Ephesus (431): source notes
Ephesus (431): source notes
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Topic: christology
CHR S1: Cyril’s first anathema
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3810.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “Cyril Against Nestorius 1 If anyone will not confess that the Emmanuel is very God, and that therefore the Holy Virgin is the Mother of God (Θεοτόκος), inasmuch as in the flesh she bore the Word of God made flesh [as it is written, The Word was made flesh] let him be anathema.”
- Context: Against Nestorius.
- Bears on: X1
- Status: verified (English)
Doctrine F04X
See F04X reasoning.
F04X S1: Cyril, Second Letter to Nestorius
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3810.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “This was the sentiment of the holy Fathers; therefore they ventured to call the Holy Virgin, the Mother of God, not as if the nature of the Word or his divinity had its beginning from the Holy Virgin, but because of her was born that holy body with a rational soul, to which the Word being personally united is said to be born according to the flesh.”
- Context: Read and approved at Ephesus.
- Bears on: F04.2
- Status: verified (English)
Doctrine S15X
See S15X reasoning.
S15X S1: Canon 7
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3810.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “Canon 7 When these things had been read, the holy Synod decreed that it is unlawful for any man to bring forward, or to write, or to compose a different (ἑτέραν) Faith as a rival to that established by the holy Fathers assembled with the Holy Ghost in Nicæa.”
- Context:
- Bears on: S15.2
- Status: verified (English)
Doctrine S21
See S21 reasoning.
S21 S1: Cyril, Third Letter to Nestorius (read at Ephesus, 431)
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3810.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “impassible, yet in his Crucified Body he made his own the sufferings of his own flesh; and by the grace of God he tasted death for all: he gave his own Body thereto, although he was by nature himself the life and the resurrection, in order that, having trodden down death by his unspeakable power, first in his own flesh, he might become the first born from the dead, and the first-fruits of them that slept. …”
- Context: The impassible Word made the sufferings of his flesh his own.
- Bears on: S21.2
- Status: verified (English)