Mary did not bring forth the Godhead as such, but merely a Divine Person, she is truly the Mother of God. The fact that she conceived and gave birth to the body but not to the spiritual soul of her son in no way derogates from her motherhood. “No one will say of Elizabeth,” observes St. Cyril to Nestorius, “that she is the mother of St. John’s flesh, but not of his soul; for she gave birth to the person of the Baptist, i.e., a human being composed of body and soul.”31 Mary not only gave birth to
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