Fourth Sunday of Advent

Pastor Josh Harp

When we read that “the Word became flesh“ (John 1:14), we are not to suppose that he was

changed into flesh, or mixed with flesh. The Son of God became Son of Man, not by

confusion of substance, but by unity of person. “We assert that his divinity was so joined

and united with his humanity that the property of each nature remains whole, and yet from

these two natures one Christ is constituted.” Equipped with this impeccable formula, Calvin

can readily dismiss the error of Nestorius, who separated what he should’ve distinguished

and ended with two Christs; and he can warn us against the madness of Eutyches, who so

stressed the unity of Christ’s person as to destroy both of his two nature’s. It is no more

permissible to confuse the two natures in Christ them to pull them apart.

B.A. Gerrish