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Cyril of Alexandria (ca. 378–444), one of the most brilliant representatives of the Alexandrian theological tradition, is best known for championing the term Theotokos (God-bearer) in opposition to Nestorius of Constantinople. Cyril’s great Commentary on John, offered here in the Ancient Christian Text series in two volumes, predates the Nestorian controversy, however, and focuses its theological...

want to consider equality with God something to be exploited? Do we not have to say that someone who is in the form of God is different from the one whose form it is? This much is clear to all, and everyone admits it. Therefore, the Father and the Son are not one and the same in number, but they are distinct, and they are seen in one another because of the identity of substance, even if the Son is clearly from the Father as one from another. Another: “I and the Father are one,”39 says the Savior,
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