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Council of Ephesus, 431

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given to him, who up to this moment and always lives in his successors, and judges [see n. 1824].

The Anathemas of the Chapter of Cyril1 (against Nestorius)2

113. Can. 1. If anyone does not confess that God is truly Emmanuel, and that on this account the Holy Virgin is the Mother of God (for according to the flesh she gave birth to the Word of God become flesh by birth), let him be anathema.

114. Can. 2. If anyone does not confess that the Word of God the Father was united to a body by hypostasis and that one is Christ with his own body, the same one evidently both God and man, let him be anathema.

115. Can. 3. If anyone in the one Christ divides the subsistences after the union, connecting them by a junction only according to worth, that is to say absolute sway or power, and not rather by a joining according to physical union, let him be anathema.

116. Can. 4. If anyone portions out to two persons, that is to say subsistences, the words in the Gospels and the apostolic writings, whether said about Christ by the saints, or by Him concerning Himself, and attributes some as if to a man specially understood beside the Word of God, others as befitting God alone, to the Word of God the Father, let him be anathema.

117. Can. 5. If anyone ventures to say that Christ is a man inspired by God, and not rather that He is truly God, as a son by nature, as the Word was made flesh and has shared similarly with us in blood and flesh, let him be anathema.

118. Can. 6. If anyone ventures to say that God or the Lord is the Word of Christ from God the Father and does not rather confess the same as at once both God and man, since the Word was made flesh according to the Scriptures, let him be anathema.

119. Can. 7. If anyone says that Jesus as man was assisted by the Word of God, and that the glory of the Only-begotten was applied as to another existing beside Him, let him be anathema.

120. Can. 8. If anyone ventures to say that the assumed man must be worshipped and glorified along with God the Word, and bears the same title

  1. Nestorius was condemned by the council of EPHESUS, as it were "in globo" and was deposed on the twenty-second of June, 431 [Msi IV 1211 C]. Those anathematized, who were added to the epistle which St. Cyril and the synod of Alexandria in the year 430 had given to Nestorius, the Council V [of CONSTANTINOPLE II] brought back and highly extolled (this) as part of "the achievements which were effected at Ephesus" [Msi IX 327 C f.]. P. Galtier, Rech. de science rel. 23 (1933) 45 ff., shows that the Council of Ephesus approved the letter of St. Cyril placed as n. 111a, but not this one. The Anathematized of Nestorius against Cyril, see Kch n. 796 ff. ↩

  2. ACOec T. I, vol. I, pars I, p. 4 ff.; ML 48, 840 A ff.; Msi IV 1081 D ff. (gr.) H 312 ff.; Hrd I 1291 E ff.; cf. Hfl II 170 ff.; Bar(Th) to 439 n. 50 ff. (7, 323 ff.).  ↩