Calvin draws a careful line between confusion and division, showing that Christ is one person with two distinct natures—fully God and fully man—so that the language of Scripture only makes sense when read through this lens of unity without mixture (John 1:14; Colossians 1:15–17); some passages clearly display his divinity, others his humanity, and others speak in a way that joins both together through what the church has called the communication of properties, where what belongs to one nature can be spoken of the person as a whole (Acts 20:28; 1 Corinthians 2:8); and this is not merely technical theology but the foundation of salvation itself, since Christ’s mediatorial role bridges God and man until the end, when his work is complete and we see God face to face, no longer through the veil of his humbled state but in the fullness of divine glory (1 Corinthians 15:24–28; Philippians 2:8–11).

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