In this blog post, I take a quick snippet from Patristic Writer and Church Father St. Ambrose silencing the blasphemes of Nestorius. St. Ambrose clearly makes an important distinction between the operations of Humanity and Divinity–yet at the same time not dividing these operations into two subjects as Nestorius did, or making one null in the Incarnation as the Kenosis heretics do. May God be Glorified!
88. Let us call to mind how kindly our Lord has dealt with us, in that He taught us not only faith but manners also. For, having taken His place in the form of man, He was subject to Joseph and Mary. Luke 2:51 Was He less than all mankind, then, because He was subject? THE PART OF DUTIFULNESS IS ONE, THAT OF SOVEREIGNTY IS ANOTHER, BUT DUTIFULNESS DOES NOT EXCLUDE SOVEREIGNTY. Wherein, then, was He subject to the Father’s law? In His body, surely, wherein He was subject to His mother.
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