divided into two persons, but is one and the same only-begotten Son, God, Word, Lord Jesus Christ, just as the prophets taught us from the beginning about Him, and as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself instructed us, and as the creed of the fathers handed down to us.
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