3. There were as many as fifty present of the clergy who followed him, and they heard Calvin give these answers to the questions; so I asked them whether they did not see that they had plainly departed from the Athanasian Creed on the question of Christ's person.
They answered that they had read that Creed very often, but had paid [no] attention to these particular words in it, and they were astonished that they were then for the first time looking at those words attentively. They also admitted that there was an open disagreement, and confessed that as often as they had used Christ's name, or had heard Him mentioned, they had not understood 'the Son of God', but a perfect man who was made Righteousness for the human race; and when they had used the word 'God' on its own, they had understood 'God the Father'.
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