1The eternal Son was born of Mary according to the flesh: one Son, not two, “one nature of God the Word made flesh,” worshiped with his flesh in one worship.
2The one Son suffered, died, and was exalted according to the flesh while remaining unchangeable, immortal, and everywhere according to the Godhead; he will come to judge.
3Anathemas against two sons, heavenly flesh, a changed or suffering Godhead, and refusal to worship Christ's flesh.
disputed · Transmitted as an exposition of faith by Athanasius, sent to the emperor Jovian (363). Lietzmann (1904) showed that it is Apollinaris's own work, composed under Athanasius's name; the attribution to Apollinaris is therefore disputed, and the Athanasian ascription is rejected.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Passed as a letter of Athanasius and was never condemned as a text; the Apollinarian authorship is a modern scholarly finding.
Date
ca. 360–390 (approximate) · If by Apollinaris; Lietzmann dates it to the 370s or earlier.
Written at
Laodicea, Syria (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
letter
Reference system
section (Lietzmann's numbers 1–3)
SBL abbreviation
Ep. Iov.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG (number not yet checked)
Text from
Hans Lietzmann, Apollinaris von Laodicea und seine Schule: Texte und Untersuchungen (Tübingen: Mohr, 1904), 250–253 (Printed edition in the public domain; Greek text from our own Tesseract OCR of the Internet Archive scan)
Critical editions
Hans Lietzmann, ed., Apollinaris von Laodicea und seine Schule (Tübingen: Mohr, 1904) (cited only) (cited, not reproduced)