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Cyril of Alexandria: Five Tomes against Nestorius, Scholia on the Incarnation, That Christ Is One

Cyril of Alexandria · translated by Members of the English Church (Library of the Fathers); preface by E. B. Pusey · 1881

Cyril's answer to Nestorius before and after the Council of Ephesus: the Word himself became flesh, so Mary is rightly called Theotokos, and Christ is one. Scanned text, not proofread.

Edition: Library of the Fathers, vol. 47 · archive.org

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From the opening: The first was to remove the offence, which Nestorius had taken at ‘the letter to the…

‘i Persons deserving of all credit have come to Alexan-

dria and have informed me that thy Piety is exceeding

angry, and setting every thing in motion to grieve me. h Ep. ad Celest. ' §. Cyr. Ep. 2. See an abstract of it, ab. p. xxv.

And when I would learn the cause of the grief of thy Piety, they said that some from Alexandria were circulating the letter written to the holy Monks, and that ‘this was the occasion of the hatred and displeasure. I wondered then, that thy Piety did not rather think with Itself, that the disturbance as to the faith did not originate with my letter, but with some, whether written by thy Piety or no, but any how papers or exegeses which were circulated. We then toiled, wishing to restore those misled. For some would hardly admit that Christ is God; but that He was rather an organ or instrument of the Deity and a God-bearing man, and things even beyond this. I had then reason to complain of the things, which thy Piety did or did not write. (For I do not much trust the papers which are carried about.) How then should I be silent, when faith is so injured and so many are perverted? Shall we not be placed before the Judgement-seat of Christ? Shall we not give account for the unseasonable silence, having been appointed by Him to say what is meet? What shallI do now? Forl must consult with thy Piety. And that, when the most religious and God-beloved Bishop of the Roman Church, and the God-beloved Bishops with him, report about the papers brought thither, I know not how, whether by thy Piety or no. For they write, as exceedingly scandalized. And how shall we soothe those who come from the East from all the Churches, and murmur against the papers? Or does thy Piety think, that only a little disturbance has sprung up in the Churches from such homilies? We are all struggling and toiling, bringing back those who are somehow mispersuaded to think otherwise. When then it is thy Piety, who made all of necessity murmur, how does It justly find fault? Why does It cry out against me, and that to no purpose, and does not rather correct Its own speech, to stop this world-wide scandal? For though the speech is past, yet as being diffused among the people, let it be set straight by revision, and do thou vouchsafe to concede

one word to those who are offended, by calling the holy Virgin Theotocos, that soothing those who have been grieved, and having a…

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Contents (62 sections)

  1. Opening
  2. Title page
  3. Preface
  4. Preface (continued)
  5. Preface (continued)
  6. Preface (continued)
  7. Preface (continued)
  8. Preface (continued)
  9. Preface (continued)
  10. Preface (continued)
  11. The first was to remove the offence, which Nestorius had taken at ‘the letter to the…
  12. The second Epistle of 8. Cyril is also Apologetic
  13. Preface (continued)
  14. Preface (continued)
  15. Preface (continued)
  16. Preface (continued)
  17. Preface (continued)
  18. Preface (continued)
  19. Preface (continued)
  20. Preface (continued)
  21. That Christ Is One
  22. Fragments of Treatise
  23. Against the Synousiasts
  24. The Most Holy Archbishop of Alexandria Five-Book Contradiction of the Blasphemies of…
  25. The Most Holy Archbishop of Alexandria Five-Book Contradiction of the Blasphemies of… (continued)
  26. The Most Holy Archbishop of Alexandria Five-Book Contradiction of the Blasphemies of… (continued)
  27. The Most Holy Archbishop of Alexandria Five-Book Contradiction of the Blasphemies of… (continued)
  28. Book II
  29. Book II
  30. Book II
  31. Book II
  32. Book II
  33. Book II
  34. Book II
  35. Book II (continued)
  36. L (continued)
  37. Book VV
  38. On the Incarnation of the Only-Begotten
  39. LXX
  40. LXX (continued)
  41. LXX (continued)
  42. The Same That Christ Is One
  43. The Same That Christ Is One (continued)
  44. LXX
  45. LXX (continued)
  46. LXX (continued)
  47. XV (continued)
  48. From His Treatise against Diodore Bishop of Tarsus
  49. From His Second Book against the Words of Theodore
  50. From the Third Book against Theodore Bishop of Mopsuestia
  51. From His Treatise against the Synousiast's B
  52. Article, the definite, 286 and note h
  53. Article, the definite, 286 and note h (continued)
  54. Index of Greek Words
  55. Index of Greek Words
  56. Index of Greek Words
  57. Index of Greek Words
  58. Index of Greek Words
  59. New and Cheaper Issue
  60. Anterior to the Division of the East and West
  61. S. Ambrose—letters
  62. Gaylord Printed in U.s.a

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Cyril of Alexandria. Cyril of Alexandria: Five Tomes against Nestorius, Scholia on the Incarnation, That Christ Is One. Translated by Members of the English Church (Library of the Fathers); preface by E. B. Pusey. Library of the Fathers, vol. 47, 1881. https://archive.org/details/fivetomesagainst0047cyri
MLA
Cyril of Alexandria. Cyril of Alexandria: Five Tomes against Nestorius, Scholia on the Incarnation, That Christ Is One. Translated by Members of the English Church (Library of the Fathers); preface by E. B. Pusey, Library of the Fathers, vol. 47, 1881. https://archive.org/details/fivetomesagainst0047cyri
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Cyril of Alexandria (1881). Cyril of Alexandria: Five Tomes against Nestorius, Scholia on the Incarnation, That Christ Is One (Members of the English Church (Library of the Fathers); preface by E. B. Pusey, Trans.). Library of the Fathers, vol. 47. https://archive.org/details/fivetomesagainst0047cyri

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