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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...

sin,” as Paul [152] says.335 It continually showed us to be deserving of punishment. But the Savior frees the world instead. He did not come “to judge the world, but to save the world.”336 The law too used to give “grace” to humanity by drawing the deceived away from the worship of idols and calling them to a knowledge of God. In addition, it pointed out evil and taught good—not perfectly, but profitably nevertheless, the way a schoolmaster does.337 But the “truth and grace” through the Only Begotten
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