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The Three Epistles of S. Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria: English Text is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume contains two letters to Nestorius and one letter to John Bishop of Antioch. Editor P. E. Pusey presents the letters in Greek and Latin with notes and provides the English translations. The former of the two letters to Nestorius was read at the very opening of the Council of Ephesus, immediately after the recitation of the Nicene Creed.

And we refuse to say of Christ, For the sake of Him that wore I reverence that which is worn, for the sake of the Invisible I worship the seen.” It is besides an aweful thing to say, “He that is assumed shares the Name of God with Him That assumed him.c” For he that says thus severs again into two christs, and puts man apart by himself and God likewise: for he denies manifestly the Union, whereby not as one in another is any co-worshipped nor co-named God, but One Christ Jesus is conceived of, the
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