among the saints who had opposed them. They listed them one by one—though they were many—and they anathematized the proponents of the single will(1).

After pronouncing these curses, they took their seats and, as they claimed, distilled the “upright creed,” saying:

“We believe in the One of the Godhead(2), the only-begotten Son, the eternal Word, co-essential with the divine Father. He is our Lord Jesus Christ, existing in two perfect natures, with two operations and two wills, in one hypostasis and one person, known perfectly in His divinity and perfectly(3) in His humanity.

“As the Council of Chalcedon previously testified, so do we testify that the divine Son, in the last days, united with(4) the holy Virgin Lady Mary, taking a human body endowed with two souls, through the mercy of God Most High, the Lover of mankind. No commingling, corruption, division, or separation befell Him; rather, He is one—acting as a human being acts according to His human nature and as God acts according to His divine nature—He who is the only-begotten Son(5) and the eternal Word incarnate(6), until He truly ‘became flesh,’ as the Holy Gospel declares, without departing from His eternal abode and without change; yet(7) He possesses two operations, two wills, and two natures—divine and human—by both of which the true confession is made, and each nature works in communion with its companion,