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Thus have ye heard that Christ is both David's Son, and David's Lord: David's Lord always, David's Son in time: David's Lord, born of the substance of His Father, David's Son, born of the Virgin Mary, conceived by the Holy Ghost. Let us hold fast both. The one of them will be our eternal habitation, the other is our deliverance from our present exile. For unless our Lord Jesus Christ had vouchsafed to become man, man had perished. He was made that which He made, that what He made might not perish. Very Man, Very God; God and man whole Christ. This is the Catholic faith. Whoso denieth that Christ is God is a Photinian; ¹ whoso denieth that Christ is man is a Manichaean. ² Whoso confesseth that Christ is God equal with the Father and very man, that He truly suffered, truly shed His blood (for the Truth would not have set us free, if He had given a false price for us); whoso confesseth both, is a Catholic. He hath the country, he hath the way. He hath the country, "In the beginning was the Word;" ³ He hath the country, "Being in the form of God, He thought it not robbery to be equal with God." ⁴ He hath the way, "The Word was made flesh;" ⁵ He hath the way, "He emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant." ⁶ He is the home whither we are going, He is the way whereby we go. Let us by Him go unto Him, and we shall not go astray.