2. Catholic belief in the Son of God who was made man. Jesus Christ, while dwelling on this earth, manifested in various ways, by word and by deed, the adorable mystery of his person. After being made “obedient unto death” (1) he was divinely exalted in his glorious resurrection, as was fitting for the Son “by whom all things” (2) were made by the Father. Of him St. John solemnly proclaimed: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God… And the Word was made flesh” (3). The Church reverently preserved the mystery of the Son of God, who was made man, and “in the course of the ages and of the centuries” (4) has propounded it for belief in a more explicit way. In the Creed of Constantinople, which is still recited today during Mass, the Church proclaims her faith in “Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God and born of the Father before all the ages… true God from true God… consubstantial with the Father… who for us men and for our salvation… was made man” (5). The Council of Chalcedon laid down to be believed that the Son of God according to his divinity was begotten of the Father before all the ages, and according to his humanity was begotten in time of the Virgin Mary (6). Further, this Council called one and the same Christ the Son of God a ‘person’ (hypostasis), but used the term ‘nature’ to describe his divinity and his humanity, and using these terms it taught that both his natures, divine and human, together belong, without confusion, unalterably, undividedly and inseparately, to the one person of our Redeemer (7). In the same way, the Fourth Lateran Council taught for belief and profession that the Son of God, coeternal with the Father, was made true man and is one person in two natures (8). This is the Catholic belief which the recent Vatican Council II, holding to the constant tradition of the whole Church, clearly expressed in many passages