The Anathemas of Cyril in Opposition to Nestorius

Theodoret of Cyrus (393–458)

(Mansi T. IV. p. 1067-1082, Migne Cat. 76, col. 391. The anathemas of Nestorius against Cyril are to be found in Hardouin i. 1297.)

i. If any one refuses to confess that the Emmanuel is in truth God, and therefore that the holy Virgin is Mother of God (qeotokoj), for she gave birth after a fleshly manner to the Word of God made flesh; let him be anathema.

ii. If any one refuses to confess that the Word of God the Father is united in hypostasis to flesh, and is one Christ with His own flesh, the same being at once both God and man, let him be anathema.

iii. If any one in the case of the one Christ divides the hypostases after the union, conjoining them by the conjunction alone which is according to dignity, independence, or prerogative, and not rather by the concurrence which is according to natural union, let him be anathema.

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