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his own. Leo was not the author of these views; he, too, followed a tradition which had come down to him. A generation before Leo a very striking agreement with Nestorius is seen in Pelagius, a native of Britain^[1]. He says about the Logos, quem ubique esse non dubium est: descenderat ad formam servi non localiter, sed dignanter^[2], and even the following sentence is found in him: omnes simul hominem adorent cum verbo assumptum^[3]. It is not wholly improbable that these formulas of Pelagius were influenced by the Antiochian theology, for it is possible that Pelagius visited the East before he came to Rome. But even if Pelagius be left out of consideration (although his utterances may be wholly explained as having their origin in western tradition),—even then a near relationship between the western and the Antiochian tradition can easily be proved. As early as in Tertullian's time, one spoke in the West of two natures of Christ which were not mixed but joined (conjunctae = συνημμέναι^[4]) and Tertullian himself says^[5]: adeo salva est utriusque

1. Comp. Hauck's Real-encyklopädie xxiv, 1913, p. 312, 30 ff.
2. On Eph. 4, 9, Migne, ser. lat. 30, 1846, p. 832 a, comp. Zimmer, Pelagius in Irland, p. 365.
3. On Phil. 2, 10, Migne, p. 846 a, Zimmer, l.c. p. 378. Comp. other striking quotations in my Leitfaden zum Studium der Dogmengeschichte, 4th edition, p. 287 f.
4. Comp. Tertullian adv. Praxeam 27: Videmus duplicem statum, non confusum, sed conjunctum, in una persona, deum et hominem Jesum.
5. adv. Praxeam 1. c.