The Lantern

The Bazaar of Heracleides · Book 2, part 116

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82. Viz. Athanasius.

83. Viz. Cyril.

84. Viz. God the Word.

85. I . e. as Nestorius.

86. Viz. the man who suffers and obeys.

87. Viz. God the Word.

88. Viz. Christ.

89. The previous quotations from Gregory have been from Gregory of Nazianzum. This one is from Gregory of Nyssa, Labbe (Mansi), iv. 1193 d.

90. In passages such as this Nestorius seems to approach most nearly to teaching Nestorianism as usually understood; indeed it may be argued that such teaching is logically implied in the language he uses. But that it is not his own intention to imply it he shows clearly almost immediately in the paragraph on p. 225 beginning: 'And thou dost concede . . .'

91. A gap, not a new paragraph, is marked here in the Syriac text.

92. Viz. Cyril.

93. Viz. the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

94. Part of the passage read at the Council from the sixth Paschal Epistle of Theophilus of Alexandria, Labbe (Mansi), iv. 1189 a.

95. Viz. Cyril.

96. Viz. Nestorius.

97. Viz. Christ.

98. Literally: 'by parts' or 'in parts'.

99. Viz. God the Word.

100. Inserted by Bedjan in the Syriac text.

101. This sums up Nestorius' dissatisfaction with the Cyrillian conception of the 'impersonal manhood of Christ', and the question at issue is whether he misunderstood that conception, or rightly criticized it as unintelligible. See e.g. Loofs, Nestorius and His Place, p. 73. Consistently with this Nestorius suspects Cyril of treating Christ's manhood as something less than human; cp. p. 260.

102. Viz. ' the man.'

103. This statement of the doctrine of the communicatio idiomatum is surely in accordance with that elaborated in Leo's Tome and accepted as orthodox at Chalcedon. For an estimate of Nestorius' teaching on this point drawn from other sources than this work see T. H. Bindley, Oecumenical Documents of the Faith, p. 113: 'Leo drew out this at length in the Tome. Nestorius would not or could not see the validity of this method of speech, nor allow that the Son could enter the sphere of human life while still remaining within the Divine sphere.'

104. The passage in brackets is restored from the Greek.

105. Viz. Nestorius.

106. I . e. of God the Word.