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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...

will you do to prove it? He replied, “Truly, truly, I say to you that Moses did not give you the true bread that comes from heaven; for the bread of God is the one that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”152 Furthermore, he even pointed directly at himself and showed that he was embodied by saying, “I am the living bread who comes down from heaven; anyone who eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread which I give is my flesh, for the life of the world. The one who eats
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