Skip to content
Needs reviewMost quotes start here until readers rate them or add a source — you can help.

The Reformed Church in adhering to the doctrine as it had been settled in the Council of Chalcedon, maintained that there is such an essential difference between the divine and human natures that the one could not become the other, and that the one was not capable of receiving the attributes of the other. If God became the subject of the limitations of humanity He would cease to be God; and if man received the attributes of God he would cease to be man.

Quote by Charles Hodge

Added by Postmilstill archive ·

Citation look off? Sign in to suggest a source or rate accuracy.

Where this is from

Work title, edition, or primary text used to cite this quote.

No source cited yet

The quote is still here to read. A book, sermon, or primary text has not been attached.

Margin notes

Discussion

Share context, ask questions, or discuss this quote. Comments are separate from source proposals and verification ratings.

All discussions →

    No comments yet.

Loading…

More from Charles Hodge

Other quotes from the same author or related sources.

All quotes by Charles Hodge →
Needs review
Added by Postmilstill archive ·

The gospel is God's message of mercy to mankind. It contains an exhibition of the plan, and the only plan, of salvation. It sets forth the person, the work, and the offices of Christ, and urges all men to whom it comes,…

Charles Hodge · Conference Papers; or, Analyses of Discourses, Doctrinal and Practical, Delivered on Sabbath Afternoons to the Students of the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879), CCVI, "Woe is unto me if I preach not the Gospel" (1 Cor. 9:16), dated April 22, 1866, p. 311
Open quote →