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Cyril, bishop of Alexandria from 412 to 444, is renowned both as one of the most authoritative of all the fathers of the church, and at the same time as one of the most controversial of all church politicians. He oversaw the final extinguishing of pagan religion from Alexandria, and also spent the height of his career as a statesman and an author fighting the doctrines of Nestorius, whose...

through the holy Virgin, Mother-of-God, and whom we and the holy angels worship in accordance with the Scriptures. 19. And suppose they say that all we need [suggest] is that the Only-Begotten paid us a visit and that because he wanted to be visible to those on earth, to live among men,71 and to show us the way of the gospel kingdom, he wrapped himself, for the purposes of the divine plan of salvation, in a flesh like our own (after all, the divine is invisible in its own nature). If they so argue,
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