35. We say, "in a universal formula," because this is a universal expression of the faith, and a universal expression of the faith must be reflected in each and every one of its particulars.

It is a universal tenet of the faith that God is one in person and essence, in whom is the Trinity, and that the Lord is that God.

It is a universal tenet of the faith that no mortal could have been saved if the Lord had not come into the world.

It is a universal tenet of the faith that He came into the world to remove hell from mankind, and that He removed it by battles against it and victories over it. In doing so He conquered it and put it back into order in obedience to Him.

It is a universal tenet of the faith that the Lord came into the world to glorify the humanity that He assumed in the world, that is, to unite it to the Divine from which He originated. By this He keeps hell subject to Him to eternity, in order and in obedience to Him.

Since neither of these ends could have been achieved other than through temptations or trials even to the last of them, and since the last of them was the suffering of the cross, therefore He underwent even this.

These are the universal tenets of the Christian faith regarding the Lord.