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The Church Fathers · 449
The Tome
Leo the Great · c. 400–461
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What it is
A letter to the bishop of Constantinople setting out in plain Latin that Christ is one person in whom two natures each act according to their own character.
Why it lasted
Read aloud at Chalcedon to cries that Peter had spoken through Leo, it supplied the definition the council adopted.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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