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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...

children have partaken of flesh and blood, so he likewise also shared in the same, so that through death, he might destroy the one who has power over death, that is, the devil, and set free those who, because they feared death, were held in slavery all their lives.”75 He also gave us another explanation: “That which was impossible for the law in that it was weakened through the flesh, God [did], sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on behalf of sin, [and] condemned sin in the
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