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In modern times Western scholars have shown that the phrase, one incarnate nature..,,` had
originally been coined the Appollinarian school in order to build on it their theory oI a truncated
manhood in Christ. It is a Iact however that neither Cyril nor any theologian oI the Church
tradition that Iollowed him, adopted that emphasis.
33
Alexandrines also admitted that God cannot be localized. In his Incarnation of the WoAthanasius
had made this point. Cyril and others also accepted it.
34
That the Antiochenes insisted on a time gap between the Iormation oI the embryo and the union oI
the natures in support oI their two-nature Iormula was an Alexandrine accusation, which
Antiochenes deIinitely rejected.
33
Theotokos is an Alexandrine term, reIlecting the mystical strand in their theological thinking. But
theologically the Alexandrines did not say anything more than what the Antiochenes aIIirmed. See
V.C. Samuel, op. cit. pp. 196 I.
36
A Iuller discussion oI the Alexandrine criticism oI the Antiochene teaching is included in V.C.
Samuel, op. cit. pp. 276 I. The Chalcedonian deIinition is given by T.H. Bindley: The
Oecumenical Documents of the Faith, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1950. For a summary and
comments, see V.C. Samuel, op. cit. pp. 183-193.
37
A Grammarian in those times was a teacher.
38
Originally written in Greek, this book now survives only in an ancient Syriac translation. It has
been published in modern times in the Syriac with a rendering into a European language by
Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium. See Liber Contra Impium Grammaticum, ed.
Joseph Lebon, Vol. Ill, Scriptores Syri, Tomus 58, Louvain, 1967. The notes in this paper are Irom
the Syriac version, which is the original that we have now.
39
As we have noted already, Chalcedon aIIirmed that Jesus Christ was one hypostasis and one
prosopon made known in two natures`. The critics, Iollowing the Alexandrine tradition taught
that Christ was Irom two natures`, hypostatic union, one hypostasis and one prosopon and one
incarnate nature oI God the Word`.
40
Contra Gram. (Syriac) p. 151. The consubstantial` means having the same being.
41
Contra Gram. op. cit. p. 180
42
Contra. Gram. op. cit.. p. 181.
43
Ibid., pp. 183I.
44
Ibid., p. 184.