The Nestorian heresy arose from an inability to conceive two natures, the divine and the human, in Christ otherwise than as two separately subsisting beings. Hence Christ is not One Person Who is divine and human, thinks the Nestorian, but He is two beings, God and “a man united to God.” If in our contemplation we so separate the humanity and divinity of Christ that we “pass beyond the humanity,” to “rest in the divinity,” we will tend to divide Christ into “A Man” and “A Divine Person,” whereas in actuality God and man in Him are completely indivisible and inseparable in the Unity of His
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