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St. Cyril of Alexandria is best known for his role in the Christological controversies of the fifth century. In recent decades, scholars have been attending more carefully to his exegetical legacy. Most of Cyril’s work takes the form of biblical commentary rather than doctrinal treatise. Indeed, during his long career he wrote commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible. Less attention,...

Even though we worship him who became a human being because of us and for us, we do not worship him as having come to be in a human being, but as having himself become a human being by nature. For as blessed John says, and as the very nature of the reality bears witness, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”51 Now we say that the Word became flesh, not that he passed over into the nature of flesh. For that would be a change, and alien to the divine dignity. But [what we say is] that he was
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