Theodori presbyteri Rhaethensis Libellus adversus haereses quibus jam olim hypostatica duarum in Christo naturarum unio oppugnata est

that these things were not in reality and truth, but existed only in appearance, and that he beguiled men by deceit, those with whom he was thought to have conversed. For this reason, he also refuses to speak of two natures in the Lord, but acknowledges only one, that of the divinity, as if the human nature were something merely deceptive in his view.

OPINION OF PAUL
OF SAMOSATA.

Paul, who was contemporary with this Manes, being a Samosatene by birth and the bishop of Antioch in Syria, blasphemously said that the Lord was a mere man, and that the indwelling of the Word of God occurred in Him just as it did in each of the prophets. From this, he claimed that two natures exist in Christ, divided and entirely without communion with one another, as if Christ were one being, and the Word of God dwelling in Him were another. These, therefore, are the primary origins of those who wrongly and blasphemously spoke of either one nature or two natures in the Savior Christ, the one to the destruction of His humanity, the other to the destruction of His divinity.