a priest of God, and one instructed in divine dogmas, as to be ready to provide a defense to everyone who asks him for an account of the hope and grace that is in us. For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. Since, therefore, we too, by the mercy of Christ our God, the King of all, have been allotted the priesthood of the Gospel, we think rightly and faultlessly, always following the divine Scriptures and the expositions of the holy Fathers A who gathered at Nicaea and in Constantinople, and those who gathered in Ephesus under Cyril of holy memory, who was bishop of the Alexandrians. And we preach our one Lord Jesus Christ, begotten before the ages from God the Father without beginning according to his divinity, but in the last days the same [begotten] for us and for our salvation from Mary the Virgin according to his humanity, perfect God and perfect man, the same in the assumption of a rational soul and body, consubstantial with the Father according to the divinity, and consubstantial with the mother the same according to the humanity. For we confess Christ in two natures B after the incarnation from the holy Virgin and the inhumanation, in one subsistence and one person, confessing one Christ, one Son, one Lord. And we do not deny saying that there is one nature of God the Word, yet incarnate and made man, because from both there is one and the same our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who announce two sons, or two subsistences, or two persons, and do not preach one and the same Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, we anathematize and judge to be aliens from the Church; and before all we anathematize the impious Nestorius, and those who think or speak his views; and may such persons fall from the adoption of sons promised to those who believe rightly. C And after these things he added, and wrote in his annotations: O Lord Christ, help us, O God. And again: I have written these things with my own hand for the satisfaction of your power, and so that those calumniating our good and simple conversation in Christ may be put to shame. D