After  this  explanation  of  what  the
words  mean,  we  are  prepared  to  assert,  on
authority  of  inspiration,  that  Christ  Jesus
the  Lord  has  two  natures.  This  is  de-
nied by  all  Socinians  and  others,  who
maintain  that  the  Lord  Jesus  was  a  mere
man;  only  differing  from  others  in  this,
that  he  was  the  best  of  prophets  and  the
best  of  men.  They  admit  only  a  single
nature,  and  scout  the  idea  of  two  natures
in  one  person;  a  union  which  their  amazing
advancement  into  the  wonders  of  the  Di-
vine nature  authorizes  them  to  declare  ab-
surd and   impossible.
The  doctrine  of  Christ's  two  natures
likewise  met  with  opposition  from  another
quarter,  that  is  to  say  from  some  who  ad-
mitted the  divinity  of  our  Lord.  A  noted
teacher  and  leader,  Eutyches  by  name,  lived


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at  Constantinople,  in  the  fifth  century.  In
striving  to  combat  Nestorius  and  others,
who  separated  the  human  and  the  divine
so  as  to  make  two  persons,  Eutyches  sought
to  deny  two  natures.  He  readily  admitted
that  there  were  originally  two  natures,  that
the  Godhead  and  the  humanity  had  been
distinct ;  but  that  upon  the  incarnation,  the
two  became  one  *  Thus  the  human  nature
was  by  him  turned  into  the  divine.  The
lower  was  absorbed  into  the  higher:  to
use  their  own  expression  the  human  was
swallowed  up  in  the  Divine.  There  is  no
ground  for  this  in  the  Scriptures.  It  is
not  said  that  the  flesh  was  made  the
Word,  but  that  the  Word  was  made  flesh.
