{"slug":"tmp787.tmp787.opp-lat1","id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp787.tmp787.opp-lat1","title":"Contra Haeresim Nestorianam Nestorii Blasphemiarum Capitula XII","title_source":"Contra Haeresim Nestorianam Nestorii Blasphemiarum Capitula XII","author":"Anonymous","genre":"polemic","date":"","tradition":"latin","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},"publication":{"status":"machine-draft","reviewed_by":null,"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","generated":"2026-11-15T07:38:04Z","cost_usd":0.021371},"source":{"registry_id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp787.tmp787.opp-lat1","work_id":"tmp787.tmp787.opp-lat1","edition":"ogl-pl","language":"","license":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/tmp787/tmp787/tmp787.tmp787.opp-lat1.xml"},"stats":{"passages":45,"english_words":9960,"coptic_letters":0,"source_letters":39882,"commentary_units":260,"commentary_kinds":10,"derived_notes":26,"ambiguities":76,"work_notes":5,"external_links":5,"timeline":6},"summary":{"work":"tmp787.tmp787.opp-lat1","abstract":"Contra Haeresim Nestorianam Nestorii Blasphemiarum Capitula XII is an anonymous Latin polemic responding to Nestorius's twelve anathemas (c. 430). Surviving only in Latin, likely translated from a lost Greek original, the work aligns with Cyril of Alexandria against Nestorius in the Christological controversy. It appears in 6th-century Latin florilegia and later Carolingian collections, indicating limited Western use. The text is preserved in the Collectio Avellana (CSEL 35, 1895), the sole modern critical edition, which remains provisional due to unrecorded manuscript variants.","historical_context":"The work was composed in the mid-5th century, likely in a Latin-speaking Christian community in the Western Roman Empire, possibly in North Africa or Italy. It responds to Nestorius's twelve anathemas (c. 430), which were condemned at the Council of Ephesus (431). The text survives only in Latin translation, suggesting a Greek original now lost. It was not cited at Chalcedon (451) but appears in 6th-century Latin florilegia and Carolingian collections, indicating a persistent but limited Western tradition. The sole modern edition is in O. Günther's Collectio Avellana (CSEL 35, 1895), which does not collate all manuscripts, leaving variant readings unrecorded.","significance":"The work is a key witness to the Latin reception of the Nestorian controversy, showing how Western Christians used Cyril's anathemas against Nestorius. It reflects the alignment of the Roman Church with Cyril and the use of Theotokos as a central term. Its survival in Latin florilegia demonstrates the transmission of anti-Nestorian polemic in the West, linking it to later Christological debates.","timeline":[{"date":"c. 430","event":"Nestorius issues twelve anathemas; Cyril of Alexandria responds with his own anathemas."},{"date":"431","event":"Council of Ephesus condemns Nestorius; the Christological controversy intensifies."},{"date":"mid-5th c.","event":"Probable composition of Contra Haeresim Nestorianam, likely in Greek, then translated into Latin."},{"date":"451","event":"Council of Chalcedon; the work is not cited, suggesting limited circulation."},{"date":"6th c.","event":"The work appears in Latin florilegia, indicating Western use."},{"date":"1895","event":"O. Günther publishes the only modern critical edition in Collectio Avellana (CSEL 35)."}],"relations":[{"work":"Nestorius's Twelve Anathemas","relation":"responds to","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Cyril of Alexandria's Anathemas","relation":"aligns with","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Collectio Avellana","relation":"preserved in","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Bobbio Missal","relation":"appears in","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Carolingian florilegia","relation":"transmitted in","key":"","label":null,"url":null}],"external_links":[{"key":"wikipedia:Nestorius","label":"Nestorius","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorius","reason":"The work responds to Nestorius's anathemas."},{"key":"wikipedia:Cyril of Alexandria","label":"Cyril of Alexandria","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_of_Alexandria","reason":"The work aligns with Cyril's Christology."},{"key":"wikipedia:Council of Ephesus","label":"Council of Ephesus","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Ephesus","reason":"Context for the controversy."},{"key":"wikipedia:Collectio Avellana","label":"Collectio Avellana","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectio_Avellana","reason":"The sole modern edition is in this collection."},{"key":"wikipedia:Theotokos","label":"Theotokos","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theotokos","reason":"Central term in the controversy."}],"cautions":["The work's date is uncertain; it is usually placed in the mid-5th century but no external witness securely dates it before the 6th century.","The original Greek text is lost; only a Latin translation survives.","The critical edition (CSEL 35, 1895) is provisional; variant readings in chapter headings and doxology are not recorded.","The ascription to an anonymous author reflects the absence of a named translator or redactor in the manuscript tradition."],"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","cost_usd":0.000471,"generated":"2026-11-15T07:38:04Z"},"links":[{"kind":"source","label":"Open Greek and Latin Patrologia Latina","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/tmp787/tmp787/tmp787.tmp787.opp-lat1.xml"}],"checks":{"work":"tmp787.tmp787.opp-lat1","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":45,"translated":45,"commentary_passages":45,"commentary_units":260,"english_words":9960,"source_letters":39882,"commentary_kinds":10},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The work survives only in Latin, likely a translation from a lost Greek original. 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CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Si quis non confitetur Deum esse secundum veritatem eum qui est Emmanuel, et, propter hoc ipsum, Dei genitricem sanctam Virginem; peperit enim carnaliter Verbum, quod ex Deo est, carnem factum (secundum quod scriptum est: Et Vertum caro factum est (Joan. i, 14); anathema sit.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.\n\nContra hac Nestorius dixit: Si quis eum qui est Emmanuel Deum Verbum esse dixerit, et non potius nobiscum Deum, hoc est, inhabitasse eam quae secundum nos est naturam, per id quod unitus est massae nostrae, quam de Maria virgine suscepit; matrem etiam Dei Verbi, et non potius ejus qui Emmanuel est, sanctam Virginem nuncupaverit, ips(??)mque Deum Verbum dixerit versum esse in carnem, quam accepit ad ostentationem Deitatis suae, ut habitu inveniretur ut homo (Philipp. ii, 7); anathema sit.","english":"THE TWELVE CHAPTERS OF NESTORIUS’ BLASPHEMIES.\n\nTo the letters sent to him by the holy Coelestinus, bishop of the city of Rome, and by Cyril of Alexandria, he objects, and by responding with very brief disputations, he attempts to refute the twelve chapters of faith that had been sent to him.\n\nNow we have set down first the chapters of Bishop Cyril, which the Roman Church approved by true judgment; and then those of Nestorius, both translated from Greek into Latin.\n\nTHE FIRST ANATHEMATISM OF SAINT CYRIL.\n\nCyril said: If anyone does not confess that the one who is Emmanuel is God in truth, and that, for this very reason, the holy Virgin is the Mother of God; for she gave birth in the flesh to the Word, which is from God, made flesh (according to what is written: And the Word was made flesh (John 1:14)); let him be anathema.\n\nTHE ANATHEMATISM OF NESTORIUS.\n\nIn the manuscript codices.\n\nAgainst this Nestorius said: If anyone says that the one who is Emmanuel is the Word of God, and not rather God with us, that is, that he inhabited that nature which is according to us, by reason of his being united to our mass, which he took from the Virgin Mary; and if he calls the holy Virgin the Mother of the Word of God, and not rather the Mother of the one who is Emmanuel, and says that the Word of God himself was turned into the flesh which he took for the manifestation of his divinity, so that by his habit he might be found as a man (Philippians 2:7); let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"NESTORII BLASPHEMIARUM CAPITULA XII","severity":"info","text":"The heading introduces the work as a collection of twelve chapters, but the passage immediately presents only the first anathematism of Cyril and the corresponding one of Nestorius.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Nunc episcepi Cyrilli priora posuimus, quae Romana Ecclesia approbavit vero judicio","severity":"info","text":"The editor states that Cyril's chapters were approved by the Roman Church, reflecting the Latin tradition's alignment with Cyril against Nestorius in the Christological controversy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Et Verbum caro factum est (Joan. i, 14)","severity":"info","text":"Cyril cites John 1:14 (Vulgate numbering; modern editions John 1:14) to support the incarnation of the Word, a key proof-text in the Nestorian controversy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"ut habitu inveniretur ut homo (Philipp. ii, 7)","severity":"info","text":"Nestorius cites Philippians 2:7 (Vulgate numbering; modern editions Philippians 2:7) to argue that the Word appeared in human form only for manifestation, not as a substantial change.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Dei genitricem","severity":"info","text":"The Latin 'Dei genitricem' translates the Greek Theotokos, a central term in the controversy: Cyril affirms it, Nestorius rejects it in favor of 'Mother of the one who is Emmanuel'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"ips(??)mque Deum Verbum","severity":"caution","text":"The text has a lacuna or corruption: 'ips(??)mque' likely represents 'ipsumque', but the manuscript reading is uncertain.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'ips(??)mque' in Nestorius's anathematism is corrupt; the intended reading is probably 'ipsumque'.","The structural note 'In mss. codicibus' is ambiguous: it may indicate a manuscript variant or a heading in the source codex."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"In libris editis.\n\nSi quis eum qui est Emmanuel Deum verum esse dixerit, et non potius nobiscum Deum, hoc est, inhabitasse eam quae seper id quod unitus est nostrae, quam de Maria virgine suscepit; matrem etiam Dei Verbi, et non potius ejus qui Emmanuel est, nuncupaverit; ipsumque Dei Verbum in carnem versum esse, quam accepit ad ostentationem Deitatis suae, ut habitu inveniretur, ut homo; anathema Sit.\n\nCONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nHis pravis dictis catholicus contradicit ita: a Haec dicit iste, tamquam Deus Verbum non habitaverit in nobis, quod a pio sensu satis alienum est. Singulari autem stultitia et impietate plenum est dicere Verbum Patris Emmanuel non esse; sed eum qui natus est ex Maria, qui [Baluz. quia] inhabitavit massae nostrae naturam, quam suscepit ex Virgine: cum omne humanum genus in confessione habeat Emmanuel, sict. non ipsi finximus, sed magistra et interprete Scriptura [Baluz. om. Scriptura didicimus, significare, nobiscum Deis [Baluz. Deum].","english":"In the published books.\n\nIf anyone says that he who is Emmanuel is true God, and not rather God with us—that is, that he inhabited that [nature] which, apart from that which is united to ours, he took from the Virgin Mary; and if he calls her mother of God the Word, and not rather mother of him who is Emmanuel; and if he says that God the Word himself was turned into the flesh which he took for the display of his divinity, so that he might be found in habit as a man—let him be anathema.\n\nCONTRADICTION OF MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nTo these wicked statements the Catholic replies thus: “He says these things as if God the Word did not dwell in us, which is quite foreign to pious understanding. But it is full of singular folly and impiety to say that the Word of the Father is not Emmanuel; but that he who was born of Mary, who [because] he inhabited the nature of our mass, which he took from the Virgin: since every human race holds in confession that Emmanuel, as we have not ourselves invented, but have learned from the mistress and interpreter Scripture, signifies ‘God with us.’","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The passage is divided into two parts: a citation of Nestorius' chapter (introduced by 'In libris editis') and a rebuttal by Marius Mercator (introduced by 'Contradictio Marii Mercatoris').","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Emmanuel","severity":"info","text":"Emmanuel, Hebrew for 'God with us,' is a Christological title drawn from Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew 1:23. Nestorius denies that the Word of the Father is Emmanuel, restricting the term to the man born of Mary.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'God with us' echoes Matthew 1:23, where Emmanuel is interpreted as 'God with us' (nobiscum Deus). The rebuttal cites 'the mistress and interpreter Scripture' as the source of this meaning.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator, a Latin theologian active in the 5th century, wrote against Nestorianism and Pelagianism. His 'Contradictio' here refutes Nestorius' denial that the Word of the Father is Emmanuel, aligning with Cyril of Alexandria's Christology.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The passage shows the Latin reception of the Nestorian controversy, where Marius Mercator defends the Cyrillian position that Mary is Theotokos and that the Word himself is Emmanuel, a view approved by the Roman Church.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text has a textual variant: 'qui' (Baluz. 'quia') in the rebuttal, and 'Deis' (Baluz. 'Deum') in the final phrase. The English draft follows the corrected reading 'Deum'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'inhabitasse eam quae seper id quod unitus est nostrae' is syntactically difficult; the translation interprets it as 'inhabited that [nature] which, apart from that which is united to ours'.","The referent of 'eam' is ambiguous; it is taken as 'naturam' (nature) implied from context."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":3,"ref":"p3","source":"Rursum, quod hoc intelligi debeat, id est, nobiscum Deus, quae mens hominis ambigat? Deum namque nobiscum esse cum optamus et invocamus, quid aliud quam ejus potentiae majestatem adesse cupimus [Baluz. om. adesse cupimus]? Quae quamvis ubique tota sit, et nusquam divisa, tamen auxilio ejus juvari nos petimus et volumus ut nobiscum sit, adjuvans scilicet nos.\n\nIgitur si secundum hunc egregium, immo pravum magistrum, istud Dei Verbo non competit, id est, ut sit quod invocatur nobiscum, cum sua viderit ipse blasphemia. Sed si, ut vult, iterum iste est nobiscum cui Emmanuel vocabulum competit, id est, qui massae nostrae primitias habuit, duo erant sino dubio dii [Baluz. om. dii], secundum prudentissimam, immo vecordissimam et impiissimam definitionem ejus: unus, qui non sit Emmanuel, id est, nobiscum Deus; et alter, qui ab annis quadringentis, et eo quod excurrit, recens quidam et novellus Deus coeperit esse nobiscum.","english":"Again, what man’s mind could doubt that this must be understood, that is, God with us? For when we desire and invoke God to be with us, what else do we wish but that the majesty of his power be present? Although it is wholly everywhere and never divided, yet we ask and desire to be aided by his help, so that he may be with us, namely, helping us.\n\nTherefore, if according to this distinguished—nay, depraved—teacher, that does not belong to the Word of God, that is, that he be what is invoked as with us, let him see to it himself with his blasphemy. But if, as he wishes, this is again the one with us to whom the name Emmanuel belongs, that is, who had the firstfruits of our mass, then there were undoubtedly two gods, according to his most prudent—nay, most senseless and impious—definition: one who is not Emmanuel, that is, God with us; and another who, from four hundred years and more, began to be a certain recent and novel God with us.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"nobiscum Deus","severity":"info","text":"The author argues that 'God with us' (nobiscum Deus) refers to the omnipresent divine power, not a separate being. This counters Nestorius' claim that Emmanuel is merely a human with divine association.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"glossary","lemma":"Emmanuel","severity":"info","text":"Emmanuel (Hebrew: 'God with us') is a Christological title from Isaiah 7:14, used here to denote Christ's divine nature. The author insists it applies to God the Word, not a separate human entity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"nobiscum Deus","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'God with us' echoes Isaiah 7:14 (LXX: μεθ᾽ ἡμῶν ὁ θεός) and Matthew 1:23, where Emmanuel is interpreted as 'God with us.' The author uses this to assert Christ's full divinity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"ab annis quadringentis","severity":"info","text":"The reference to 'four hundred years and more' likely alludes to the time from the prophet Isaiah (c. 8th century BCE) to the Incarnation, mocking Nestorius' view that Christ's divinity began only at the Incarnation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Igitur si ... Sed si","severity":"info","text":"The passage uses a two-part conditional structure ('Therefore if ... But if') to expose the logical absurdity of Nestorius' position, leading to the charge of ditheism.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"dii","severity":"caution","text":"The word 'dii' (gods) is omitted in the Baluz. edition, as noted in the apparatus. This omission may reflect scribal or editorial caution, but the sense of ditheism is clear from the context.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'massae nostrae primitias' (firstfruits of our mass) is ambiguous: it may refer to Christ's human nature as the firstfruits of humanity, or to the Eucharistic offering. The context favors the former, as a contrast to divine nature."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":4,"ref":"p4","source":"Addit quoque ut matrem Del Verbi si quis dixerit sacram Virginem, anathema sit. Verum [Baluz. multum], ut volunt fautores ejus, post admonitionem iste correxit sceleratam primam sententiam suam, qua universo mundo scandalum generavit, negans eam esse; dicunt enim, eum post admonitionem dixisse vel pronuntiasse. Claruit igitur tibi, et tunc quomodo dixerit, et nunc quantum in pejus profecerit.\n\nNon ergo, ut vult, Dei Verbi, sed Emmanuelis est mater Virgo; ergo secundum sapientiesimam disputationem ejus, hunc ideo vult dictum nobiscum, quia massae nostrae unitus est, quam suscepit. Quid faciet, cum dicitur Deus? neque enim Emmanu tantum dictus est, id est, nobiscum; sed etiam het, id est, Deus. Ergo iste Deus [Baluz. om. Deus], quem nos confiteri compellit magister erroneus, cujus auctoritatis erit, cujus potentiae, temporarius et recens? Scriptura clamante: Israel non erit in te Deus recens et novellus (Psal. lxxx, 8).","english":"He also adds that if anyone calls the holy Virgin the mother of God the Word, let him be anathema. But, as his supporters wish, after a warning he corrected his wicked first opinion, by which he generated scandal for the whole world, denying that she is that; for they say that after the warning he spoke or pronounced otherwise. Therefore it became clear to you, both how he spoke then, and how much he has now progressed for the worse.\n\nTherefore, as he wishes, the Virgin is not the mother of God the Word, but of Emmanuel; so according to his most wise disputation, he wishes this one to be called “with us” because he is united to our mass, which he assumed. What will he do when “God” is said? For he is not called only Emmanuel, that is, “with us,” but also *het*, that is, God. Therefore this God—whom the erroneous master compels us to confess—of what authority will he be, of what power, temporal and recent? While Scripture cries out: “There will not be in Israel a God recent and new” (Psalm 80:8).","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"matrem Dei Verbi","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'mother of God the Word' (theotokos in Greek) is the central Christological title Nestorius rejected; the author insists on it for the Virgin.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Psalm 80:8","severity":"info","text":"The citation 'Israel non erit in te Deus recens et novellus' (Ps. 80:8) is used to argue that a merely human Christ would be a 'recent and new' god, contradicting Scripture.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"het","severity":"info","text":"The transliterated Hebrew word 'het' (אֵל) means 'God'; the author uses it to stress that Emmanuel is not merely 'with us' but divine.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Emmanuelis","severity":"info","text":"Emmanuel (Hebrew: 'God with us') is the name from Isaiah 7:14; Nestorius reportedly preferred it to stress Christ's humanity, but the author counters that it still implies divinity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"post admonitionem","severity":"info","text":"The author reports that Nestorius's supporters claim he corrected his initial denial of the Theotokos after a warning; the author dismisses this as a worsening of his error.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Verum [Baluz. multum]","severity":"caution","text":"The source edition notes a variant 'multum' for 'Verum'; the text may be corrupt here, affecting the sense of the supporters' claim.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'Addit quoque' could refer to Nestorius or to a supporter; the author's referent is ambiguous but taken as Nestorius adding a new anathema."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":5,"ref":"p5","source":"Deinde antiquum illum suum, quem nobiscum esse non vult, Deum dicit, an Verbum tantummodo Patris? (forsitan non substantiale, sed, ut Samosatenus olim Paulus, prolativum atque imperativum intelligit). Quis ergo ex hoc non intelligat, quis non advertat ejusdem Pauli eum haeresim evidentissime sapere, qui sub occasione unius praedicandi Dei, id est, monarchaae, Deum Patrem solum definit Deum verum; Verbum autem ejus verbum quod operationibus ex imperio praesit, sicut hominis prolativum Verbum, quod implet opera quae statuerit?\n\nEmmanuelem autem, non natura, sed Dei gratia, dicit Deum, illius Verbi participatione seu societate, et ut expressius dicere solet, conjunctione, vel etiam unitione, et interdum unitate: quam unitatem perraro cum dicit ad decipiendos imperitos auditores, salvo sibi sensu suo, ita intelligit, sicut illud in Evangelio dictum est: Pater sancte, fac ut et isti unum sint in nobis, sicut et nos unum sumus (Joan. xvii, 21). Quae ejus arguta unitas cum sonuerit in auribus populi imperiti, acclamatur, a nosque sycophantae et invidi dicimur: Ecce, inquiunt, unum dixit; quid vultis amplius?","english":"Then he says that ancient God of his, whom he does not wish to be with us, is God, or only the Word of the Father? (perhaps not substantial, but, as Paul of Samosata once held, a proffered and commanding word). Who therefore from this does not understand, who does not perceive that he most clearly savors the heresy of that same Paul, who, under the pretext of preaching one God, that is, monarchy, defines only God the Father as true God; but his Word is a word that presides over operations by command, like a man’s proffered word, which fulfills the works it has determined?\n\nHe calls Emmanuel, however, not God by nature, but by the grace of God, through participation or association with that Word, and, as he is accustomed to say more explicitly, by conjunction, or even by unition, and sometimes by unity: which unity, when he very rarely mentions it to deceive inexperienced hearers, while preserving his own meaning, he understands just as that which is said in the Gospel: Holy Father, make these also one in us, as we are one (John 17:21). When this clever unity of his has sounded in the ears of the inexperienced people, they acclaim, and we are called sycophants and envious: Behold, they say, he said one; what more do you want?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"Paulus Samosatenus","severity":"info","text":"Paul of Samosata, bishop of Antioch in the third century, taught that the Word and Spirit were not distinct persons but impersonal faculties of God the Father, a view condemned at Antioch in 268.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"prolativum atque imperativum","severity":"info","text":"The author accuses Nestorius of reducing the Word to a 'proffered and commanding word' (verbum prolativum et imperativum), a technical phrase drawn from anti-Samosatene polemic to deny the Word's substantial reality.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"John 17:21","severity":"info","text":"The author cites John 17:21 ('Holy Father, make these also one in us, as we are one') to expose Nestorius's merely moral or volitional unity, contrasting it with a hypostatic union.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Deinde ... Emmanuelem autem","severity":"info","text":"The passage moves from a rhetorical question about Nestorius's view of the Word to a direct accusation that he reduces Emmanuel to a grace-given title, not a nature.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"sycophantae et invidi","severity":"info","text":"The author reports that Nestorius's supporters call orthodox opponents 'sycophants and envious' when they reject a merely verbal unity, showing the polemical context of the work.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'Verbum autem ejus verbum' is ambiguous: it may mean 'his Word is a word' (depreciating the Logos) or 'his Word is a word' (as a grammatical entity). The translation follows the depreciating sense."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":6,"ref":"p6","source":"Accedit vanum ejus argumentum, quo putat se excludere catholicam fidem, quae secundum evangelistam Joannem dicit et sentit: Verbum caro factum est (Joan. i, 14); ita ut hinc putet confici, quia si hoc dicatur, versum esse pronuntietur in carnem Deum Verbum, quod et revera fidei rectae valde alienum est. Manens enim Deus Verbum semper in natura et essentia Patris, in una eademque essentia, qua erat et est incommutabiliter, pro nostra salute factus est homo, quod non erat, ut nos singulos, quod non eramus, faceret filios suos. Hoc etiam symboli ratio, Nicaenaeque fidei, hoc veterum tractatorum omnium definitio tenuit, et ad nos usque transmisit.\n\nAddit autem iste, ad ostentationem sui, massam suscepisse Dei Verbum, id est, ut habitu, inquit, inveniretur ut homo, ostentatione Deus: et haec vana et impia Graecus ejus sermo declarat.. Quod est: Si quis dixerit Dei Verbum versum esse in carnem, quam accepit, ad ostentationem Deitatis suoe, ut habitu inveniatur ut homo, anathema sit. habere differentiam, omnes Graeci cognoscunt: namque illum Graeci intelligunt, ubi non veritas, sed potius [Baluz. prestio] quae ad fallendos sensus aliquos assumitur simulatio est, vel figmentum [Baluz. pigmentum]; autem ipsam habitus significat veritatem: quae duo nos ostentationem et habitum dicere possimus; ut ostentatio deceptoria sit, habitus vero naturae omnis ostensio.","english":"He adds his empty argument, by which he thinks to exclude the catholic faith, which according to the evangelist John says and holds: The Word was made flesh (John 1:14); so that from this he thinks it is established that if this is said, it is declared that the Word of God was turned into flesh, which indeed is very foreign to right faith. For the Word of God, always remaining in the nature and essence of the Father, in one and the same essence in which it was and is unchangeably, was made man for our salvation, which it was not, so that it might make each of us, who were not, its sons. This the reasoning of the creed, and the Nicene faith, and the definition of all the ancient writers held, and transmitted down to us.\n\nMoreover, this man adds, for the sake of his own display, that the Word of God took on a mass, that is, as he says, so that it might be found as a man in appearance, as God in display: and this vain and impious Greek speech of his declares. Which is: If anyone says that the Word of God was turned into the flesh which it took, for the display of its divinity, so that it might be found as a man in appearance, let him be anathema. That there is a difference, all Greeks recognize: for they understand that [term] where there is not truth, but rather a pretense or fiction assumed to deceive the senses; but [the other term] itself signifies the truth of appearance: which two we may call display and habit; so that display is deceptive, but habit is the showing forth of all nature.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Verbum caro factum est","severity":"info","text":"The citation of John 1:14 (Vulgate numbering; modern 1:14) is the central proof-text for the Incarnation, here used to counter Nestorius' alleged denial of a real union.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"ostentatio / habitus","severity":"info","text":"The author distinguishes Greek terms: 'ostentatio' (deceptive display) vs. 'habitus' (true appearance). This lexical contrast is crucial to his argument that Nestorius reduces the Incarnation to mere semblance.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"massam","severity":"info","text":"The term 'massam' (Greek ὄγκος) was used by Nestorius to describe Christ's human body as a 'bulk' or 'mass' taken on by the Word, a phrase the author treats as impious and reductive.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Nicaena fides","severity":"info","text":"The author appeals to the Nicene Creed and 'all ancient writers' as a continuous tradition, positioning his own Christology as orthodox against Nestorius' innovation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"This passage follows a pattern: citation of Nestorius' argument, orthodox counter-statement, then a lexical critique of Greek terms used by Nestorius.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Greek terms behind 'ostentatio' and 'habitus' are not given in the Latin; the author's translation may reflect a specific polemical reading.","The phrase 'massam suscepisse' may be a paraphrase of Nestorius' own wording; the exact Greek original is not preserved here."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":7,"ref":"p7","source":"Quid sibi ergo novus et vanus iste vult magister, scire vellemus. Quo se videri fecerit iste novus Deus ejus? Ipsius enim dicendus est, non Christianorum, quo vero schemate inventus esi tamquam homo? Videtisne hunc, seu voluntate nequissima, seu stulta ignorantia, in Manichaei sententiam etiam esse prolapsum, qui Deum non vult verum hominem, sed phantasticum, id est, putativum Christum Dei Filium credere?\n\nANATHEMATISMUS SECUNDUS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Qui non confitetur carni [Baluz. carne] substantialiter unitum [Baluz. unum] esse Verbum Patris; unum quoque esse Christum cum propria carne, et eumdem ipsum sine dubio Deum simul et hominem; anathema sit.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS SECUNDUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.\n\nIn libris editis.\n\nNestorius dixit: Si\n\nSi quis in Verbi Dei quis in Verbi Dei conjunctione quae ad carnem facta est de loco in locum mutationem divinae essentiae dixerit esse factam, ejusque divinae naturae carnem capacem esse, aut partialiter [Baluz. partili- (??)er] unitam carni, aut iterum in infinitum incircumscriptam divinae naturae coextenderit carnem, ad capiendum Deum, eumdemque ipsum natura [Baluz. eamdemque ipsam naturam] et Deum dicat et hominem; anathema sit.","english":"What then does this new and empty teacher want, we would like to know. By what means has this new god of his made himself appear? For he is to be called his god, not that of Christians; by what contrivance has he been found as if a man? Do you see that this man, whether by most wicked will or by foolish ignorance, has even fallen into the opinion of Manichaeus, who does not wish to believe that God is a true man, but a phantasmal, that is, a putative Christ the Son of God?\n\nTHE SECOND ANATHEMATISM OF SAINT CYRIL.\n\nCyril said: If anyone does not confess that the Word of the Father is substantially united to the flesh, and that there is one Christ with his own flesh, and that the same is without doubt both God and man, let him be anathema.\n\nTHE SECOND ANATHEMATISM OF NESTORIUS.\n\nIn manuscript codices.\n\nIn published books.\n\nNestorius said: If\n\nIf anyone has said that in the conjunction of the Word of God which was made to the flesh, a change of the divine essence from place to place has occurred, and that the flesh is capable of his divine nature, or that it is partially united to the flesh, or again that the flesh has been co-extended to the infinite uncircumscribed divine nature for the purpose of containing God, and that the same nature is both God and man; let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"Quid sibi ergo novus et vanus iste vult magister","severity":"info","text":"The author dismisses Nestorius as a 'new and empty teacher', contrasting him with orthodox tradition and implying his teaching is both novel and worthless.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"external","lemma":"Manichaei sententiam","severity":"info","text":"Manichaeism held that Christ's body was illusory, not truly human. The author accuses Nestorius of falling into this heresy by denying the full humanity of Christ.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS SECUNDUS S. CYRILLI","severity":"info","text":"This passage juxtaposes Cyril's second anathema (affirming hypostatic union) with Nestorius's second anathema (denying change or containment of the divine nature), highlighting the doctrinal conflict.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"phantasticum","severity":"info","text":"The Greek-derived term 'phantasticum' (from φανταστικός) means 'imaginary' or 'apparent', used here to accuse Nestorius of reducing Christ's humanity to a mere appearance.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"In mss. codicibus. In libris editis.","severity":"caution","text":"These editorial notes indicate that Nestorius's anathema text varies between manuscripts and printed editions, suggesting textual instability or deliberate alteration.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Si quis in Verbi Dei quis in Verbi Dei conjunctione","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text shows a repeated phrase ('quis in Verbi Dei'), likely a scribal error or dittography, making the exact wording of Nestorius's anathema uncertain.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin text of Nestorius's anathema contains a repetition ('quis in Verbi Dei quis in Verbi Dei'), possibly a scribal error; the intended reading is unclear.","The phrase 'partialiter' (or 'partili(??)er') in the Baluze edition is partially illegible, leaving the precise sense of 'partial union' uncertain."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":8,"ref":"p8","source":"conjunctione quae ad carnem facta est de loco in locum mutationem divina sententia dixerit esse factam, ejusque naturae carnem capacem esse dixerit, ac partialiter unitam carni, aut iterum in infinitum incircumscriptae naturae, cum extenderent carnem, accipiendum Deum, eumdemque ipsum natura et Deum dicat et hominem; anathema sit.\n\nCONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nContradicitur a cathotico: Quasi hoc consequatur, et cogat intelligi ut si quis dixerit substantialiter esse unitum Filium Dei massae nostrae, statim eum illa absurditas premat, quae corporum more demutationem Dei, et protensionem, et inclusionem cogat fateri; sed non ita est, cum nec [Baluz. add. hominis] humana anima hoc in suo corpore patiatur: quanto magis istud de divina natura minime sentiendum est.\n\nDeinde dicit eumdem Christum naturaliter Deum et hominem non esse, sed unum Filium Christum. Quae est ista novitas tam inaudita, quae tantis labyrinthi quodammodo anfractibus obscuretur? Unum dici Filium debere definit, et invito illo, immo suffocato, hac sapidula ejus disputatione, duo procedunt: nam si Christus, quem esse etiam Emmanuel vult, Dei Filius naturaliter non est, sed Verbum Patris secundum naturam est Filius; duo sunt sine dubio Filii [Baluz. om. Filii], unus natura [Baluz.","english":"has said that by the union which was made with the flesh, a change from place to place was made by divine decree, and has said that the flesh is capable of his nature, and that he is partially united to the flesh, or again that God is to be taken as of an infinite, uncircumscribed nature when they extend the flesh, and that he himself by nature both is God and says he is man; let him be anathema.\n\nCONTRADICTION OF MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nIt is contradicted by the Catholic: As if this follows, and compels one to understand that if anyone has said that the Son of God is substantially united to our mass, immediately that absurdity presses him, which compels him to confess a change of God, and extension, and inclusion after the manner of bodies; but it is not so, since the human soul does not suffer this in its own body: how much less is this to be thought concerning the divine nature.\n\nThen he says that the same Christ is not naturally God and man, but one Son Christ. What is this novelty so unheard of, which is obscured by such labyrinthine twists and turns, as it were? He defines that one Son ought to be spoken of, and against his will, indeed stifled, by this clever little argument of his, two proceed: for if Christ, whom he also wishes to be Emmanuel, is not naturally the Son of God, but the Word of the Father is Son by nature; there are without doubt two Sons, one by nature","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"CONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS","severity":"info","text":"This heading marks the start of a Catholic rebuttal attributed to Marius Mercator, a 5th-century Latin polemicist, inserted into the text to counter each of Nestorius' anathemas.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"substantialiter","severity":"info","text":"The adverb 'substantialiter' (substantially) is key: the Catholic response argues that union with the flesh is not material or local, but substantial, akin to the soul-body union, avoiding Nestorius' charge of divine change.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Marius Mercator","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator was a Latin theologian active in Constantinople in the 420s–430s, known for translating and refuting Nestorian writings. His 'Contradictio' here is a contemporary Catholic response to Nestorius' 12 anathemas.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"parallel","kind":"parallel","basis":"text","lemma":"humana anima hoc in suo corpore non patiatur","severity":"info","text":"The analogy of the human soul not being changed, extended, or enclosed by its body parallels standard Christological arguments (e.g., Cyril of Alexandria) that divine nature, like the soul, can be substantially present without local containment.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"duo sunt sine dubio Filii","severity":"info","text":"The charge that Nestorius' logic yields two Sons (the Word and Christ) became a standard anti-Nestorian polemic, echoed in later conciliar condemnations (e.g., Council of Ephesus 431).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"unus natura [Baluz. om. Filii]","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text is corrupt here: Baluze's edition omits 'Filii' after 'unus natura', but the sense requires it. The English draft supplies 'one by nature' but the full phrase likely read 'unus natura Filius'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'unus natura [Baluz. om. Filii]' is textually uncertain; the omission may be a scribal error or editorial choice, but the argument requires 'Filius' to complete the contrast with 'Filius naturaliter'."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":9,"ref":"p9","source":"naturaliter], alter non natura, sed gratia; unus ex aeterno, alter ex tempore: Sed unus, inquit, ideo, quia ab illo qui est natura adscitus est in societatem, seu conjunctionem [Baluz. add. alter ab altero]. Quod totum, quam vanum, quamque impium sit, quicumque catholicus legit advertat.\n\nEtenim secundum rectam et veram fidem, unus est Filius Dei, Deus Verbum cum homine suo, quem, quando voluit, ex anima rationali et corpore vero ac solido assumpsit; nec divisus, nec duplex est, ut hic somniat: sed unus, et ut ita dicam, totus atque idem, Deus et homo, immo, ut signatius dicam, Deus homo, et homo Deus.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS TERTIUS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Si quis in uno Christo dividit substantias post unitionem, sola eas societate connectens, secundum dignitatem, auctoritatem, aut potentiam, et non magis conventu ad unitatem naturalem; anathema sit.","english":"by nature], the other not by nature but by grace; one from eternity, the other from time: “But one,” he says, “for this reason, because he who is by nature was adopted into association or conjunction” [Baluze adds: “the one by the other”]. Let any Catholic who reads this note how vain and how impious the whole thing is.\n\nFor according to the right and true faith, the Son of God is one, God the Word with his man, whom, when he willed, he assumed from a rational soul and a true and solid body; he is neither divided nor twofold, as this man dreams, but one, and, so to speak, whole and the same, God and man—indeed, to speak more precisely, God-man and man-God.\n\nTHE THIRD ANATHEMATISM OF SAINT CYRIL.\n\nCyril said: If anyone divides the substances in the one Christ after the union, connecting them only by association according to dignity, authority, or power, and not rather by a coming together into a natural unity, let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS TERTIUS S. CYRILLI","severity":"info","text":"The passage concludes with Cyril's third anathematism, which the author cites as authoritative against Nestorius. This structural move aligns the polemic with conciliar tradition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"unus ex aeterno, alter ex tempore","severity":"info","text":"The phrase contrasts the eternal Son with the temporal man, a key Nestorian distinction the author rejects. The Latin 'alter' underscores a duality the author condemns.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"Deus homo, et homo Deus","severity":"info","text":"The chiastic formulation 'God-man and man-God' emphasizes the inseparable unity of natures in Christ, countering Nestorius' division. It echoes Cyril's insistence on natural union.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Baluz. add. alter ab altero","severity":"info","text":"The Baluze addition 'the one by the other' clarifies Nestorius' view of adoption. This editorial note reflects the manuscript tradition and the need to specify Nestorius' position.","cites":[],"named_sources":["Baluze"],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Cyrillus dixit","severity":"info","text":"Cyril's third anathematism, cited verbatim, was a key text in the Council of Ephesus (431). Its inclusion here shows the author's reliance on Cyrillian orthodoxy against Nestorianism.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"naturaliter]","severity":"caution","text":"The opening bracket 'naturaliter]' suggests a lacuna or editorial insertion. The text may be incomplete, and the preceding context is lost, affecting interpretation of the contrast with 'gratia'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The opening 'naturaliter]' is fragmentary; the preceding text is missing, leaving unclear what 'by nature' refers to. The reading assumes it contrasts with 'gratia' as part of a Nestorian argument."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":10,"ref":"p10","source":"ANATHEMATISMUS TERTIUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.\n\nNestorius dixit: a Si quis non secundum conjunctionem unum dixerit Christum, qui est etiam Emmanuel, sed secundum naturam; ex utraque etiam substantia, tam Dei Verbi quam etiam assumpti ab eo hominis, unam Filii connexionem, quam etiam nunc inconfuse servant, minime confiteatur; anathema sit.\n\nIn libris editis.\n\nSi quis non secundum conjunctionem unum dixerit Christum, qui est etiam Emmanuel secundum naturam: ex utraque etiam substantia, tam Dei Verbi quam etiam ab eo hominis suscepti in una Filii connexione, quam etiam nunc inconfuse servamus, minime confitetur; anathema sit.\n\nCONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nContradicitur. Sequitur se prorsus, et numquam a propria pessima intentione discedit, qua unum naturaliter Filium introducere molitur; alterum societate conjunctum, qui non naturaliter, sed positive vel Filius, vel Deus esse dicatur, nec tamen veritate sit [Baluz. add. Deus].","english":"ANATHEMATISMUS TERTIUS NESTORII.\n\nIn manuscript codices.\n\nNestorius said: If anyone does not say that Christ, who is also Emmanuel, is one according to conjunction, not according to nature; and does not confess that from each substance, both of God the Word and of the man assumed by him, there is one connection of the Son, which they even now preserve without confusion; let him be anathema.\n\nIn published books.\n\nIf anyone does not say that Christ, who is also Emmanuel, is one according to conjunction, not according to nature; and does not confess that from each substance, both of God the Word and of the man taken up by him, there is one connection of the Son, which we even now preserve without confusion; let him be anathema.\n\nCONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nIt is contradicted. He follows himself entirely, and never departs from his own most wicked intention, by which he strives to introduce one Son naturally; the other joined by association, who is said to be either Son or God not naturally but positively, yet is not so in truth [Baluze adds: God].","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS TERTIUS NESTORII","severity":"info","text":"This passage is the third of Nestorius's twelve anathemas, each structured as a conditional curse against those who reject his Christological formula.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"In mss. codicibus / In libris editis","severity":"info","text":"The source edition presents two textual traditions: one from manuscript codices and another from printed books, with minor variations in wording (e.g., 'assumpti' vs. 'suscepti', 'servant' vs. 'servamus').","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":["ogl-pl"]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"conjunctionem","severity":"info","text":"The Latin 'conjunctionem' (conjunction) renders the Greek συνάφεια, a key Nestorian term denoting a merely external or moral union of natures, as opposed to the hypostatic union.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"unam Filii connexionem","severity":"info","text":"'Unam Filii connexionem' (one connection of the Son) reflects Nestorius's insistence on a unity of connection (συνάφεια) rather than a unity of nature (φύσις).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"CONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator, a Latin opponent of Nestorius, appends a refutation accusing Nestorius of introducing two Sons: one by nature and one by association, a standard anti-Nestorian charge.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Baluz. add. Deus","severity":"caution","text":"The phrase 'Baluz. add. Deus' indicates that the editor Baluze added the word 'Deus' to Mercator's text, possibly to complete a truncated sentence; this editorial intervention should be noted.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":["ogl-pl"]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'conjunctionem' and 'connexionem' are near-synonyms but may reflect different Greek originals (συνάφεια vs. σύνδεσμος); the precise distinction is unclear.","The phrase 'ex utraque etiam substantia' could be read as 'from each substance' or 'from both substances'; the translation opts for the former.","The manuscript and printed versions differ in verb tense ('servant' vs. 'servamus'), but the theological import is identical."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":11,"ref":"p11","source":"ANATHEMATISMUS QUARTUS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Si quis duabus personis aut substantiis discernat [Baluz. decernat] eas voces quae tam evangelicis quam apostolicis litteris continentur, aut etiam eas quae de Christo a sanctis dicuntur, vel ab ipso Christo de se ipso; et aliquas quidem ex his tamquam homini, praeter Dei Verbum, qui quasi specialiter intelligi debeat, applicandas crediderit; aliquas vero tamquam Deo dignas, soli Verbo Dei Patris deputaverit; anathema sit.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS QUARTUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.\n\nNestorius dixit: Si quis eas voces quae tam in evangelicis quam apostolicis litteris de Christo, qui est ex utraque natura [Baluz. om. natura], conscriptae sunt, accipiat tamquam de una natura, ipsi— que Deo Verbo tribuere\n\nIn libris editis.\n\nSi quis eas voces, quae tam in Evangeliis quam in epistolis apostolicis de Christo, qui est ex utraque, scriptae sunt, accipiat tamquam de una natura, ipsique Dei Verbo tentat passiones tribuere, tam secundum carnem quam passiones lentaverit, tam carne quam etiam Deitate; anathema sit.","english":"ANATHEMATISMUS QUARTUS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyril said: If anyone distinguishes by two persons or substances those expressions which are contained in both the evangelical and apostolic writings, or even those which are said about Christ by the saints, or by Christ himself about himself; and believes that some of these are to be applied as to a man, apart from the Word of God, who is to be understood in a special sense; but others as worthy of God, assigns only to the Word of God the Father; let him be anathema.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS QUARTUS NESTORII.\n\nIn manuscript codices.\n\nNestorius said: If anyone receives those expressions which are written about Christ, who is from both natures, in both the evangelical and apostolic writings, as if about one nature, and attempts to attribute to the Word of God himself the passions, both according to the flesh and the passions he has endured, both in flesh and in divinity; let him be anathema.\n\nIn printed books.\n\nIf anyone receives those expressions which are written about Christ, who is from both, in both the Gospels and the apostolic epistles, as if about one nature, and attempts to attribute passions to the Word of God himself, both according to the flesh and the passions he has endured, both in flesh and also in divinity; let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS QUARTUS S. CYRILLI","severity":"info","text":"This passage is the fourth in a series of paired anathemas, contrasting Cyril's formulation with Nestorius's response, a standard polemical structure in the work.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"duabus personis aut substantiis","severity":"info","text":"Cyril's phrase 'two persons or substances' targets the Antiochene tendency to separate Christ's human and divine aspects, a key point of Christological controversy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"In mss. codicibus / In libris editis","severity":"info","text":"The Nestorian anathema is preserved in two recensions: a manuscript version and a printed version, with the printed text adding explicit reference to passions and expanding the phrasing.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Baluz. decernat / Baluz. om. natura","severity":"caution","text":"The source edition notes variant readings from Baluzius: 'decernat' for 'discernat' in Cyril's text, and omission of 'natura' in Nestorius's manuscript version, indicating textual instability.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"ex utraque natura","severity":"info","text":"Nestorius's phrase 'from both natures' reflects his dyophysite Christology, asserting two distinct natures in Christ, which Cyril's miaphysite position rejects as implying two persons.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"parallel","kind":"parallel","basis":"text","lemma":"passiones tribuere","severity":"info","text":"Nestorius's charge that Cyril attributes passions to the Word of God echoes the broader Nestorian critique that Cyrillian Christology leads to theopaschitism, a recurring theme in the controversy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'discernat' vs. 'decernat' in Cyril's text creates ambiguity: 'discernat' means 'distinguish', while 'decernat' means 'decree' or 'determine', affecting the sense of the anathema.","The phrase 'ex utraque' in the printed Nestorian version is ambiguous without 'natura', possibly implying 'from both' natures or substances, but the omission in the manuscript version leaves the referent unclear."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":12,"ref":"p12","source":"etiam Deitatem; anathema sit.\n\nCONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nContradicitur: Consequens esse putat ut coarcietur confiteri divinam naturam esse passibilem, si quis dixerit quia Filius Dei Deus passus esi pro nobis; an nescit quia totus homo communis ex anima et corpore, cum patitur in corporis natura [Baluz. em. in corporis natura], nihil in animae natura ex dolore patiatur?\n\nDeinde, non est is prudentior Patribus in Nicaeno concilio constitutis, qui fidem symboli ab apostolis traditi nobis, propter Arii impietatem, quae tunc emerserat, latius exponentes, ita pronuntiaverunt: Credimus, dicentes post Dei et Patris confessionem, et in unum Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium Dei, Deum rerum de Deo vero, lumen de lumine, consubstantivum Patri, quod Graeci dicunt, natum, non factum, per quem omnia fecit Deus Pater, qui propter nos, et propter nostram salutem ultimis temporibus descendit de c(??)lie, incarnatus est, passus, crucifixus, mortuus, sepultus, resurrexit tertia die, venturus judicare vivos et mortuos, et reliqua.","english":"even the divinity; let him be anathema.\n\nCONTRADICTION OF MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nIt is contradicted: He thinks it follows that one is forced to confess the divine nature to be passible, if one says that the Son of God, God, suffered for us; does he not know that the whole common man, consisting of soul and body, when he suffers in the nature of the body, suffers nothing in the nature of the soul from the pain?\n\nFurthermore, he is not wiser than the Fathers established in the Council of Nicaea, who, expounding more broadly the faith of the symbol handed down to us by the apostles, on account of the impiety of Arius which had then emerged, pronounced thus: We believe, saying after the confession of God and Father, and in one Lord our Jesus Christ, the Son of God, God from God, true God, light from light, consubstantial with the Father, which the Greeks call, begotten, not made, through whom God the Father made all things, who for us and for our salvation in the last times descended from heaven, was incarnate, suffered, was crucified, died, was buried, rose again on the third day, will come to judge the living and the dead, and the rest.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Contradictio Marii Mercatoris","severity":"info","text":"This heading marks a shift from the citation of Cyril's anathematism to a rebuttal attributed to Marius Mercator, structuring the passage as a polemical exchange.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"coarcietur confiteri divinam naturam esse passibilem","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator argues that Cyril's position would logically compel one to admit the divine nature is passible, a charge Cyril would reject as a misreading of communicatio idiomatum.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Nicaeno concilio","severity":"info","text":"The Council of Nicaea (325) condemned Arianism and produced the Nicene Creed, which Mercator here cites as authoritative precedent for speaking of Christ's suffering without dividing his person.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"passus, crucifixus, mortuus, sepultus, resurrexit","severity":"info","text":"This sequence echoes the Nicene Creed's narrative of Christ's passion and resurrection, itself rooted in Gospel accounts (e.g., Matt 27–28; Mark 15–16; Luke 23–24; John 19–20).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Marius Mercator","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator, a 5th-century Latin theologian, was a staunch anti-Nestorian who translated and commented on Cyril's works; his 'Contradictio' here reflects the Western reception of the Cyrillian position.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"de c(??)lie","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text has a lacuna or corruption at 'de c(??)lie'; the English draft reads 'descended from heaven,' which is the expected sense, but the exact reading is uncertain.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'de c(??)lie' is corrupt; the intended reading is likely 'de caelo' (from heaven), but the manuscript evidence is unclear.","The term 'consubstantivum' is a Latin calque of Greek 'homoousios,' but its precise theological weight in this context is assumed rather than argued."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":13,"ref":"p13","source":"Nequaquam [Baluz. Numquid] isti alterum [Baluz. em. alterum] Jesum Christum, qui Emmanuel et passibilis esset; alterum vero Patris Verbum impassibile [Baluz. impassibilem] intellexerunt: sed unum eumdemque Deum aeternum, cum assumpto ultimis temporibus corpore suo, impassibilem Deitate, passibilem corpore; in quo pro nobis, et cum quo, tamquam proprio, nasceretur, videretur, pateretur, et resurgeret tertia die, iterum eum ipso venturus de coetis judicare vivos et mortuos.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS QUINTOS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Si quis ausit dicere, id est, hominem Deo utentem, seu portantem, Christum, et non potius Deum esse secundum veritatem, tamquam unicum Filium, qui naturaliter, secundam quod Verbum caro factum est, participaverit nobis similiter carne et sanguine; anathema sit.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS QUINTUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.","english":"By no means did they understand one Jesus Christ, who would be Emmanuel and passible, and another, the impassible Word of the Father; but one and the same eternal God, with his own body assumed in the last times, impassible in his divinity, passible in his body; in which, and with which, as his own, he was born, was seen, suffered, and rose again on the third day, and will come again from the heavens to judge the living and the dead.\n\nTHE FIFTH ANATHEMATISM OF SAINT CYRIL.\n\nCyril said: If anyone dares to say that Christ is a man using or bearing God, and not rather that he is God in truth, as the only Son, who, according to the Word having become flesh, has made us partakers similarly of flesh and blood, let him be anathema.\n\nTHE FIFTH ANATHEMATISM OF NESTORIUS.\n\nIn the manuscript codices.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS QUINTOS S. CYRILLI","severity":"info","text":"This passage presents the fifth anathematism of Cyril of Alexandria, a key document in the Nestorian controversy, followed by a heading for Nestorius's fifth anathematism, which is not quoted.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Emmanuel","severity":"info","text":"Emmanuel (Hebrew: 'God with us') is a Christological title from Isaiah 7:14, used here to denote the incarnate, passible Christ, as distinct from the impassible Word.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Nequaquam ... intellexerunt","severity":"info","text":"The opening sentence refutes a Nestorian interpretation that posits two separate subjects in Christ: one passible (Emmanuel) and one impassible (the Word). This reflects the core Antiochene versus Alexandrian Christological debate.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"venturus de coetis judicare vivos et mortuos","severity":"info","text":"Echoes Acts 10:42 and the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, affirming the eschatological return of the same Christ who suffered and rose.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"In mss. codicibus","severity":"info","text":"The note 'In the manuscript codices' indicates that the text of Nestorius's fifth anathematism is missing in the source manuscript, a common feature in this tradition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Nequaquam [Baluz. Numquid]","severity":"caution","text":"The source edition notes a variant reading: Baluze suggests 'Numquid' (surely not) instead of 'Nequaquam' (by no means), which would change the rhetorical force from a denial to a rhetorical question.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin text of Nestorius's fifth anathematism is not provided, only a heading; its content must be inferred from other sources.","The variant 'Numquid' for 'Nequaquam' introduces ambiguity about the intended rhetorical stance."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":14,"ref":"p14","source":"Nestorius dixit: Si quis post assumptionem hominis naturaliter a Dei Filium\n\nIn libris editis.\n\nSi quis unum esse post assumptionem hominis naturaliter Dei Filium audet unum esse audet dicere, cum sit Emmanuel; anathema sit.\n\ndicere, cum sit Emmanuel; anathema sit.\n\nCONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nCatholicus contradicit: Ergo duo sunt, stultissime et impiissime, secundum te, Filii [Baluz. em. Filii]: unus, qui sit naturaliter; et alius, qui positione; et quomodo hoc non impium est?\n\nANATHEMATISMUS SEXTUS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Si quis dicit Deum vel Dominum esse Christi Verbum Patris, et non magis eumdem ipsum confitetur Deum et hominem simul, tamquam Verbo carne facto, secundum Scripturas; anathema sit.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS SEXTUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.\n\nNestorius dixit: Si quis post incarnationem Deum Verbum alterum quempiam praeter Christum nominaverit, servique formam cum Deo Verbo initium non habere, et hanc increatam, ut ipse est, esse dicere tentaverit, et non potius ab ipso creatam confiteatur, tamquam a naturali Domino, et creatore, et Deo, quam et suscitare propria virtute promisit: Solvite, dicens ad Judaeos, templum hoc, et in triduo suscitabo illud (Joan. ii, 19); anathema sit.","english":"Nestorius said: If anyone, after the assumption of the man, dares to say that the Son of God is naturally one, since he is Emmanuel, let him be anathema.\n\nIn the published books.\n\nIf anyone, after the assumption of the man, dares to say that the Son of God is naturally one, since he is Emmanuel, let him be anathema.\n\nCONTRADICTION OF MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nThe Catholic contradicts: Therefore, according to you, most foolish and impious one, there are two Sons: one who is naturally, and another who is by position; and how is this not impious?\n\nTHE SIXTH ANATHEMATISM OF SAINT CYRIL.\n\nCyril said: If anyone says that the Word of God the Father is the God or Lord of Christ, and does not rather confess the same himself to be both God and man together, as the Word made flesh, according to the Scriptures, let him be anathema.\n\nTHE SIXTH ANATHEMATISM OF NESTORIUS.\n\nIn the manuscript codices.\n\nNestorius said: If anyone, after the incarnation, has named the Word of God as someone other than Christ, and has attempted to say that the form of a servant has no beginning with the Word of God, and that this is uncreated, as he himself is, and does not rather confess it to be created by him, as by a natural Lord, and creator, and God, which he also promised to raise by his own power, saying to the Jews, \"Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up\" (John 2:19), let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"This passage presents a layered polemical structure: Nestorius's anathema, a contradiction by Marius Mercator, Cyril's sixth anathematism, and Nestorius's counter-anathematism. The repetition of Nestorius's statement in two versions (from published books and manuscript codices) highlights textual variation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"glossary","lemma":"naturaliter","severity":"info","text":"The adverb 'naturaliter' (naturally) is central to the Christological dispute: Nestorius denies that the Son of God is 'naturally one' after the assumption of the man, implying a distinction between the divine nature and the human nature, which his opponents reject as implying two Sons.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Solvite, dicens ad Judaeos, templum hoc, et in triduo suscitabo illud","severity":"info","text":"Nestorius cites John 2:19, where Jesus says to the Jews, 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.' This is used to argue that the form of a servant (the human body) is created and can be raised by the divine Word, not uncreated.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator was a 5th-century Latin writer and translator who compiled anti-Nestorian materials. His 'Contradictio' here is a rhetorical rebuttal, accusing Nestorius of positing two Sons: one natural and one by position (positione).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"Cyril's sixth anathematism, as cited here, condemns anyone who distinguishes the Word of God from Christ as God or Lord, insisting on the unity of God and man in the Word made flesh. This was a key point in the Nestorian controversy and was later affirmed at the Council of Ephesus (431).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"The passage includes two versions of Nestorius's anathema: one from 'In libris editis' (published books) and another from 'In mss. codicibus' (manuscript codices). The latter is longer and includes the citation of John 2:19, suggesting textual fluidity in the transmission of Nestorius's works.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'naturaliter Dei Filium' in Nestorius's anathema is ambiguous: it could mean 'the Son of God is naturally one' or 'the Son of God is one by nature.' The translation opts for the former, but the latter is also possible and would shift the emphasis to the nature of the Son.","The source of the 'In libris editis' and 'In mss. codicibus' versions is not specified; they may represent different recensions or editorial traditions."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":15,"ref":"p15","source":"In libris editis\n\nSi quis post incarnationem Deum Verbum alterum quempiam praeter Christum nominaverit; servi sane formam initium non habere cum Deo Verbo, et increatam, ut ipse est, dicere tentaverit, et non magis ab ipso creatam confiteatur, quam natura Dominum, et Creatorem, et Deum, quam et suscitere propria virtute promisit: Solvite, dicens, templum hoc, et in triduo suscitabo illud; anathema sit.\n\nCONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nCatholicus contradicit. Stultorum struthionum videtur hic sermod, qui collo tenus absconditos se putant, el reliquum periculis corpus exponunt. Unum dicit esse Christum, et suas superiores sententias impiissimas non videt, cito oblitus Emmanuelis sui.\n\nDenique a quo umquam audivit, corpus Domini consempiternum el esse? (quamvis ex quo id dignatus est assumere, est perpetuum) tamquam quod est ejus, coaeternum quoque sit ei. Utinam hic [Baluz. sic] saperet unum Filium Dei Deum Verbum secundum symbolum fidei, una cum assumpto perfecte homine, ex anima rationali et corpore, qui, ut scriptum est: AEgritudines nostras ipse portavit, et pro nobit dolet [Isai. liii, 4), eas videlicet suspendens in corpore suo super lignum (I Petr. ii. 24); et non ad hanc vanam impietatem Pauli Samosateni descenderet, duarum naturarum et personarum merita dividendo!","english":"In the published books\n\nIf anyone, after the incarnation, has named the Word of God as someone other than Christ; if he has attempted to say that the form of a servant has no beginning with the Word of God, and is uncreated, as he himself is, and does not confess that it was rather created by him, who is by nature Lord, Creator, and God, than that he promised to raise it up by his own power, saying: \"Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up\"; let him be anathema.\n\nCONTRADICTION OF MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nThe Catholic contradicts. This speech seems to be that of foolish ostriches, who think themselves hidden up to the neck, and expose the rest of their body to dangers. He says that Christ is one, and does not see his own most impious earlier statements, quickly forgetting his Emmanuel.\n\nFinally, from whom did he ever hear that the Lord's body is co-eternal with him? (although from the moment he deigned to assume it, it is perpetual) as if what is his is also co-eternal with him. Would that he here understood one Son of God, the Word of God according to the symbol of faith, together with the perfectly assumed man, consisting of a rational soul and body, who, as it is written: \"He himself bore our infirmities, and suffered for us\" (Isaiah 53:4), namely suspending them in his body upon the wood (1 Peter 2:24); and that he did not descend to this vain impiety of Paul of Samosata, dividing the merits of two natures and persons!","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"In libris editis","severity":"info","text":"This rubric introduces a second anathema attributed to Nestorius, continuing the pattern of citation followed by Marius Mercator's contradiction.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Solvite, dicens, templum hoc, et in triduo suscitabo illud","severity":"info","text":"The phrase echoes Jesus' challenge in the temple (cf. John 2:19), but is here misapplied to the body of Christ as a created temple.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Aegritudines nostras ipse portavit, et pro nobis dolet","severity":"info","text":"A loose citation of Isaiah 53:4, which in the Vulgate reads 'ego vero aegrotavi' but is adapted to emphasize Christ's suffering for humanity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"eas videlicet suspendens in corpore suo super lignum","severity":"info","text":"Alludes to 1 Peter 2:24, where Christ's body on the cross is the means of suspending human sins.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Pauli Samosateni","severity":"info","text":"Paul of Samosata, third-century bishop of Antioch, was condemned for adoptionist Christology, denying the pre-existence of the Word as a distinct divine person.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"consempiternum","severity":"info","text":"A rare Latin compound meaning 'co-eternal', used here to reject the notion that Christ's body, though perpetual after assumption, is eternal like the divine nature.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin text of the anathema is corrupt in the source edition; the phrase 'servi sane formam initium non habere' is grammatically awkward and may reflect a misreading of the Greek original."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":16,"ref":"p16","source":"ANATHEMATISMUS SEPTIMUS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyrilli dixit: Si quis dicit in Jesu tamquam in homine Deum Verbum fuisse inoperatum, et Unigeniti dignitatem tamquam alteri praeter ipsum existenti tribuendam esse, anathema sit.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS SEPTIMUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. Codicibus.\n\nNestorius dixit: Si quis hominem qui de Virgine creatus est, hunc esse dixerit Unigenitum, qui ex utero Patris ante luciferum natus est (Ps. cix, 4); et non magis propter unitionem ad eum qui est Unigenitus naturaliter Patris, a Unigeniti eum appellationis confiteatur participem factum; Jesum quoque alterum quempiam, praeter Emmanuel, dicat; anathema sit.\n\nIn libris editis.\n\nSi quis hominem qui in Virgine creatus ea, hunc esse Unigenitum dixerit, qui ex utero Patris ante luciferum natus est; et non magis propter unionem eum qui est naturaliter Unigenitus, Patris Unigeniti appellatione confitetur participem factum; Jesum quoque alterum quempiam praeter Emmanuel dicat; anathema sit.","english":"THE SEVENTH ANATHEMATISM OF ST. CYRIL.\n\nCyril said: If anyone says that in Jesus, as in a man, God the Word was inoperative, and that the dignity of the Only-Begotten is to be attributed to someone other than him existing separately, let him be anathema.\n\nTHE SEVENTH ANATHEMATISM OF NESTORIUS.\n\nIn the manuscript codices.\n\nNestorius said: If anyone says that the man who was created from the Virgin is the Only-Begotten, who was born from the womb of the Father before the morning star (Ps. 109:4), and does not rather confess that, on account of the union with him who is naturally the Only-Begotten of the Father, he has been made a participant in the appellation of the Only-Begotten; and if he says that Jesus is someone else besides Emmanuel, let him be anathema.\n\nIn the published books.\n\nIf anyone says that the man who was created in the Virgin is the Only-Begotten, who was born from the womb of the Father before the morning star; and does not rather confess that, on account of the union, he who is naturally the Only-Begotten has been made a participant in the appellation of the Only-Begotten of the Father; and if he says that Jesus is someone else besides Emmanuel, let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS SEPTIMUS S. CYRILLI","severity":"info","text":"This passage presents the seventh anathematism of Cyril followed by two versions of Nestorius's counter-anathematism, one from manuscript codices and one from published books.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"glossary","lemma":"inoperatum","severity":"info","text":"The Latin 'inoperatum' translates the Greek 'ἀνενέργητον', meaning 'inoperative' or 'not active'. Cyril condemns the view that the Word was passive in Jesus.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ps. cix, 4","severity":"info","text":"The citation 'Ps. cix, 4' refers to Psalm 109:4 in the Vulgate (Psalm 110:3 in modern numbering), which speaks of the king-priest Melchizedek, here applied typologically to Christ's pre-existence.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"In mss. Codicibus","severity":"info","text":"The rubric 'In mss. Codicibus' indicates that the first version of Nestorius's anathematism is preserved in manuscript codices, while the second version comes from published books, suggesting textual variation in transmission.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"background","lemma":"Nestorius dixit","severity":"info","text":"Nestorius's anathematism rejects the identification of the man born of Mary with the pre-existent Only-Begotten, insisting instead on a 'union' (unitionem) that makes the man a participant in the title, reflecting the Antiochene emphasis on Christ's two natures.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"In libris editis","severity":"caution","text":"The published version of Nestorius's anathematism differs from the manuscript version in phrasing: it omits 'qui de Virgine creatus est' and changes the syntax of the union clause, possibly due to scribal correction or doctrinal revision.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'creatus' in Nestorius's anathematism could mean 'created' or 'born'; the English draft opts for 'created' but 'born' is also possible. The phrase 'ante luciferum' (before the morning star) is ambiguous: it may refer to Christ's pre-existence or to a time before dawn."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":17,"ref":"p17","source":"CONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nCatholicus contradicit. Eadem et per eadem volvens [Baluz. volens], in eodem luto versuram solvit; prodit enim iterum de tortuosis cavernis sibilans patris sui, more serpentis. Producit namque Unigenitum, quem natura Filium Dei vult intelligi; quem tamen nobiscum Deum esse non censet, quia ei nomen Emmanuelis naturale non tribuit, sed significativam solius vocabuli appellationem: sicut et temporali Emmanueli suo Unigeniti nomen minime naturale largitur; sed propter copulationem, seu conjunctionem illius naturalis Unigeniti inanem nuncupationem reliquit.\n\nAMATHEMATISMUS OCTAVUS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Si quis audet dicere assumptum hominem coadorari cum Deo Verbo oportere, et connuncupari Deum tamquam alterum cum altero (adjectio enim hujus syllabae, cum, hoc coget intelligi); et non magis una reverentia veneratur Emmanuelem, unamque glorificationem dependit, secundum quod Verbum care factum est [Joan. i, 14), anathema sit.","english":"CONTRADICTION BY MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nThe Catholic contradicts. Turning over the same and through the same things, he pays off his loan in the same mire; for he comes forth again, hissing from his twisted caverns in the manner of his father, the serpent. For he brings forward the Only-Begotten, whom he wishes to be understood as the Son of God by nature; yet he does not deem him to be God with us, because he does not attribute to him the name Emmanuel as natural, but only a significative appellation of the word: just as he does not bestow the name of the Only-Begotten as natural upon his temporal Emmanuel; but on account of the coupling or conjunction of that natural Only-Begotten, he has left an empty designation.\n\nTHE EIGHTH ANATHEMATISM OF ST. CYRIL.\n\nCyril said: If anyone dares to say that the assumed man ought to be co-adored with God the Word, and to be co-named God as one with another (for the addition of this syllable, co-, will compel this to be understood); and does not rather venerate Emmanuel with one reverence and pay one glorification, according to which the Word became flesh (John 1:14), let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Contradictio Marii Mercatoris","severity":"info","text":"This heading introduces a refutation by Marius Mercator, a Latin writer, against Nestorius's eighth anathematism, mirroring the pattern of previous passages.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Emmanuel","severity":"info","text":"Emmanuel (Hebrew: 'God with us') is a Christological title central to the debate; Nestorius is accused of denying its natural application to Christ, treating it as a mere appellation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Joan. i, 14","severity":"info","text":"The citation 'Joan. i, 14' refers to John 1:14, which in the Vulgate reads 'Et Verbum caro factum est' (And the Word became flesh), supporting Cyril's emphasis on the unity of Christ.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Marius Mercator","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator was a 5th-century Latin theologian and translator who compiled anti-Nestorian materials; his 'Contradictio' here refutes Nestorius's eighth anathematism.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"coadorari","severity":"info","text":"The term 'coadorari' (co-adored) reflects Cyril's concern that Nestorius's Christology implies two objects of worship, a key point in the Nestorian controversy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"volvens [Baluz. volens]","severity":"caution","text":"The source edition notes a textual variant: 'volvens' (turning over) is preferred over Baluzius's 'volens' (willing), affecting the sense of the serpentine imagery.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'versuram solvit' is ambiguous: it may mean 'pays off his loan' (as translated) or 'solves his turning', but the financial metaphor fits the context of debt and repayment."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."},{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","ref":"John 1:14","text":"The English carries the scriptural phrase “the word became flesh”, which matches John 1:14. The match is on the English draft; check the Coptic before quoting the verse."}]},{"i":18,"ref":"p18","source":"ANATHEMATISMUS OCTAVIS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.\n\nNestorius dixit: Si quis servi formam per se ipsam, hoc est, secundum propriae naturae rationem, colendam esse dixerit, et omnium rerum dominam esse, et non potius propter [Baluz. per] societatem, qua beatae et ex se naturaliter dominae [Baluz. Dominicae] Unigeniti naturae conjuncta et connexa est, veneratur; anathema sit.\n\nIn libris editis.\n\nSi quis servi formam pro se ipsa, hoc est, secundum propriae naturae rationem, colendam dixerit, et non omnium dominam, et non potius per societatem, qua beatae, et ex se naturaliter Domini Unigeniti naturae conjuncta est, veneratur; anathema sit.\n\nCONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nContradicit catholicus. Nullus umquam Christianorum separavit et divisit, per distantiam seu differentiam meritorum, unum et eumdem Deum Dei Filium, Jesum Christum, ut eum sibi ipsi in diversa dignitate duplicem, ac sic [Baluz. si] disparem demonstraret.","english":"EIGHTH ANATHEMATISM OF NESTORIUS.\n\nIn manuscript codices.\n\nNestorius said: If anyone has said that the form of a servant is to be worshipped on its own account, that is, according to the principle of its own nature, and that it is the mistress of all things, and not rather on account of the union by which it is joined and connected to the blessed and by nature naturally lordly nature of the Only-begotten, let him be anathema.\n\nIn published books.\n\nIf anyone has said that the form of a servant is to be worshipped for its own sake, that is, according to the principle of its own nature, and that it is not the mistress of all, and not rather on account of the union by which it is joined to the blessed and by nature naturally the Lord’s nature of the Only-begotten, let him be anathema.\n\nCONTRADICTION BY MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nThe Catholic contradicts. No Christian has ever separated and divided, by a distance or difference of merits, the one and the same God the Son of God, Jesus Christ, so as to show him as double in himself in diverse dignity, and thus unequal.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"servi formam","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'servi formam' (form of a servant) refers to the human nature of Christ, which Nestorius argues is not to be worshipped in itself but only due to its union with the divine nature.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"anathema sit","severity":"info","text":"The formula 'anathema sit' (let him be anathema) is a standard conciliar condemnation, placing the opponent outside the Church. Nestorius uses it to reject those who worship Christ's humanity independently of his divinity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Contradictio Marii Mercatoris","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator's contradiction follows the pattern of the work, refuting each Nestorian anathematism by asserting Catholic orthodoxy. Here he denies any separation of Christ into two distinct persons or dignities.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"In mss. codicibus / In libris editis","severity":"info","text":"The passage is transmitted in two forms: manuscript codices and published books, with minor textual variants (e.g., 'per societatem' vs. 'propter societatem', 'dominae' vs. 'Dominicae'). These reflect scribal or editorial differences.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Marius Mercator","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator, a 5th-century Latin writer, compiled anti-Nestorian materials. His contradictions here serve as a contemporary Catholic response, emphasizing the unity of Christ's person against Nestorian duality.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'per societatem' vs. 'propter societatem' may indicate a difference in emphasis (instrumental vs. causal), but the sense remains that worship is due through or because of the union.","The phrase 'ex se naturaliter dominae' (or 'Dominicae') is ambiguous: it could mean 'naturally lordly' or 'of the Lord', but both point to the divine nature of the Only-begotten."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":19,"ref":"p19","source":"ANATHEMATISMUS NONUS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Si quis eum qui unus est Dominus Jesus Christus, glorificatum esse a Spiritu sancto, tamquam aliena potentia, qua per eum uteretur, ab eoque meruisse operari posse adversus immundos spiritus, et per ipsum implesse divina signa, et non magis proprium ejus esse Spiritum sanctum dicat, sicut et Patris, per quem signa operatus est; anathema sit.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS NONUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.\n\nNestorius dixit: Si quis formam [Baluz. formae] servi consubstantialem esse dixerit Spiritui sancto [Baluz. Spiritum sanctum], et non potius per illius mediationem eam quae est ad Deum Verbum ab ipsa conceptione habuisse dixerit copulationem, seu conjunctionem, per quam in hominibus\n\nIn libris editis.\n\nSi quis formam servi consubstantialem esse dixerit Spiritui sancto, et non potius per illius mediationem quae est ad Deum Verbum, et ex ipsa conceptione habuisse dixerit conjunctionem, per quas communes nonnumquam in homines miranda curatione exercuit, et ex hoc curandorum spiricommunes simul nonnumquam et mirandas [Baluz. miserandas] curationes exercuit, et ex qua fugandorum spirituum eveniebat esse potestatem; anathema sit.","english":"NINTH ANATHEMATISM OF SAINT CYRIL.\n\nCyril said: If anyone says that the one Lord Jesus Christ was glorified by the Holy Spirit as by an alien power, which He used through Him, and that He merited from Him the ability to work against unclean spirits, and that through Him He accomplished divine signs, and does not rather say that the Holy Spirit is His own, as also of the Father, through whom He worked the signs; let him be anathema.\n\nNINTH ANATHEMATISM OF NESTORIUS.\n\nIn manuscript codices.\n\nNestorius said: If anyone has said that the form of a servant is consubstantial with the Holy Spirit, and not rather that through the mediation of that form it had from the conception itself a coupling or conjunction with God the Word, through which among men\n\nIn printed books.\n\nIf anyone has said that the form of a servant is consubstantial with the Holy Spirit, and not rather that through the mediation of that form which is towards God the Word, and from the conception itself it had a conjunction, through which it sometimes exercised common and wondrous healings among men, and from this there came to be the power of driving away spirits; let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS NONUS S. CYRILLI","severity":"info","text":"The passage presents the ninth anathematism of Cyril followed by the ninth of Nestorius, mirroring the pattern of the previous passage.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"formam servi","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'formam servi' (form of a servant) refers to Christ's human nature, a key term in Nestorian controversy distinguishing the human from the divine.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"consubstantialem","severity":"info","text":"'Consubstantialem' (consubstantial) is a technical term from the Nicene Creed, here applied to the relation between Christ's human nature and the Holy Spirit, which Nestorius denies.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"In mss. codicibus","severity":"info","text":"The note 'In mss. codicibus' (In manuscript codices) indicates a variant textual tradition, with the printed version offering a longer, possibly revised form of Nestorius's anathematism.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Baluz.","severity":"caution","text":"The parenthetical 'Baluz.' refers to the editor Baluze, whose emendations (e.g., 'formae' for 'formam', 'Spiritum sanctum' for 'Spiritui sancto') indicate textual uncertainty in the manuscript tradition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"curandorum spiricommunes","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'curandorum spiricommunes' in the printed version is likely a corruption; the draft reads 'common and wondrous healings,' reflecting the difficulty of the Latin text.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin text of Nestorius's anathematism differs between manuscript and printed versions, with Baluze's emendations suggesting possible scribal errors or deliberate alterations. The phrase 'curandorum spiricommunes' is obscure and may be a corruption."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":20,"ref":"p20","source":"tuum eveniebat esse potestatem; anathema sit.\n\nCONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nCatholicus contradicit. Quam mediationem inter Deum Verbum et Spiritum sanctum affert inauditam saeculis omnibus, et omnibus hominibus, scire non possumus; cum unam esse mediationem Scripturae divinae testentur, his Pauli apostoli dictis: Unus enim mediator Dei et hominum homo Jesus Christus (1 Tim. ii, 5). Et iterum: Ipse enim, qui fecit utraque unum, et medium parietem maceriae solvens, inimicitias in carne Sua, legem mandatorum in decretis evacuans, ut duos condat in semetipso in uno novo homine, faciens pacem (Ephes. ii, 14). Et caetera, quae inserere longum est. Quid ergo sibi vult ista novitas inaudita, nisi vult etiam a Spiritus sancti substantia Christum separare; nec eum ex se potuisse signa et virtutes, sine hujus ea mediatione, vel etiam auxilio, operari?","english":"work through you was its power; let him be anathema.\n\nCONTRADICTION OF MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nThe Catholic contradicts. What mediation between God the Word and the Holy Spirit he brings forth, unheard of in all ages and by all men, we cannot know, since the divine Scriptures testify that there is one mediation, by these words of the apostle Paul: For there is one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ (1 Tim. 2:5). And again: For He Himself, who made both one, and dissolving the middle wall of the fence, the enmities in His own flesh, emptying the law of commandments in decrees, so that He might join the two in Himself in one new man, making peace (Eph. 2:14). And other things, which it is long to insert. What, then, does this unheard-of novelty mean, unless he also wishes to separate Christ from the substance of the Holy Spirit, and that He could not, from Himself, work signs and virtues without this mediation or even help?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"CONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS","severity":"info","text":"This heading marks the transition from Cyril's anathematism to Marius Mercator's rebuttal, structuring the work as a series of objections.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"1 Tim. ii, 5","severity":"info","text":"The citation 'Unus enim mediator Dei et hominum homo Jesus Christus' is a paraphrase of 1 Timothy 2:5, though the Vulgate reads 'Unus Deus, unus et mediator Dei et hominum, homo Christus Iesus'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Ephes. ii, 14","severity":"info","text":"The reference to Ephesians 2:14 is a loose paraphrase; the Vulgate reads 'quoniam per ipsum habemus accessum ad Patrem' and does not contain the wall imagery. The author likely conflates Ephesians with other Pauline passages.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"mediationem","severity":"info","text":"The term 'mediationem' (mediation) is used polemically to reject Nestorius' concept of a mediating role for the Holy Spirit between the Word and Christ, which the author deems novel and heretical.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Marius Mercator","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator was a 5th-century Latin theologian and translator of Nestorian texts, active in the aftermath of the Council of Ephesus (431). His 'Contradictio' here refutes Nestorius' anathematisms.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Ephes. ii, 14","severity":"caution","text":"The citation of Ephesians 2:14 is textually suspect; the verse as given does not match the Vulgate. The author may be citing from memory or using a variant Latin version.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The precise source of the Ephesians citation is unclear; it may conflate multiple Pauline passages or reflect a lost Latin version."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":21,"ref":"p21","source":"ANATHEMATISMUS DECIMUS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Pontificem [Baluz. add. et apostolum] confessionis nostrae Christum factum esse, sancta Scriptura designat: Obtulit enim seipsum Deo Patri pro nobis in odorem suavitatis (Eph. v, 2). Si quis ergo pontificem nostrum et apostolum alium dixerit esse factum praeterquam ipsum Deum Dei Verbum, quando factum est caro, et secundum nos homo, sed quasi alterum, praeter ipsum, specialiter hominem ex muliere; et si quis dicit, quia pro se obtulit semetipsum oblationem, et non magis pro nobis solis, non enim indiguit oblatione qui peccatum nescit; anathema sit.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS DECIMUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.\n\nNestorius dixit: Si quis illud in principio Verbum pontificem et apostolum confessionis nostrae factum esse, seque ipsum obtulisse pro nobis dicat, et non Emmanuelis esse apostolatum potius dixerit, oblationemque secundum eamdem dividat rationem ei qui univit et illi qui unitus est, ad unam societatem Filii, hoc est, Deo quae Dei sunt, et homini quae sunt hominis, non deputans; anathema sit.","english":"The Tenth Anathematism of Saint Cyril.\n\nCyril said: The holy Scripture indicates that Christ became the high priest [Baluz. adds: and apostle] of our confession; for he offered himself to God the Father for us as a sweet fragrance (Eph. 5:2). If, therefore, anyone says that our high priest and apostle became someone other than God the Word himself, when he became flesh and, according to us, man, but as if another, distinct from him, a man specially from a woman; and if anyone says that he offered the offering for himself, and not rather for us alone—for he who knows no sin had no need of an offering—let him be anathema.\n\nThe Tenth Anathematism of Nestorius.\n\nIn the manuscript codices.\n\nNestorius said: If anyone says that the Word in the beginning became the high priest and apostle of our confession, and offered himself for us, and does not rather say that the apostleship belongs to Emmanuel, and divide the offering according to the same principle between the one who united and the one who was united, not assigning to the single fellowship of the Son, that is, to God what is God's and to man what is man's, let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS DECIMUS S. CYRILLI","severity":"info","text":"This passage presents the tenth anathematism of Cyril and the corresponding counter-anathematism of Nestorius, forming a paired structure typical of the polemic.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Eph. v, 2","severity":"info","text":"Cyril cites Ephesians 5:2 (Vulgate: 'obtulit enim seipsum Deo Patri pro nobis in odorem suavitatis') to support Christ's self-offering as high priest.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"glossary","lemma":"pontificem","severity":"info","text":"The term 'pontificem' (high priest) is central to Cyril's argument that Christ, as God the Word incarnate, is the sole mediator and priest, not a separate human figure.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"Emmanuelis","severity":"info","text":"Nestorius uses 'Emmanuel' (Hebrew: 'God with us') to refer to the human Christ, distinct from the divine Word, reflecting his dyophysite Christology.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"external","lemma":"Baluz. add. et apostolum","severity":"caution","text":"The source edition notes that Baluze adds 'et apostolum' to Cyril's text, indicating a textual variant in the manuscript tradition that may affect interpretation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"In mss. codicibus","severity":"caution","text":"The heading 'In mss. codicibus' for Nestorius's anathematism suggests the text is derived from manuscript sources, not a standard edition, implying possible corruption or variation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'secundum nos homo' in Cyril's text is ambiguous: it may mean 'according to us, man' (i.e., in our view) or 'like us, man' (i.e., consubstantial with humanity).","Nestorius's phrase 'ad unam societatem Filii' is unclear: it could refer to a single fellowship of the Son (Christ) or a single communion of the Son (as a title)."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":22,"ref":"p22","source":"In libris editis.\n\nSi quis illud in principio Verbum pontificem et apostolum confessionis nostrae factum esse, seque ipsum obtulisse pro nobis dicat, et non Emmanuelis esse apostolum dixerit, oblationemque secundum eamdem rationem ei tribuat qui univit, si quis unitus, ad unam communitatem Filii, hoc est, Deo quae Dei et homini quae sunt hominis; anathema sit.\n\nCONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nCatholicus contradicit. Ecce iterum cum suo, quia ipsius semper dicendus est, Emmanuele [Baluz. Emmanuel] quam manifestus apparuit! Cui propria merita separatim consignat, tamquam infimo et longe inferiori quam ille est alius quem decernit non esse nobiscum Deum; naturaliter tamen Deum, qui illum dignatione conjunctionis, vocabulo seu nuncupatione, non autem natura, faciat Deum.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS UNDECIMUS CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Si quis non confitetur carnem Domini vivificatricem esse, tamquam propriam ipsius Dei Verbi, sed quasi alterius cujuspiam praeter ipsum, conjuncti quidem [Baluz. quem eidem] secundum dignitatem, aut secundum quod solam divinam inhabitationem habuerit, et non potius, ut diximus, vivificatricem esse, quia facta est propria Verbi Dei, cui omnia vivificare possibile est; anathema sit.","english":"In the published books.\n\nIf anyone says that the Word in the beginning became the high priest and apostle of our confession, and that he offered himself for us, and does not say that he is the apostle of Emmanuel, and attributes the offering according to the same principle to him who united, if anyone united, to one community of the Son, that is, to God what is of God and to man what is of man, let him be anathema.\n\nCONTRADICTION OF MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nThe Catholic contradicts. Behold again with his Emmanuel, as he must always be called, how manifest he has appeared! To whom he assigns separate merits, as to one lowly and far inferior to that other whom he determines not to be God with us; yet naturally God, who by the condescension of union, by title or appellation, but not by nature, makes him God.\n\nTHE ELEVENTH ANATHEMATISM OF CYRIL.\n\nCyril said: If anyone does not confess that the flesh of the Lord is life-giving, as being the very own flesh of the Word of God himself, but as of some other person besides him, indeed united to him according to dignity, or as having only divine habitation, and not rather, as we have said, that it is life-giving because it became the own flesh of the Word of God, to whom it is possible to give life to all things, let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"In libris editis","severity":"info","text":"This heading marks a citation from Cyril's published works, likely his third letter to Nestorius, which contained the eleven anathematisms.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"glossary","lemma":"Emmanuel","severity":"info","text":"Emmanuel (Hebrew: 'God with us') is used by Nestorius to denote the human Christ, distinct from the divine Word; Marius Mercator mocks this as a separate, inferior entity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"Marius Mercator","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator was a Latin theologian and translator active in the 5th century, known for his anti-Nestorian writings and for transmitting Cyril's anathematisms to the West.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Contradictio Marii Mercatoris","severity":"info","text":"Mercator's contradiction frames Nestorius as assigning separate merits to the human Emmanuel, implying a low Christology that denies the unity of Christ's person.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Verbum in principio","severity":"info","text":"Echoes John 1:1 ('In the beginning was the Word'), grounding Cyril's argument that the Word himself became high priest and apostle, not a separate human figure.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"si quis unitus","severity":"caution","text":"The phrase 'si quis unitus' is grammatically ambiguous; it may be a corruption or a conditional clause referring to the one who is united, possibly the human nature.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'si quis unitus' in the first anathematism is syntactically unclear; it may be a scribal error or a deliberate conditional.","The reference to 'published books' (In libris editis) is vague; it likely refers to Cyril's collected letters or anathematisms."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":23,"ref":"p23","source":"ANATHEMATISMUS UNDECIMUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.\n\nNestorius dixit: Si quis unitam carnem Verbo Deo [Baluz. Dei], ex naturae propriae possibilitate, vivificatricem esse dixerit, ipso Domino et Deo pronuntiante: Spiritus est qui vivificat; caro autem nihil prodest; anathema sit.\n\nIn libris editis.\n\nSi quis unitam carnem ex naturae propriae possibilitate vivificatricem esse dixerit, ipso Domino et Deo pronuntiante: Spiritus est qui vivificat; care nihil prodest [Joan. vi, 63); anathema sit. «Et sunjungit: Spiritus est Deus (Joan. iv, 24), ac non pronuntiatum est. Si quis ergo Deum Verbum canaliter secundum substantiam carnem factum esse dicat; hoc autem modo et specialiter custodit, et maxime in Domino Christo post resurrectionem suam discipulis suis dicente: Palpate et videte, quia spiritus ossa et carnem non habet, sicut me videtis habere (Luc. xxiv, 39); anathema sit.","english":"THE ELEVENTH ANATHEMATISM OF NESTORIUS.\n\nIn the manuscript codices.\n\nNestorius said: If anyone says that the flesh united to the Word of God [Baluz. God] is, by the possibility of its own nature, life-giving, while the Lord and God Himself declares: “It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh, however, avails nothing,” let him be anathema.\n\nIn the published books.\n\nIf anyone says that the united flesh is, by the possibility of its own nature, life-giving, while the Lord and God Himself declares: “It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh avails nothing” (John 6:63), let him be anathema. And he adds: “Spirit is God” (John 4:24), and it is not pronounced. Therefore, if anyone says that the Word of God became flesh carnally according to substance, and this in such a way and especially preserves it, and especially in the Lord Christ after His resurrection saying to His disciples: “Touch and see, because a spirit has no bones and flesh, as you see me to have” (Luke 24:39), let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Anathema undecimus Nestorii","severity":"info","text":"The passage is the eleventh of twelve anathemas attributed to Nestorius, each structured as a conditional condemnation. The rubric marks a new unit in the series.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Spiritus est qui vivificat; caro autem nihil prodest","severity":"info","text":"This quotation is from John 6:63, where Jesus states that the Spirit gives life, while the flesh avails nothing. The author uses it to argue against the flesh of Christ being life-giving by nature.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Spiritus est Deus","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'Spirit is God' is a reference to John 4:24, though the author notes it is not pronounced in the same way. This supports the argument that only the Spirit, not the flesh, is divine.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Palpate et videte, quia spiritus ossa et carnem non habet","severity":"info","text":"This quotation from Luke 24:39 is used to argue that Christ’s resurrected body had bones and flesh, unlike a spirit, thus countering docetic interpretations.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"In mss. codicibus / In libris editis","severity":"info","text":"The passage is transmitted in two versions: one from manuscript codices and one from published books. The published version includes additional material, suggesting textual variation in the tradition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Baluz. Dei","severity":"caution","text":"The source edition notes a variant reading: 'Verbo Dei' in Baluze's edition versus 'Verbo Deo' in others. This affects the grammatical case and may reflect scribal correction or error.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'et non pronuntiatum est' is ambiguous: it may mean the quotation is not found in the standard text of John 4:24, or that it is not pronounced in the liturgy. The reading taken is that the author notes a textual discrepancy.","The clause 'hoc autem modo et specialiter custodit' is syntactically unclear; it may mean 'preserves this in a special way' or 'guards this especially.' The translation follows the latter."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":24,"ref":"p24","source":"CONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nCatholicus contradicit. Claudendae Christianae aures, ne tantam tamque apertam blasphemiam audiant. Ait namque, carnem Christi per suam naturam vivificatricem non esse, et adhibet evangelicum testimonium, et id impietati suae existimat convenire, quod quam sceleste et violenter attraxerit, ipsa veritas evangelica feriat oculos ejus. Nam ibi tunc dictum est: Spiritus est qui vivificat; caro nihil prodest; quando Christus [Baluz. om. Christus] docebat apostolos secundum interiorem hominem, id est, non carnaliter, sed spiritualiter vivere oportere, et secundum hoc intelligere quae audiebant. Ubi recte convenit dictum: Spiritus est qui vivificat; caro nihil prodest.\n\nEt hic insanissimus [Baluz. sanctissimus], ut inutilem et fragilem, atque infirmam esse carnem Christi persuadeat, ad suum blasphemum sensum sententiam hanc Salvatoris violenter attraxit, tamquam de sua carne ille dixisset, carnem nihil prodesse. Et ubi est Domini illud dictum? Nisi manducaveritis carnem meam, et biberitis sanguinem meum, nor habebitis vitam in vobismetipsis (Joan. vi, 54). Quam totam evangelicam circumstantiam ad confutandum eum, vel sequaces ejus, inserere necessarium, et plus quam utile duximus.","english":"CONTRADICTION BY MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nThe Catholic contradicts. Christian ears must be closed, lest they hear so great and so open a blasphemy. For he says that the flesh of Christ is not life-giving by its own nature, and he adduces the evangelical testimony, and thinks it suits his impiety, which, however wickedly and violently he has dragged it in, the evangelical truth itself strikes his eyes. For there it was then said: \"It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh avails nothing\"; when Christ was teaching the apostles that they ought to live according to the inner man, that is, not carnally but spiritually, and to understand what they heard accordingly. To this the saying rightly applies: \"It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh avails nothing.\"\n\nAnd this most insane man, in order to persuade that the flesh of Christ is useless and fragile and weak, has violently dragged this saying of the Savior to his blasphemous meaning, as if He had said that concerning His own flesh, that the flesh avails nothing. And where is that saying of the Lord? \"Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will not have life in yourselves\" (John 6:54). We have deemed it necessary and more than useful to insert this whole evangelical context to refute him or his followers.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Contradictio Marii Mercatoris","severity":"info","text":"This heading introduces the refutation by Marius Mercator, marking a shift from the citation of Nestorius to the Catholic response.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Spiritus est qui vivificat; caro nihil prodest","severity":"info","text":"The author cites John 6:63, where Jesus explains that the Spirit gives life, contrasting it with the flesh. This verse is used by Nestorius to deny the life-giving nature of Christ's flesh.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Nisi manducaveritis carnem meam, et biberitis sanguinem meum, non habebitis vitam in vobismetipsis","severity":"info","text":"The author quotes John 6:54 to counter Nestorius, arguing that Christ's own words affirm the life-giving power of his flesh and blood.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Marius Mercator","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator was a 5th-century Latin theologian and opponent of Nestorius, known for compiling anti-Nestorian works. His authorship of this refutation is traditional but not certain.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"insanissimus","severity":"info","text":"The manuscript tradition shows a variant: Baluze reads 'sanctissimus' (most holy) instead of 'insanissimus' (most insane), likely a scribal correction or error that reverses the polemical tone.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Christus","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text omits 'Christus' in the Baluze edition after 'quando', which may affect the clarity of the subject in the subordinate clause. The English draft supplies it for sense.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of the author (Marius Mercator) is traditional but not securely attested; the work may be anonymous.","The variant 'sanctissimus' for 'insanissimus' in Baluze's edition could reflect a scribal attempt to soften the polemic or a misreading."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":25,"ref":"p25","source":"Dixit ergo Jesus: Amen, amen dico vobis, non Moyses dedit vobis panem de coelo; panis enim Dei est, qui de coelo descendit, et dat vitam mundo. Dixerunt ergo ad eum: Domine, semper da nobis hunc panem. Dixit ergo ad eos Jesus: Ego sum panis vitae; qui venit ad me, non esuriet, et qui credit in me, non sitiet umquam: sed dixi vobis, quia et vidistis me, et non credidistis. Omni quod dat mihi Pater, ad me veniet, et eum qui venit ad me, non ejiciam foras; quia descendi de coelo, non ut faciam voluntatem meam, sed voluntatem ejus qui misit me, ut omnis qui viderit Filium, et credit in eum, habeat vitam aeternam, et ego resuscitabo eum in novissimo die. Murmurabant ergo de eo Judaei ad Jesum, quia dicebat: Ego sum panis, qui de coele descendi, et dicebant: Nonne hic est Joseph filius fabri, cujus nos novimus patrem et matrem? Quomodo ergo dicit, quia de coelo descendi? Respondit ergo Jesus, et dixit: Nolite invicem murmurare. Non potest ad me venire quispiam, nisi eum Pater, qui me misit, attraxerit, et ego resuscitabo eum in novissimo die. Scriptum est enim in Prophetis: Et erunt omnes docti Dei. Omnis ergo qui audit a Patre, et didicit, venit ad me; non quia Patrem vidit quisquam, nisi qui est a Deo, ipse vidit Patrem. Amen, amen dico vobis, omnis qui credit in me, habet vitam aeternam. Ego sum panis vitoe.","english":"Then Jesus said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven; for the bread of God is that which descends from heaven and gives life to the world.” Then they said to him: “Lord, always give us this bread.” Then Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will not hunger, and he who believes in me will never thirst; but I told you that you both saw me and did not believe. Everything that the Father gives to me will come to me, and I will not cast out the one who comes to me; because I descended from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me, so that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” Therefore the Jews murmured about Jesus because he said: “I am the bread that descended from heaven,” and they said: “Is this not the son of Joseph the carpenter, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say that he descended from heaven?” Then Jesus answered and said: “Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. For it is written in the Prophets: ‘And all will be taught of God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned comes to me; not because anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God has himself seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say to you, everyone who believes in me has eternal life. I am the bread of life.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Dixit ergo Jesus: Amen, amen dico vobis, non Moyses dedit vobis panem de coelo","severity":"info","text":"This passage is a free Latin expansion of John 6:32-35, 37-40, 48-51, but with extensive apocryphal additions not found in the canonical Gospel.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"panis vitae","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'bread of life' (panis vitae) is a central Johannine image (John 6:35, 48) used in anti-Nestorian polemic to assert the unity of Christ's divine and human natures in the Eucharist.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Murmurabant ergo de eo Judaei","severity":"info","text":"The narrative shifts from Jesus' discourse to a dialogue with the Jews, echoing the Gospel of John's pattern of misunderstanding followed by clarification, here adapted to emphasize Christ's divine origin.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Ego sum panis vitae","severity":"info","text":"This expanded version of the Johannine bread discourse was likely composed to counter Nestorian claims that Christ's flesh was not life-giving, by stressing the direct identification of Christ with the life-giving bread.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Scriptum est enim in Prophetis: Et erunt omnes docti Dei","severity":"caution","text":"The citation 'Et erunt omnes docti Dei' is not a known biblical verse; it may be a paraphrase or a corruption of a prophetic text, possibly from Isaiah or the Psalms, but its source is uncertain.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin text is a free composition, not a direct translation of a known Coptic or Greek source; the relationship to the original Coptic of the work is unclear.","The phrase 'non quia Patrem vidit quisquam, nisi qui est a Deo, ipse vidit Patrem' is ambiguous: it may mean that only the Son (who is from God) has seen the Father, or that only those who are from God (i.e., believers) have seen him."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[]},{"i":26,"ref":"p26","source":"Patres vestri manducaverunt manna in deserto, et mortui sunt; hic est panis qui de coelo descendit, ut qui manducaverit ex eo, non moriatur. Ego sum panis vitoe, qui de coelo descendi; si quis manducaverit ex hoc pane, vivet in aeternum; et panis quem ego dabo, caro mea est pro saeculi vita. Litigabant ergo Judaei ad invicem dicentes: Quomodo potest iste dare nobis carnem suam manducare? Dixit ad eos Jesus: Amen, amen dico robis, nisi manducaveritis carnem Filii hominis, et biberitis sanguinem ejus, non habebitis vitam in vobismetipsis. Qui manducat carnem meam, et bibit sanguinem meum, habet vitam aeternam, et ego resuscitabo eum in novissimo die; caro enim mea est vere cibus, et sanguis meus vere est potus. Qui manducat meam carnem, et bibit meum sanguinem, in me manet, et ego in illo. Sicut enim misit me Pater, et ego vivo per Patrem, qui manducat me, et ille vivet per me. Hic est panis qui de coelo descendit, non sicut manducaverunt patres vestri in deserto manna, et mortui sunt; qui manducat hunc panem, vivet in aeternum. Haec dixit docens in synagoga in Capharnaum. Multi ergo audientes de discipulis dixerunt: Durus est hic sermo, quis potest audire eum? Sciens autem Jesus apud semetipsum, quia murmuraverant de hoc discipuli ejus, dixit eis: Hoc vos offendit; si ergo videritis Filium ho minis escendentem in coelum, ubi erat prius.","english":"Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and they died; this is the bread which descends from heaven, so that whoever eats of it does not die. I am the bread of life, who descended from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. Therefore the Jews argued among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day; for my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. For just as the Father sent me, and I live through the Father, so whoever eats me will live through me. This is the bread which descends from heaven, not as your fathers ate manna in the desert and died; whoever eats this bread will live forever. He said these things teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum. Therefore many of the disciples, hearing, said: This speech is harsh; who can hear it? But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples had murmured about this, said to them: This offends you; if, then, you see the Son of man ascending into heaven, where he was before.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"panis qui de coelo descendit","severity":"info","text":"The phrase echoes John 6:31-35, where Jesus contrasts manna with the true bread from heaven. The author adapts the Johannine discourse to emphasize Eucharistic realism.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"caro mea est pro saeculi vita","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'caro mea est pro saeculi vita' (my flesh is for the life of the world) is a distinctive formulation not found verbatim in the canonical Gospels, likely a theological expansion by the author to stress the salvific efficacy of the Eucharist.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Litigabant ergo Judaei ad invicem","severity":"info","text":"The depiction of Jews arguing among themselves about Jesus' words reflects a common anti-Jewish polemical trope in early Christian literature, used here to highlight the incomprehension of non-believers before the mystery of the Eucharist.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Haec dixit docens in synagoga in Capharnaum","severity":"info","text":"This narrative frame (teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum) is a literary device that situates the Eucharistic discourse within a plausible setting, echoing John 6:59 but adding a specific location to enhance verisimilitude.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Durus est hic sermo","severity":"info","text":"The disciples' reaction ('This speech is harsh') reflects early Christian awareness of the shocking nature of the Eucharistic language, a point later cited by patristic authors to explain the need for catechetical preparation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin text is a free adaptation of John 6, not a direct translation; the author's source for the expanded Eucharistic sayings is uncertain, possibly from apocryphal or liturgical traditions."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":27,"ref":"p27","source":"Spiritus es qui vivificat; caro nihil prodest (Joan. vi).\n\nSed quid miramur, eum hoc fecisse de Evangelii testimonio, cum et illud aliud similiter violenter attraxerit, et abusus sit ad impietatem sensus sui, quo putavit evangelica auctoritate ei robur afferre, ubi dictum est: a Quod de carne natum est, caro est; quod de spiritu, spiritus est (Joan. iii, 6). Namque hoc testimonium adhibuit in illo insipientissimo tractatu, in quo primo de virgineo partu disputavit. Quo in loco sic dixit: Non peperit Deum Maria, vir optime (Ibid.); quod enim de carne nascitur, caro est, et quod de spiritu, spiritus est: sed peperit hominem Deitatis instrumentum, et hominem portantem Deum. Cum illo tempore ad Nicodemum archisynagogum tunc non credentem dictis Salvatoris sermo esset, et quia carnaliter saperet, cum audiret: Nisi quis renatus fuerit denuo, non potest salvus fieri (Joan. iii, 3); retulit ille: Quomodo potest istud fieri? Numquid senex iterum introibo in uterum matris meoe, ut renascar (Ibid.)? Tuncque, notata stultitia ejus, qua, ut dixi, non spiritaliter, sed carnaliter saperet [Baluz. separet], aperte audivit: Nisi quis renatus fuerit ex aqua et spiritu, non potest intrare in regnum Dei; sive ut alibi scriptum est: Nisi quis renatus fuerit denuo; ubi subjunxit: Quod de carne natum est, caro est.","english":"It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh is of no avail (John 6:63).\n\nBut why should we be surprised that he did this with the testimony of the Gospel, when he likewise violently twisted and abused that other testimony to the impiety of his own understanding, by which he thought to lend strength to his position with evangelical authority, where it is said: \"What is born of the flesh is flesh; what is born of the Spirit is spirit\" (John 3:6). For he employed this testimony in that most foolish treatise in which he first discoursed on the virginal birth. In that passage he spoke thus: \"Mary did not give birth to God, best of men (ibid.); for what is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit; but she gave birth to a man, an instrument of the Divinity, and a man bearing God.\" At that time, when the discourse was to Nicodemus, the archisynagogue, who then did not believe the words of the Savior, and because he thought carnally, when he heard: \"Unless someone is born again, he cannot be saved\" (John 3:3), he replied: \"How can that happen? Can an old man enter again into his mother's womb to be reborn (ibid.)?\" And then, his folly having been noted, by which, as I said, he thought not spiritually but carnally [Baluz. separates], he clearly heard: \"Unless someone is born again from water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God\"; or as it is written elsewhere: \"Unless someone is born again\"; where he added: \"What is born of the flesh is flesh.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Spiritus es qui vivificat; caro nihil prodest (Joan. vi).","severity":"info","text":"The Latin cites John 6:63, though the Vulgate reads 'Spiritus est qui vivificat' (It is the Spirit that gives life). The variant 'es' may be a scribal error or a deliberate adaptation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Quod de carne natum est, caro est; quod de spiritu, spiritus est (Joan. iii, 6).","severity":"info","text":"The author attributes this saying to John 3:6, but the canonical Gospel of John does not contain this verse. It may be a misremembered or apocryphal citation, or a conflation of John 3:3-6.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Nicodemum archisynagogum","severity":"info","text":"Nicodemus is described as 'archisynagogue' (ruler of the synagogue), a title not found in the New Testament but used in later Christian tradition to emphasize his Jewish authority.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Baluz. separet","severity":"caution","text":"The note 'Baluz. separet' indicates a textual variant in the edition by Étienne Baluze, who reads 'separaret' (would separate) instead of 'saperet' (thought). This affects the interpretation of the passage.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Sed quid miramur...","severity":"info","text":"This passage is a narrative unit that recounts the author's critique of Nestorius's misuse of John 3:6, linking it to the earlier discussion of John 6:63 and the virginal birth.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The exact source of the saying 'Quod de carne natum est, caro est' is unclear; it may be a paraphrase or a non-canonical tradition.","The reading 'saperet' vs. 'separaret' in the Baluze edition changes the sense from 'thought carnally' to 'would separate carnally'."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":28,"ref":"p28","source":"Haec cum ita sint, ubi et quando adhibendum iste putavit dictum hoc: Quod de came natum est, caro est? scilicet ut Deum Christum ex Virgine natum negaret. Namque hoc testimonium, quid ei proficit, nisi ut, qui ex carne Virginis caro natus est, purus [Baluz. sicut] homo sit tantum, in quo Deus Verbum habitare dignatus est.\n\nANATHEMATISMUS DUODECIMUS S. CYRILLI.\n\nCyrillus dixit: Si quis non confitetur Deum Verbum carne passum esse, et carne crucifixum, et mortem carne gustasse, factumque primogenitum ex mortuis, secundum quod est et vita, et vivificator, tamquam Deus; anathema sit. ANATHEMATISMUS DUODECIMUS NESTORII.\n\nIn mss. codicibus.\n\nNestorius dixit: quis confitens passiones carnis, has quoque Verbo Dei et carni simul, in qua factus est, sine discretione dignitatis naturarum, tribuerit; anathema sit.\n\nIn libris editis.\n\nSi quis confitens passiones carpis, eas quoque tamquam Verbo Dei tribuit, quas etiam carni in qua factus est adhibuerit, non discernens dignitatem naturarum anathema sit.","english":"This being so, when and where did he think to apply this saying: \"What is born of flesh is flesh\"?—namely, to deny that God Christ was born of the Virgin. For what does this testimony avail him, except that he who was born flesh from the flesh of the Virgin is only a mere man, in whom God the Word deigned to dwell?\n\nTHE TWELFTH ANATHEMATISM OF SAINT CYRIL.\n\nCyril said: If anyone does not confess that God the Word suffered in the flesh, and was crucified in the flesh, and tasted death in the flesh, and became the firstborn from the dead, according as he is both life and life-giver, as God: let him be anathema.\n\nTHE TWELFTH ANATHEMATISM OF NESTORIUS.\n\nIn the manuscript codices.\n\nNestorius said: If anyone, while confessing the passions of the flesh, also attributes these to the Word of God and to the flesh in which he was made, without distinction of the dignity of the natures: let him be anathema.\n\nIn the published books.\n\nIf anyone, while confessing the passions of the flesh, attributes them also to the Word of God, as he applies them also to the flesh in which he was made, not distinguishing the dignity of the natures: let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS DUODECIMUS S. CYRILLI","severity":"info","text":"The passage juxtaposes Cyril's and Nestorius's twelfth anathematisms, a structural pairing that highlights the doctrinal opposition at the Council of Ephesus (431).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Quod de came natum est, caro est","severity":"info","text":"This Latin phrase echoes John 6:63 (spiritus est qui vivificat, caro non prodest) but is not a direct quotation; it likely reflects a common anti-Nestorian tag derived from patristic exegesis.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS DUODECIMUS NESTORII","severity":"info","text":"The two versions of Nestorius's anathematism (from manuscript codices and published books) indicate textual variation in transmission, possibly reflecting later editorial adjustments to clarify Nestorius's position.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"dignitatis naturarum","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'dignity of the natures' is a key Nestorian term, asserting a distinction between Christ's human and divine natures that Cyril's miaphysite Christology rejects.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"ANATHEMATISMUS DUODECIMUS S. CYRILLI","severity":"info","text":"Cyril's twelfth anathematism was a flashpoint in the Nestorian controversy, condemned by Eastern bishops at the Council of Ephesus (431) but later defended at the Council of Chalcedon (451).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"In mss. codicibus / In libris editis","severity":"caution","text":"The source edition (ogl-pl) signals two textual traditions for Nestorius's anathematism; the manuscript version may be closer to the original, while the printed version could reflect later emendation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'came' in 'Quod de came natum est' is likely a scribal error for 'carne' (flesh), as the standard phrase is 'quod de carne natum est, caro est'.","The phrase 'purus [Baluz. sicut] homo' in the Latin text shows a textual variant: Baluzius's edition reads 'sicut' (as) instead of 'purus' (mere), affecting the interpretation of Nestorius's Christology."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":29,"ref":"p29","source":"CONTRADICTIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nCatholicus contradicit. Quid furit incassum? Quid insanit inaniter? Nemo nisi [Baluz. om. nisi] mente captus, dum tamen Christianus, illi ineffabili divinae naturae, secundum ipsam vivam essentiam vel naturam, vel quas passiones caro nostra, vel quas animus perturbationes et mobilitates, aut ex laetis, aut ex tristibus patitur, tribuit, quia nec animae humanae corporeos dolores assignat; est enim in his impassibilis, quia et immortalis, quamvis proprias suas, ut supra memoravimus, habeat ex mobilitate passiones. Tamen quamdiu in consortio carnis suae degit, ut doloribus illius compatiatur ex tristitia, necesse est, nihil ipsa, ut diximus, doloris [Baluz. doloribus) patiens in sua essentia vel natura. Ita incomparabiliter, et inaestimabiliter, atque inenarrabiliter illud Verbum, Dei Filius, Deus gerens hominem compositum [Baluz. passus] ex anima et corpore, rectis- Sime dicitur passus, quidquid illa humanitas pertulit; ipsius enim propria tota humana illa substantia erat, quam sanandam susceperat, sibi conjungens unum se totum cum illa faciendo, et cum illa Deus manens quod erat, existens etiam homo.","english":"CONTRADICTION OF MARIUS MERCATOR.\n\nThe Catholic contradicts. Why does he rage in vain? Why does he rave to no purpose? No one, unless he is mentally deranged—yet still a Christian—attributes to that ineffable divine nature, according to its own living essence or nature, either the passions which our flesh suffers or the perturbations and agitations of the soul, whether from joyful or sorrowful things, because he does not assign bodily pains even to the human soul; for it is impassible in these matters, since it is also immortal, although it has its own passions, as we recalled above, arising from mobility. Yet as long as it dwells in the company of its flesh, so that it necessarily feels compassion for that flesh’s pains from sorrow, it itself suffers nothing of pain, as we have said, in its own essence or nature. Thus, incomparably, inestimably, and ineffably, that Word, the Son of God, God, bearing the composite man of soul and body, is rightly said to have suffered whatever that humanity endured; for that whole human substance was his own, which he had undertaken to heal, joining it to himself, making himself one whole with it, and, while remaining God what he was, also existing as man.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"CONTRADICTIO MARI MERCATORIS","severity":"info","text":"The heading identifies the author as Marius Mercator, a Latin theologian and contemporary of Cyril, who compiled anti-Nestorian materials. This passage is his rebuttal to Nestorius.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Deus gerens hominem compositum","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'God bearing the composite man' reflects the communicatio idiomatum, the theological principle that attributes of both natures are exchanged in Christ. It counters Nestorius' separation of Christ's natures.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Catholicus contradicit","severity":"info","text":"Marius Mercator identifies himself as 'the Catholic' in opposition to Nestorius. This reflects the 5th-century context where 'Catholic' denoted orthodox Nicene Christianity, especially after the Council of Ephesus (431).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"parallel","kind":"parallel","basis":"text","lemma":"Quid furit incassum? Quid insanit inaniter?","severity":"info","text":"The rhetorical questions echo the style of Latin polemic, similar to Jerome's invectives. They emphasize the irrationality of attributing human passions to the divine nature, a key point in Cyrillian Christology.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"narrative","severity":"info","text":"Though classified as narrative, this passage is a polemical argument within a larger refutation. It uses analogy (human soul and body) to explain the union of divine and human in Christ without confusion.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"gerens hominem compositum [Baluz. passus]","severity":"caution","text":"The source edition notes a variant: Baluze reads 'passus' (suffered) instead of 'compositum' (composite). This affects the meaning: 'bearing the composite man' vs. 'having suffered the man'. The reading here follows the manuscript tradition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'gerens hominem compositum' may be a scribal error for 'passus hominem compositum' (having suffered the composite man), as noted by Baluze. The current reading assumes 'compositum' is correct, but the variant suggests possible textual corruption."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":30,"ref":"p30","source":"Homo quoque Deus ad judicandum est venturus, secundum prophetae dictum, qui [Baluz. quo] visibilem dicit esse venturum: Videbunt, inquiens, in quem compupugerunt (Zach. xii, 10). Et alius propheta: Et homo est et quis cognoscit eum? In Actibus autem apostolorum, angeli ad eosdem apostolos: Viri Galiloei, quid miramini aspicientes in coelum? Hic Jesus, qui assumptus est a vobis in coelum, sic veniet, sicut vidistis eum euntem, in coelum (Act. i 14).\n\nDISSERTATIO MARII MERCATORIS.\n\nseu APPENDIX AD CONTRADICTIONEM (??) ANATHEMATISMI NESTORIANI.\n\nQuae refutatio secundi sermonis, et posteriorum duorum, ac secundi anathematismi retractatio.\n\nPorr(??) autem illud ejus, a quod in superiore sermone vel tractatu legitur, qui est circa finem quaternionis, ad locum ubi signum asteriseorum est, indiscussum remanere non debet, ubi magni ludibrii sensus inauditos inferre molitur. Vult enim quod Christus a Matthaeo neutrae naturae esse praedicatus sit. Quod si ita est, quod absit; ergo nullius erit, nis(??) forte, quod ejus capitis periculo dictum sit, belluinae.","english":"Man also, as God, is to come to judgment, according to the prophet’s saying, who declares that the visible one will come: “They will see,” he says, “the one whom they pierced” (Zech. 12:10). And another prophet: “He is both man and who knows him?” In the Acts of the Apostles, however, the angels say to the same apostles: “Men of Galilee, why do you marvel, gazing into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come just as you saw him going into heaven” (Acts 1:14).\n\nDISSERTATION OF MARIUS MERCATOR,\n\nOR APPENDIX TO THE CONTRADICTION (??) OF THE NESTORIAN ANATHEMATISM.\n\nWhich is a refutation of the second sermon, and a retractation of the two later ones, and of the second anathematism.\n\nMoreover, that statement of his, which is read in the earlier sermon or treatise, near the end of the quaternion, at the place where the asterisk mark is, ought not to remain undiscussed, where he attempts to introduce unheard-of meanings of great mockery. For he wishes that Christ be proclaimed by Matthew as being of neither nature. But if this is so—which God forbid—then he will be of no nature, unless perhaps, as was said at the risk of his own head, of a beastly nature.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Videbunt, inquiens, in quem compupugerunt","severity":"info","text":"The citation of Zechariah 12:10 is adapted from the Vetus Latina; the verb compupugerunt (they pierced) reflects a variant reading, possibly influenced by Christological interpretation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Viri Galiloei, quid miramini aspicientes in coelum? Hic Jesus, qui assumptus est a vobis in coelum, sic veniet, sicut vidistis eum euntem, in coelum","severity":"info","text":"The quotation of Acts 1:14 is not found in the canonical text; it likely derives from a lost apocryphal tradition or a Latin liturgical adaptation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"neutrae naturae","severity":"info","text":"The phrase neutrae naturae (of neither nature) is central to the Nestorian argument that Christ is neither fully divine nor fully human, which the author refutes as implying a beastly nature.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"quaternionis","severity":"info","text":"The term quaternionis refers to a gathering of four leaves in a codex, indicating the physical location of the disputed passage in the manuscript.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"DISSERTATIO MARII MERCATORIS","severity":"info","text":"The heading marks a shift from the main text to a refutation attributed to Marius Mercator, possibly an appendix added to counter the Nestorian anathematisms.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Porr(??) autem illud ejus","severity":"caution","text":"The text at Porr(??) is corrupt; the reading is uncertain, and the sense may be incomplete. The brackets indicate a lacuna or illegible passage.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of the second prophet cited (Et alius propheta: Et homo est et quis cognoscit eum?) is unclear; it may be a loose paraphrase of a biblical or apocryphal source.","The phrase belluinae (beastly nature) is a rhetorical exaggeration; its precise referent in Nestorius' teaching is not specified."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":31,"ref":"p31","source":"Hanc autem illi cum impietate vecordiam ultimam parit pravos sensus ejus, quo duplicem Christum pronuntiat, velut hominem et Deum a se natura divisos, cautissimus quasi et rationis liquidae disputator: et non videt alterum haereticam vaniore cautela occurentem sibi, qui ei Christum apud se fabricatum triplicem ingerat, ex anima scilicet, et corpore, et Deo.\n\nQuid si ei Apollinaris quoque in faciem veniat, quemlibet communem hominem, (??) anima, et corpore, et mente definit; aliud mentem esse volens seu rationem, aliud animam diversa scilicet naturae, diversaeque substantiae: qui quamvis in Christo mentem, seu rationem non fuisse, sed animam sine mente, pro ea autem Domini Verbum, quod officium mentis impleret, cum impietate deliret; tamen si quid ille praevaluisset, quod absit, ut homo communis, ut diximus, triplex esse crederetur. Nonne hic insanissimus magister quadruplicem nobis intulerat Christum, ex anima, corpore, mente, et Deo?","english":"This madness, the ultimate impiety, he begets from his perverse opinion, by which he proclaims a twofold Christ, as if man and God were divided in nature from each other, a most cautious disputant, as it were, of clear reasoning; and he does not see another heretic, with a more empty caution, running to meet him, who would thrust upon him a threefold Christ fabricated by himself, namely from soul, body, and God.\n\nWhat if Apollinaris also should come before his face, who defines any common man as consisting of soul, body, and mind, wishing mind or reason to be one thing, soul another, of different nature and different substance; who, although he raves with impiety that in Christ there was no mind or reason, but a soul without mind, and in its place the Word of the Lord, which would fulfill the office of mind; yet if he had prevailed, which God forbid, that a common man, as we have said, should be believed to be threefold, would not this most insane teacher have imposed upon us a fourfold Christ, from soul, body, mind, and God?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"This passage continues the narrative by presenting a hypothetical escalation: from a twofold Christ (Nestorius) to a threefold Christ (an unnamed heretic) to a fourfold Christ (Apollinaris). The argument uses a reductio ad absurdum to expose the logical consequences of Nestorius' position.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"Apollinaris of Laodicea (c. 310–390) taught that in Christ the divine Logos replaced the human mind (νοῦς), resulting in a single nature. The author here caricatures Apollinaris' anthropology as dividing the human into soul, body, and mind, and then applies it to Christ to produce a fourfold composite.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"duplicem Christum","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'duplicem Christum' (twofold Christ) refers to Nestorius' distinction between the human Jesus and the divine Logos as separate subjects, which the author condemns as impious. The term is central to the anti-Nestorian polemic.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"triplicem","severity":"info","text":"'Triplicem' (threefold) describes a hypothetical Christ composed of soul, body, and God, attributed to an unnamed heretic. This is a rhetorical device to show that Nestorius' logic leads to further multiplication of natures.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The author's use of Apollinaris as a foil reflects the post-Chalcedonian context, where both Nestorian and Apollinarian positions were rejected. The passage illustrates how Latin polemicists grouped diverse heresies to discredit opponents.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'cautissimus quasi et rationis liquidae disputator' is ironic, but the exact target of the irony (Nestorius or the unnamed heretic) is ambiguous; the translation takes it as referring to Nestorius.","The text 'quemlibet communem hominem, (??) anima, et corpore, et mente definit' has a lacuna or corruption; the English draft supplies 'consisting of' to fill the gap."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":32,"ref":"p32","source":"His igitur deliramentis omissis, Christum nos Deum ab aeterno Verbum, apud Patrem carnem factum, id est, hominem factum confitemur, ex anima rationali et corpore, manente in eo incommutabili atque inconvertibili, cum Patre et spiritu Sancto, di vina natura unum totum indivisum a sua carne et anima, ut diximus, rationali, non duplicem dicendum, non triplicem, quia nec homo communis unus ex anima rationali et corpore duplex, aut triplex umquam dici potuit, sed in singularitate status sui e unus et una substantia: ita et illa ineffabilis divina Filii Dei majestas in sua persona et substantia una est, cum assumpta anima sua compote mentis suae sive rationis, et solido ac perfecto corpore suo nihil harum ab istis vanissimis et impiissimis dupli, vel tripli appellationum admittens, propter unitatem, vel singularitatem, in qua et hominem suscipere et gerere placuit, ex seque Deo et illo facere unum Dominum a Jesum Christum, cum Patre et Spiritu sancto, in Trinitate unum Deum manentem in saecula. De quo Joannes apostolus in Epistola sua prima, ita ait (I Joan.","english":"Setting aside these ravings, we confess Christ as God the Word from eternity, made flesh—that is, made man—with a rational soul and a body, while the divine nature remains in him unchangeable and inconvertible, one whole with the Father and the Holy Spirit, undivided from his flesh and his rational soul, as we have said. He is not to be called twofold or threefold, just as no ordinary man, consisting of a rational soul and a body, could ever be called twofold or threefold, but in the singularity of his state he is one and one substance. So too that ineffable divine majesty of the Son of God is one in his person and substance, with his assumed soul, possessed of its mind or reason, and his solid and perfect body, admitting none of these most vain and impious appellations of twofold or threefold, on account of the unity or singularity in which it pleased him to take up and bear man, and from himself and that man to make one Lord Jesus Christ, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, remaining one God in the Trinity for ever. Concerning this, the apostle John says in his first epistle (1 John).","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"His igitur deliramentis omissis","severity":"info","text":"The author dismisses Nestorius' views as 'ravings' (deliramentis), a rhetorical move that frames the preceding argument as absurd and unworthy of serious engagement.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"incommutabili atque inconvertibili","severity":"info","text":"These terms affirm the divine nature's immutability and inconvertibility, key Nicene concepts used to argue that the Word's incarnation does not alter his divinity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"De quo Joannes apostolus in Epistola sua prima, ita ait (I Joan.","severity":"info","text":"The author invokes 1 John, likely 1:14 or 4:2-3, to support the unity of Christ's person, though the citation is truncated in the manuscript.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"non duplicem dicendum, non triplicem","severity":"info","text":"The rejection of 'twofold' or 'threefold' Christ counters Nestorius' duality and a hypothetical tripartite heresy, reflecting contemporary Christological debates.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"narrative","severity":"info","text":"This passage concludes the polemical argument by affirming orthodox confession, transitioning from refutation to positive statement, then to scriptural proof.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"I Joan.","severity":"caution","text":"The citation is incomplete; the manuscript breaks off mid-reference, leaving the exact verse uncertain. The editor supplies '1 John' but the specific verse is not given.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The citation 'I Joan.' is truncated; the intended verse is not specified in the manuscript.","The phrase 'in Trinitate unum Deum manentem in saecula' may reflect a doxological formula, but its exact liturgical source is unclear."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":33,"ref":"p33","source":"i, 1): Quod fuit ab initio, quod audivimus et vidimus oculis nostris, quod perspeximus et manus nostrae palpaverunt de Verbo vitae, et vita manifesta est, et vidimus, et testamur, et annuntiamus vobis vitam aeternam, quae erat apud Patrem, et apparuit nobis; quod vidimus, et audivimus, annuntiamus vobis, ut et vos societatem habeatis nobiscum, et societas nostra sit cum Patre, et cum Filio ejus Jesu Christo.\n\nQuid etiam in secundo folio quaternionis noni codicis hujus (ubi hoc signum est) ab illo dictum contineatur, cautus et prudens lector attendat. Cum enim mirae fatuitatis et dementiae hic homo sit, impietatis autem absurdissimae, mirandum est hunc ita vecordem sequaces vel auditores sensus alicujus homines habere potuisse. Ne igitur sanctam Mariam virginem confiteatur, quid vanus dicat, sollicite videamus: Nusquam, inquit, Nicoenum concilium ausum est dicere quia Verbum Deus natus est ex Maria virgine; ait enim: Credimus et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum. Attendite, quia prius eum Patret posuissent Christum, quod duarum naturarum conjunctionem demonstrat, non dixerunt in unum Deum Verbum, sed acceperunt nomen, quod significat utrumque, etc.","english":"What was from the beginning, what we heard and saw with our own eyes, what we examined and our hands touched concerning the Word of life, and life was made manifest, and we saw, and we bear witness, and we announce to you eternal life, which was with the Father, and appeared to us; what we saw and heard, we announce to you, so that you also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship may be with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.\n\nLet the cautious and prudent reader also attend to what is contained in the second folio of the ninth quire of this codex (where this sign is), spoken by him. For since this man is of astonishing foolishness and madness, but of the most absurd impiety, it is remarkable that this so senseless a man could have had followers or hearers of any sense. Lest, therefore, he confess holy Mary the Virgin, let us carefully see what the vain man says: \"Nowhere,\" he says, \"did the Council of Nicaea dare to say that the Word God was born from Mary the Virgin; for it says: 'And we believe in one Lord Jesus Christ.' Attend, because they first placed Christ with the Father, which demonstrates the conjunction of two natures, they did not say 'in one God the Word,' but they took the name which signifies both,\" etc.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Quod fuit ab initio","severity":"info","text":"The opening phrase echoes Johannine language (John 1:1) and the apostolic claim of eyewitness testimony, framing the following citation as a direct, authoritative report.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Verbum vitae","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'Word of life' recalls 1 John 1:1 and the prologue of John, reinforcing the identification of Christ as the divine Logos.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Nicoenum concilium","severity":"info","text":"The Council of Nicaea (325) is invoked as an authority; the author argues that its creed avoided saying 'God the Word was born from Mary,' using instead 'one Lord Jesus Christ' to denote the union of two natures.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"duarum naturarum conjunctionem","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'conjunction of two natures' reflects the Antiochene dyophysite Christology that the author attributes to Nestorius, distinguishing it from the Cyrillian emphasis on the unity of Christ.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"in secundo folio quaternionis noni codicis hujus","severity":"info","text":"The author refers to a specific manuscript location (second folio of the ninth quire) with a sign, indicating that the work is a compilation from a codex containing Nestorius's writings.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"mirae fatuitatis et dementiae","severity":"caution","text":"The author's polemical tone ('astonishing foolishness and madness') may distort the accuracy of the cited Nestorian position; the reader should weigh the rhetorical framing against the theological content.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin text shifts abruptly from a first-person plural testimony to a third-person critique of Nestorius; the exact boundaries of the quoted Nestorian material are unclear, as the passage ends with 'etc.'"],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":34,"ref":"p34","source":"Cum itaque Jesus Christus non sit huic ipsi (concilio) aliud, nisi Dominus, qui Dominus Dei Verbum, Deique Filius sine dubio est, quique cum assumpto suo corpore et anima rationali integer homo factus, in illius sanctae feminae utero figuratus atque procreatus, procedensque jam totus Deus atque homo, totum et totus inseparabiliter unum atque unus est. Hic ipse magister insanus, unde Jesum Christum saltem Dominum dicit, si ei Verbum Dei non est? Neque enim ulli dominatio competit, nisi soli Deo. Anne hoc doctor egregius non novit? Si igitur Jesus etiam Deus non est apud illum, ab ipso, et in ipso, et cum ipso conceptu et partu, ut recte genitrix Dei, id est, secundum rectissimam veterum Patrum definitionem sit, unde illi saltem Dominus visus est esse?\n\ne Deinde Christi nomen quis ei dixit, vel ubi somniavit, duarum esse nomen significativum naturarum, cum magis hominem hoc nomen apud homines exprimat? intelligendum enim est id est, ab unctione dici, quasi unctum, quod Dei naterae non competebat.","english":"Therefore, since Jesus Christ is for this same council nothing other than the Lord, who is undoubtedly the Lord, the Word of God, and the Son of God, and who, with his assumed body and rational soul, was made a complete man, formed and begotten in the womb of that holy woman, and proceeding forth now wholly God and wholly man, is entirely and inseparably one and the same. This same insane teacher, from where does he call Jesus Christ at least \"Lord,\" if the Word of God is not he? For no dominion belongs to anyone except God alone. Does this distinguished doctor not know this? Therefore, if Jesus is not also God for him, from him, and in him, and with him in conception and birth, so that she is rightly the Mother of God, that is, according to the most correct definition of the ancient Fathers, from where did he at least seem to be Lord?\n\nThen, who told him the name \"Christ,\" or where did he dream that it is a name signifying two natures, when rather this name expresses a man among men? For it must be understood that it is derived from anointing, as if \"anointed,\" which did not pertain to the nature of God.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"genitrix Dei","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'genitrix Dei' (Mother of God) is a Latin calque of the Greek Theotokos, a term central to the Nestorian controversy, which the author defends against Nestorius' rejection.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"concilio","severity":"info","text":"The reference to 'this same council' likely alludes to the Council of Ephesus (431), which affirmed the title Theotokos and condemned Nestorius' teaching.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Christi nomen","severity":"info","text":"The author argues that 'Christ' (from Greek christos, 'anointed') denotes a human title, not a name signifying two natures, countering Nestorius' Christology.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The passage shifts from a positive Christological statement to a rhetorical attack on Nestorius, then to a lexical argument about the name 'Christ', reflecting a polemical structure.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"veterum Patrum definitionem","severity":"info","text":"The appeal to 'the most correct definition of the ancient Fathers' invokes patristic authority, a common strategy in Latin anti-Nestorian polemic to ground orthodoxy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of 'this same council' is not explicitly named; it is interpreted as the Council of Ephesus based on context.","The phrase 'unde illi saltem Dominus visus est esse' is ambiguous: it could mean 'from where did he seem to be Lord?' or 'why did he seem to be Lord?'; the translation takes the former."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":35,"ref":"p35","source":"Accedit illud ejus inaestimabilis fatuitatis, quo dicat dixisse illud sanctum concilium: Credimus et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, unigenitum, qui de Deo Patre natus est, consubstantivum, id est, Patri, qui propter nos descendit. Jesus certe, ut ipse vult, homo est; dicatur, quaeso, quomodo ei, vel apud eum, Patri Deo consubstantivus est, nisi tamquam Deus ex Patre genitus Deo? Aut iterum quomodo ei Deus non est, qui de Maria esi? Si natus ita est, quomodo sensit et pronuntiavit concilium Nicaenum, et huic verbo tantum tenus placuit confiteri? Quid ergo solidum? Quid sanum? Quid integrum apud ipsum est?\n\nAccedit etiam aliud impietatis deliramentum, dicentis praetermisisse illos Patres pronuntiare credere se in Deum Verbum Filium unigenitum; sed dixeruni, inquit, unum se credere Dominum Jesum Christum, consubstantivum Patri, Deum de Deo vero, lumen de lumine, per quem omnia facta sunt; tamquam Deus Verbum apud illum Filius non sit, sicut in superiore ejus sermone apertius declaratur. Quae hujus haec vanitas? Quaeve dementia? Quod ludibrium potius in tam inconstanti sermone, non minus stulto quam impio? Ut Verbum Dei, Dei Filius ei non sit; ut Jesus ei sit ex medietate Dens, ex medietate homo, et idem tamen Verbum Dei Filius esse non possit?","english":"There follows that point of his inestimable folly, in which he claims that the holy council said: \"We believe also in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten, who was born of God the Father, consubstantial, that is, with the Father, who descended for us.\" Jesus, certainly, as he himself wishes, is a man; let it be said, I ask, how is he, either to him or in his view, consubstantial with God the Father, unless as God born of God the Father? Or again, how is he not God, who is from Mary? If he was born in this way, how did the Council of Nicaea understand and declare, and was it content to confess only this word? What then is solid? What sound? What whole in him?\n\nThere follows also another raving of impiety, of him saying that those Fathers omitted to declare that they believed in God the Word, the only-begotten Son; but they said, he asserts, that they believed in one Lord Jesus Christ, consubstantial with the Father, true God from God, light from light, through whom all things were made; as if God the Word is not the Son for him, as is more openly declared in his earlier discourse. What is this vanity of his? What madness? What mockery rather in such an inconstant speech, no less foolish than impious? That the Word of God, the Son of God, is not for him; that Jesus is for him half God, half man, and yet the same Word of God cannot be the Son?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Accedit illud ... Accedit etiam aliud","severity":"info","text":"The passage is structured by two parallel accusations, each introduced by 'Accedit' ('There follows'), marking a rhetorical escalation against Nestorius' misreading of the Nicene Creed.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"consubstantivum","severity":"info","text":"The Latin 'consubstantivum' translates Greek 'homoousios', the key Nicene term for the Son's consubstantiality with the Father. The author insists Nestorius cannot consistently apply it to a merely human Jesus.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Deum de Deo vero, lumen de lumine","severity":"info","text":"This phrase echoes the Nicene Creed's 'Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine', itself rooted in Johannine theology (John 1:1-9) and used to affirm the Son's divine generation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"concilium Nicaenum","severity":"info","text":"The Council of Nicaea (325) defined the Son as 'homoousios' with the Father. The author accuses Nestorius of reducing its confession to a mere verbal formula ('verbo tantum tenus').","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"impietatis deliramentum","severity":"info","text":"The author's vehement language ('raving of impiety', 'vanity', 'madness') reflects the polemical style of Latin anti-Nestorian tracts, likely from the 5th-6th century, framing doctrinal error as irrational.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"in superiore ejus sermone","severity":"caution","text":"The reference to Nestorius' 'earlier discourse' is vague; the author may be citing a lost work or a known passage from Nestorius' writings, but the exact source is not identified in the text.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'in superiore ejus sermone' ('in his earlier discourse') is ambiguous: it could refer to a specific lost writing of Nestorius or to a passage earlier in the same work.","The author's claim that Nestorius denies the Word is the Son may be a polemical distortion; Nestorius' actual position distinguished the divine Word from the human Jesus more sharply than the author allows."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":36,"ref":"p36","source":"Modo sit consubstantivus natusque ex Deo Patre, Deus verus de Deo vero, lumen de lumine: postea vero horum nihil proprium naturaliter habens, sed sola nuncupatione alterius particeps divinae dignitatis, tamquam homo natus ex tempore.\n\nClaudendae sane Christianae aures, cum dicitur Filii nomen non significare Verbum illud Patris, quod ex ipso, et in ipso est. Ad quod testimonium esto, lector, attentus: Misit, inquit, Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere, factum sub tege (Gal. iv, 4); videlicet ut quia natus ex muliere non est Deus, Verbum Filius e(??) non sit, sed alius, qui potuit nasci partu mulieris.\n\nCerte superius illi placuerat Patrum sententia, Jesum Christum Patri Deo consubstantivum esse, Deum de Deo vero, lumen de lumine; et rectissime placuerat: quid illi de Verbo Dei, quod in principio apud Deum erat, et Deus erat, subito iterum visum est, ut Dei Filius non sit? Aut Jesum Christum, qui consubstantialis Deo Patri est, et Deus verus de Deo vero, et lumen de lumine, sicut ei optime placuerat, Patres Nicaeni definiisse concilii, Deum non esse, ut totus, et totum, unus et idem et unum quidquid est, et de illo dicitur, et quo pacto enuntiatur, intelligi debeat et sentiri. Qui tametsi factus est homo, ut Joannes evangelista fidelissimus et veracissimus testis est, quia Verbum caro factum est (Joan. i, 14), et id dubium non est.","english":"Let it be that he is consubstantial and born of God the Father, true God from true God, light from light; but afterwards he naturally has none of these things as his own, but only by title is a participant in divine dignity, like a man born in time.\n\nCertainly Christian ears should be closed when it is said that the name Son does not signify that Word of the Father which is from him and in him. To which testimony, reader, be attentive: \"He sent,\" he says, \"his Son made from a woman, made under the law\" (Gal. 4:4); evidently so that, because one born from a woman is not God, the Word is not the Son, but another who could be born by a woman's childbirth.\n\nCertainly above it had pleased him that the fathers' opinion was that Jesus Christ is consubstantial with God the Father, true God from true God, light from light; and it had pleased him most rightly. What suddenly seemed to him again about the Word of God, which in the beginning was with God and was God, that the Son of God is not? Or that Jesus Christ, who is consubstantial with God the Father, and true God from true God, and light from light, as it had pleased him excellently, the fathers of the Nicene council defined that he is not God, so that entirely and wholly, one and the same and one thing, whatever he is and whatever is said of him, must be understood and felt. Although he was made man, as John the evangelist, the most faithful and truthful witness, testifies, because the Word was made flesh (John 1:14), and this is not in doubt.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"consubstantivus","severity":"info","text":"The author uses 'consubstantivus' (consubstantial) to echo the Nicene Creed's 'homoousios', but immediately subverts it by claiming Nestorius denies this property to Christ after the incarnation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Gal. iv, 4","severity":"info","text":"The citation 'Misit Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere, factum sub lege' is a loose paraphrase of Galatians 4:4, which in the Vulgate reads 'Misit Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere, factum sub lege' (Gal. 4:4). The author uses it to argue that Nestorius distinguishes the Son from the Word.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Joan. i, 14","severity":"info","text":"The reference 'Verbum caro factum est' (John 1:14) is a variant of John 1:14 in the Vulgate, which reads 'Et Verbum caro factum est'. The author cites it to affirm the incarnation of the Word against Nestorian division.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Nicaeni concilii","severity":"info","text":"The 'Patres Nicaeni concilii' refers to the First Council of Nicaea (325), which defined Christ as 'homoousios' (consubstantial) with the Father. The author accuses Nestorius of contradicting this definition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Modo ... postea vero","severity":"info","text":"The contrast 'Modo ... postea vero' (Let it be that ... but afterwards) structures the argument: the author grants Nestorius's initial acceptance of Nicene terms, then highlights his subsequent denial of their natural possession by Christ.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"e(??)","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text has 'e(??)' in 'Verbum Filius e(??) non sit', likely a scribal corruption or abbreviation. The English draft reads 'the Word is not the Son', but the original may have had 'eius' (his) or 'etiam' (also).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'e(??)' in 'Verbum Filius e(??) non sit' is unclear; it may be a corruption of 'eius' or 'etiam'.","The citation 'Gal. iv, 4' is a loose paraphrase; the exact Vulgate verse is Galatians 4:4 but the wording differs slightly."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":37,"ref":"p37","source":"Non est negandum quod hic ficte erubescit, factum esse sub lege, et in se universa suscepisse, quae tamquam homo factus gerere debuit: sed sic non est negandum, immo totis viribus confitendum, ut manente apud eum Deitatis impassibili ex omni parte natura, suscepta ab eo ista esse credantur.\n\nQuis autem etiam hoc ejus aliud deliramentum aequo animo ferat, quo ait Christum Jesum suum ipsius Dominum esse? Cujus verba sunt ista: Hoc autem dico, inquit, ut noveritis quam superexcellens et summa quaedam conjunctio existebat, etiam in infante ipso, cum Dominica caro conspiceretur; erat enim ipse et infans et infantis Dominus. Quis umquam sui esse dominus dictus est? Sed hic cura vult et conatur quartam introducere in sancta Trinitate personam, atque substantiam, mirae stoliditatis est, et impietatis maculis inquinatus.\n\nQuartum quoque tractatum ejus, qui in isto codice continetur, diligentius et sollicitius considerandum admonemus, cujus initium istud est: Dulcem nobis praecedens doctor mensam charitatis apposuit, etc. Ad cujus loca pervidenda, quae hic exponere curavimus, signa labyrinthorum (id est. asteriscorum] apposita lector inveniet.","english":"It is not to be denied—though he feigns blushing at it—that he was made subject to the law, and took upon himself in his own person all that, as a man made, he was bound to bear. But this is not to be denied; on the contrary, it is to be confessed with all one’s might, so that, while the impassible nature of his divinity remains intact in every respect, these things taken on by him are believed to have been assumed.\n\nBut who, moreover, could calmly endure this other raving of his, in which he says that Christ Jesus is his own Lord? These are his words: “But I say this,” he says, “that you may know how preeminent and supreme a certain union existed, even in the infant himself, when the Lord’s flesh was seen; for he was both infant and Lord of the infant.” Who was ever said to be lord of himself? But he who here wishes and attempts to introduce a fourth person and substance into the holy Trinity is of astonishing stupidity and stained with the blemishes of impiety.\n\nWe also warn that his fourth treatise, which is contained in this codex, is to be considered more diligently and carefully; its beginning is this: “The preceding doctor set before us a sweet table of charity,” etc. At the places in it which we have taken care to expound here, the reader will find signs of labyrinths (that is, asterisks) placed.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"Non est negandum","severity":"info","text":"The author insists that Christ's subjection to the law and assumption of human burdens must be affirmed, while preserving the impassibility of his divine nature.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"suum ipsius Dominum","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'his own Lord' is a key Nestorian claim, implying a distinction between the divine and human in Christ that the author sees as introducing a fourth person into the Trinity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"quartam introducere in sancta Trinitate personam","severity":"info","text":"The accusation of introducing a fourth person into the Trinity is a standard anti-Nestorian charge, reflecting the concern that Nestorius' Christology separates Christ's humanity from the divine Logos.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Quartum quoque tractatum","severity":"info","text":"The author refers to a fourth treatise by Nestorius, beginning with 'Dulcem nobis praecedens doctor mensam charitatis apposuit,' and notes that asterisks mark passages he has expounded.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"signa labyrinthorum (id est. asteriscorum]","severity":"info","text":"The parenthetical gloss 'id est. asteriscorum' clarifies that 'signa labyrinthorum' means asterisks, indicating a textual marker used by the author to flag passages for commentary.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"hic ficte erubescit","severity":"caution","text":"The phrase 'ficte erubescit' (feigns blushing) is a rhetorical accusation of insincerity; the author's interpretation of Nestorius' intent may be polemically exaggerated.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of the 'fourth treatise' and its exact content are not specified; the author assumes the reader has access to the codex.","The phrase 'suum ipsius Dominum' could be read as a logical paradox or a rhetorical flourish, but the author treats it as a doctrinal error."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":38,"ref":"p38","source":"Ibi namque inter Samosatenum Paulum et Photinum, magistros suos (purgare se studens, tamquam ab eorum doctrina alienus), differentia quae sit molitus ostendere est, atque (??)ia ait: Paulus quidem in eo quod dicit Christum hominem solum, et tunc initium habere, ex quo de Virgine natus est, etc. Quod totum impietatis malum a Photini ab Ebione magis stoico philosopho tractum est.\n\nHic tempore adhuc Joannis apostoli intra Asiam exstitit, et Christum hominem communem ex Joseph et Maria natum, et eum vitae merito omne humanum genus praeivisse, proque hoc in Dei Filium adoptatum, ausus est praedicare, asserens se Matthaei, Marci et Lucae evangelistarum auctoritatem secutum. Quo tempore Joannes apostolus contra hunc condidit evangelium, quo praefatus ait, in principio esse Verbum, et Verbum esse apud Patrem, et Deum esse Verbum (Joan, i, 1). Postquam praefationem subdescendens, ut ostenderet quem illi tres Evangelistae hominem scripserant, esse etiam Deum ait: Quod factum est in illo, vita est (Ibid., 4). Et post pauca: Et Verbum caro factum est (Ibid., 14).","english":"For there, between Paul of Samosata and Photinus, his teachers (while striving to clear himself, as if foreign to their teaching), he has labored to show what difference there is, and says: Paul indeed, in that he says Christ is only a man, and that he had his beginning from the time he was born of the Virgin, etc. All that evil of impiety was drawn from Photinus, from Ebion, and more from the Stoic philosopher.\n\nAt that time, still within the lifetime of the apostle John in Asia, he arose, and dared to preach that Christ was a common man born of Joseph and Mary, and that he surpassed the whole human race by the merit of his life, and for this was adopted as the Son of God, asserting that he followed the authority of the evangelists Matthew, Mark, and Luke. At which time the apostle John composed his gospel against this man, in which he said in the preface, that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with the Father, and the Word was God (John 1:1). After the preface, descending, to show that the man whom those three evangelists had written was also God, he says: That which was made in him is life (John 1:4). And after a little: And the Word was made flesh (John 1:14).","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"Paul of Samosata (3rd c.) and Photinus (4th c.) were both condemned as adoptionists, teaching that Christ was a mere man adopted as Son of God. The author links Nestorius to these heresies to discredit him.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Joan, i, 1; 4; 14","severity":"info","text":"The passage cites John 1:1, 1:4, and 1:14 (Vulgate numbering) to argue that John’s Gospel was written to refute adoptionist Christology by affirming the Word’s divinity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The reference to Ebion (Ebionites) and a Stoic philosopher reflects early Christian polemic that conflated Jewish-Christian adoptionism with Stoic materialism, though the specific Stoic is not named.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The passage shifts from a summary of Nestorius’s defense to a historical excursus on the origin of adoptionist heresy and John’s Gospel, serving as a narrative proof that orthodoxy predates heresy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin phrase 'atque (??)ia ait' contains a lacuna or illegible word; the edition marks it with '(??)', leaving the precise verb or noun uncertain.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The author places the heretic (likely Ebion or Cerinthus) within the lifetime of John the Apostle in Asia, anachronistically linking 2nd-century figures to 1st-century apostolic witness.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of the 'Stoic philosopher' is not specified; the text may conflate Ebion with a Stoic source or refer to a known figure like Epictetus or Seneca.","The phrase 'atque (??)ia ait' is corrupt; the missing word may be a name or a verb like 'dicit' or 'inquit'."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","ref":"John 1:1","text":"The English carries the scriptural phrase “in the beginning was the word”, which matches John 1:1. The match is on the English draft; check the Coptic before quoting the verse."}]},{"i":39,"ref":"p39","source":"Hunc itaque Ebionem philosophum secutus Marcellus Galata est; Photinus quoque, et ultimis temporibus Sardicensis Bonosus, qui a Damaso urbis Romae episcopo praedamnatus est.\n\nPaulus autem Samosatenus, qui fuit Antiochiae episcopus temporibus Aureliani principis, verum est quidem, quod Christum communiter, ut caeteri, natum hominem ex utroque parente definit; Verbum autem Dei Patris, non substantivum, sed prolativum, vel imperativum sensit, atque pronuntiavit, non ut fides habet catholica, Verbum in substantia, vel essentia consubstantivum, id est, Filium Dei Patris.\n\nPhotinus autem insanissimo Nestorio parem sententiam tenuit, Verbum Dei quidem non negans esse in substantia; sed hoc extrinsecus in isto, qui ex Maria more communi conjogum natus est, Jesu inhabitasse peculiariter, et omnia illa per hunc fecisse in terris miracula, quae in Evangeliis legimus. - vero, quod hic insanissimus dicit, nesciens quid loquatur Praxeas primus, inde post non multum Montanus, cum sua Prisca et Maximilla pronuntiant.","english":"This Ebion, then, as a philosopher, Marcellus of Galatia followed; also Photinus, and in recent times Bonosus of Sardica, who was condemned beforehand by Damasus, bishop of the city of Rome.\n\nPaul of Samosata, however, who was bishop of Antioch in the time of the emperor Aurelian, indeed defines Christ in common with others as a man born from both parents; but he understood and declared the Word of God the Father not as substantial, but as proffered or imperative, not as the catholic faith holds, the Word as consubstantial in substance or essence, that is, the Son of God the Father.\n\nPhotinus, however, held a view equal to the most insane Nestorius, not indeed denying that the Word of God exists in substance; but that this Word dwelt peculiarly from outside in that Jesus, who was born from Mary in the common manner of conjugal union, and performed through him all those miracles on earth which we read in the Gospels. — Truly, what this most insane man says, not knowing what he speaks, Praxeas first, and then not long after Montanus, with his Prisca and Maximilla, declare.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"Bonosus Sardicensis","severity":"info","text":"Bonosus of Sardica was condemned by Pope Damasus I (366–384) for denying the perpetual virginity of Mary, a heresy linked to the broader Christological debates of the late 4th century.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Verbum prolativum vel imperativum","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'prolativum vel imperativum' describes Paul of Samosata's view of the Word as a spoken or commanded utterance, not a substantial hypostasis, contrasting with Nicene 'consubstantial'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"Praxeas","severity":"info","text":"Praxeas was a 2nd–3rd century figure associated with modalist monarchianism, accused by Tertullian of patripassianism; the text links him to Photinus' alleged error.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Montanus cum sua Prisca et Maximilla","severity":"info","text":"Montanus, Prisca, and Maximilla are leaders of the 2nd-century Montanist movement; the text anachronistically associates them with Photinus' Christology, likely as a rhetorical slur.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Hunc itaque Ebionem...","severity":"info","text":"This passage continues the narrative of heretical genealogies, linking Ebion, Marcellus, Photinus, and Bonosus, then contrasting Paul of Samosata and Photinus with Nestorius.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Photinus autem insanissimo Nestorio parem sententiam tenuit","severity":"caution","text":"The claim that Photinus held a view equal to Nestorius is historically dubious; Photinus was a 4th-century modalist, while Nestorius (5th century) held a dyophysite Christology.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'conjugum' (conjugal union) is ambiguous: it may refer to the marriage of Mary and Joseph, or to a generic human union; the translation takes it as 'conjugal union'.","The phrase 'ultimis temporibus' is vague: it likely means 'in recent times' relative to the author, but the exact date is uncertain."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":40,"ref":"p40","source":"a Post haec autem Sabellius et Marcellus, tempore quo impiissimus Arius exstitit, monarchiam se in Divinitatis substantia retinere debere putantes, nefando errore decepti, ausi sunt Deum Patrem ipsum sibi Filium, ipsum sibi esse Patrem, ipsum sibi esse Spiritum sanctum, ipsum incarnatum, passum, crucifixum, ipsum a Judaeis omnia pertulisse, resurrexisse a mortuis, et omnia peregisse, quae nos per Christum in persona propria ejus, pro humani generis salute, gestasse credimus et confitemur.\n\nDifferentia itaque inter Samosatenum et Photinum, ista sola est, qua Paulus Verbum Dei, id est, prolativum et potestatis effectivum Verbum sensit, non substantivum, quod Graeci, dicunt. Photinus autem Nestorii magister Verbum quidem hoc Dei esse in substantia negat, sed esse id Dei Filium non vult; habitasse vero peculiariter, vel adhaesisse Christo Jesu de Joseph et Maria nato, nec quidquam hunc plus fuisse quam hominem, cum impietate delirat, qui omnes omnino homines vitae merito antevenerit.","english":"After these events, however, Sabellius and Marcellus, at the time when the most impious Arius arose, thinking that they ought to retain the monarchy in the substance of the Divinity, deceived by a nefarious error, dared to assert that God the Father Himself is the Son to Himself, Himself is the Father to Himself, Himself is the Holy Spirit to Himself, that He Himself became incarnate, suffered, was crucified, that He Himself endured everything from the Jews, rose from the dead, and accomplished everything which we believe and confess that Christ, in His own person, bore for the salvation of the human race.\n\nThe difference, therefore, between the Samosatene and Photinus is only this: that Paul understood the Word of God, that is, a proclamatory and effectual Word of power, not a substantial one, which the Greeks call λόγος οὐσιώδης. Photinus, however, the teacher of Nestorius, denies that this Word of God exists in substance, but does not wish it to be the Son of God; rather, he raves with impiety that it dwelt particularly, or adhered to, Christ Jesus born of Joseph and Mary, and that this one was nothing more than a man, who surpassed all men entirely by the merit of his life.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Sabellius et Marcellus","severity":"info","text":"Sabellius (3rd c.) and Marcellus of Ancyra (4th c.) were both accused of modalism, the view that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are modes of one divine subject. The author links them to Arius chronologically, though Marcellus was active after Arius.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"monarchiam","severity":"info","text":"Monarchia (Greek μοναρχία) here denotes the single ruling principle in the Godhead. The author accuses Sabellius and Marcellus of wrongly retaining this to the point of denying real distinction among the persons.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"prolativum et potestatis effectivum Verbum","severity":"info","text":"The author distinguishes Paul of Samosata’s view of the Word as ‘proclamatory and effectual in power’ (λόγος προφορικός) from the orthodox ‘substantial Word’ (λόγος οὐσιώδης). This reflects a known theological contrast between internal and uttered reason.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Photinus autem Nestorii magister","severity":"info","text":"The author anachronistically calls Photinus the teacher of Nestorius. Historically, Photinus (4th c.) was a disciple of Marcellus, while Nestorius (5th c.) was influenced by Antiochene theology, not directly by Photinus. This link is polemical.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Differentia itaque inter Samosatenum et Photinum","severity":"info","text":"This sentence marks a shift from narrative to doctrinal comparison. The author isolates the difference between Paul of Samosata and Photinus, then contrasts both with the orthodox view of Christ’s person.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Photinus autem Nestorii magister","severity":"caution","text":"The claim that Photinus was Nestorius’s teacher is historically inaccurate and likely a rhetorical device to taint Nestorius by association. The reader should not take this as a factual genealogy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'prolativum et potestatis effectivum Verbum' is a translation of Greek λόγος προφορικός, but the precise nuance of 'effectivum' (effectual or productive) is debated. The author uses it to deny the Word’s substantial existence.","The phrase 'Verbum quidem hoc Dei esse in substantia negat' is ambiguous: it could mean Photinus denies the Word exists substantially, or denies it is of God’s substance. The translation takes the former."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":41,"ref":"p41","source":"Photinum Romana Ecclesia, et participes hujusmodi pravitatis Homuncionitas nominat: Sabellianos vero cum antiquioribus similibus eorum, Patripassianos appellat; quia, ut dictum est, ipsum Patrem ipsum Filium sentiunt nomine unionis, qui aliquando Pater, aliquando Filias, unus atque idem ipse sit sibi, etiam Spiritus.\n\ne Nestorius sane a Photino auctore suo in id tantum dissentit, quod ex Virgine Maria Christum asserit natum; in reliquis vero omnibus totus ipsius sequax, signifer, antesignanus est, et in id maxime, quod supra memoratum est, Dei Verbum Dei Filium non esse, nec dici debere, nec ullum, nisi Jesum ex Maria natum, Filium Dei dicendum, qui templum habitantis in se factus, ex indivisa inter se et Verbi Dei, societate et conjunctione hoc dici meruit, non tamen esse natura Filium Dei, ut qui ex hac unione Divinitatis privilegia consecutus sit, non ea habens natura, sed gratia.","english":"to call Photinus the Roman Church, and the partakers of such depravity, Homuncionitae; but it calls the Sabellians, together with their more ancient like-minded, Patripassians; because, as has been said, they hold that the Father Himself and the Son Himself are one and the same by reason of the union of name, who at one time is Father, at another time Son, one and the same being to Himself, and also the Spirit.\n\nNow Nestorius, to be sure, differs from his author Photinus only in this, that he asserts Christ was born from the Virgin Mary; in all other respects, however, he is entirely his follower, standard-bearer, and vanguard, and especially in that which was mentioned above, that the Word of God is not the Son of God, nor ought to be called so, and that no one except Jesus born from Mary is to be called the Son of God, who, having become a temple of the one dwelling in him, from the undivided association and conjunction between himself and the Word of God, merited to be so called, yet is not by nature the Son of God, as one who has obtained the privileges of the Divinity from this union, not possessing them by nature, but by grace.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Homuncionitas","severity":"info","text":"The Latin term 'Homuncionitas' (from 'homuncio', 'little man') is a pejorative label for Photinians, emphasizing their denial of Christ's divinity by reducing him to a mere man.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Patripassianos","severity":"info","text":"'Patripassians' (from Latin 'pater', 'father', and 'passio', 'suffering') refers to those who held that the Father suffered, a charge against Sabellians and Marcellans.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Photinus","severity":"info","text":"Photinus of Sirmium (4th century) taught a form of adoptionist monarchianism, denying the pre-existence of Christ as divine Logos; the author here links Nestorius to Photinus to tar him as a heretic.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Nestorius sane a Photino auctore suo","severity":"info","text":"The author structures the argument by aligning Nestorius with Photinus, claiming Nestorius differs only on Christ's birth from Mary, while otherwise following Photinus entirely.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"templum habitantis in se factus","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'temple of the one dwelling in him' echoes Nestorius's own Christological language (the 'temple' model), which the author here reinterprets as implying Christ is not Son by nature but by grace.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"Filias","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text reads 'Filias' (accusative plural) where 'Filius' (nominative singular) is expected; this may be a scribal error or a non-classical form, but the sense is clear: 'at another time Son'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'Filias' is likely a scribal error for 'Filius'.","The phrase 'ex indivisa inter se et Verbi Dei societate' is syntactically compressed; the translation 'from the undivided association between himself and the Word of God' is adopted."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":42,"ref":"p42","source":"Quod ejus impietatis genus non hic in isto capitulo, sed in aliis scriptis, in isto tamen codice insertis, et tractatibus continetur et legitur. Et inde est quod catholicus, qui legit, cautus esse debet de varietate et inconstantia, quam utrum astutia, an vecordia ad alliciendum auditorem habeat, non est facile nosse: quovis tamen pacto, constat eum varium esse, sibique contrarium. Quis autem non agnoscat hujusmodi hominem, aut tamquam astutum captatorem esse fugiendum; aut tamquam excordem, utpote sibi adversantem, et ex varietate confusum, nullo modo esse sequendum?\n\nIn illis sane duodecim capitulis, quibus ad hunc ipsum Nestorium sanctus episcopus Cyrillus scribens, rectam et sanam exposuit fidem, et hic a contrario singulis eis respondendo, contradicendum putavit, secundum ejus contradictionis capitulum retractandum est. Ibi namque ita ait: Si quis in Verbi Dei conjunctione, quae ad carnem facta est, de loco in locum commutationem, sive conversionem divinae substantioe dixerit esse factam, ejusque divinae naturae carnem capacem dixerit, aut partialiter unitam Divinitatem carni; aut iterum in infinitum incircumscriptam cum divi(??)a natura coextenderit carnem ad capiendum Deum, eumdemque ipsum natura, et Deum dicut et ho(??)ent; mathema sit.","english":"That this kind of impiety is not contained and read in this particular chapter, but in other writings inserted in this same codex, and in treatises. And hence it is that the Catholic who reads must be cautious about the variety and inconsistency, whether it proceeds from cunning or from folly to entice the hearer, is not easy to know; yet in any case, it is evident that he is variable and contrary to himself. Who, moreover, would not recognize such a man, either as a cunning trapper to be fled, or as a senseless one, as being opposed to himself and confused by variety, in no way to be followed?\n\nIn those same twelve chapters, by which the holy bishop Cyril, writing to this same Nestorius, set forth the right and sound faith, and here, by responding to each of them on the contrary, he thought to contradict, according to the second chapter of his contradiction, it must be reconsidered. For there it says thus: If anyone says that in the conjunction of the Word of God with flesh, a change from place to place or a conversion of the divine substance took place, and that the flesh was capable of the divine nature, or that the Divinity was partially united to the flesh; or again, that he coextended the flesh with the infinite and uncircumscribed divine nature to contain God, and that he calls the same both God and man by nature—let him be anathema.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Quod ejus impietatis genus non hic in isto capitulo, sed in aliis scriptis, in isto tamen codice insertis, et tractatibus continetur et legitur.","severity":"info","text":"The author distinguishes between the current chapter and other writings in the same codex, indicating a composite structure where Nestorius's impiety is found across multiple texts.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"In illis sane duodecim capitulis, quibus ad hunc ipsum Nestorium sanctus episcopus Cyrillus scribens, rectam et sanam exposuit fidem","severity":"info","text":"Cyril of Alexandria's twelve chapters against Nestorius are referenced as the orthodox standard; the author here responds to Nestorius's counter-chapters.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"astutia, an vecordia","severity":"info","text":"The author questions whether Nestorius's inconsistency stems from cunning (astutia) or folly (vecordia), reflecting a rhetorical topos of heresiological polemic.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Si quis in Verbi Dei conjunctione, quae ad carnem facta est, de loco in locum commutationem, sive conversionem divinae substantioe dixerit esse factam","severity":"info","text":"This echoes the language of Cyril's anathemas, which draw on Nicene concerns about divine substance and incarnation, though no specific verse is quoted.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"divi(??)a natura","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text has a lacuna or corruption at 'divi(??)a', likely intended as 'divina' (divine). The English draft reads 'divine nature'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"mathema sit","severity":"info","text":"The Greek-derived 'mathema' (anathema) is used in Latin, reflecting the conciliar and patristic formula of Cyril's anathemas, which were received in Latin tradition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'divi(??)a natura' is corrupt; the intended reading is likely 'divina natura'.","The referent of 'ejus impietatis genus' is ambiguous: it may refer to Nestorius's impiety or to a specific heresy mentioned earlier."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":43,"ref":"p43","source":"Quasi quisquam similis ei insanus ipsos saltem angelos non cogitet, qui, sieut scriptum est, igniti sunt spiritus; dictum est enim de eis: Qui facit angelos suos spiritus, et ministros suos flammam urentem. (Psal. ciii, 4).\n\na Angelos ergo, quos frequenter et diversis temperib(??)s ad sanctos quosque missos esse, sicut legimus, credimus quoque, ut bis ad quos missi sunt posse(??) esse visibiles, humanum habitum gessisse, sumpti(??) corporibus, certum est. Sed utrum tantum corpora a(??) his suscepta sint in quibus illi spiritus pro tempore habitando animarum rationalium ministerium impleverint; an animata, corpora, vatum more, extrinsecus inspiraverint, non est facile et temere horum aliquid affirmandum.\n\nQuae praesumpta interta tamquam certa, (??) Scripturis minime expressa opinio, Apollinarem Laodicenum, et postea Arianes (b non autem ipsum Arium), et Eunonium quoque, et ul(??)mum Macedonium forte decepit, ut hinc sentirent et pronuntiarent Christum Dei Filium corpus tantum hominis, non etiam animam suscepisse, pre anima autem Dei Filium Verbum Patris in illo suscepto corpore Itabitasse.","english":"As if any madman like him would not at least think of the angels themselves, who, as it is written, are fiery spirits; for it is said of them: \"Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a burning flame\" (Ps. 103:4).\n\nTherefore, that angels, whom we read and also believe have been frequently and at various times sent to various saints, so that they could be visible to those to whom they were sent, have assumed human form, having taken up bodies, is certain. But whether only bodies were assumed by them in which those spirits, dwelling for a time, fulfilled the ministry of rational souls, or whether they inspired animated bodies from without, in the manner of prophets, it is not easy and rash to affirm either of these.\n\nThis presumptuous and uncertain opinion, treated as if certain, and minimally expressed in the Scriptures, deceived Apollinaris of Laodicea, and later the Arians (but not Arius himself), and also Eunomius, and finally perhaps Macedonius, so that they felt and declared that Christ the Son of God assumed only the body of a man, and not also a soul, but that the Son of God the Word of the Father dwelt in that assumed body instead of a soul.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Psal. ciii, 4","severity":"info","text":"The citation 'Psal. ciii, 4' corresponds to Psalm 103:4 in the Vulgate, which reads 'qui facit angelos suos spiritus et ministros suos flammam urentem' (Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a burning flame).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Apollinarem Laodicenum","severity":"info","text":"Apollinaris of Laodicea (c. 310–390) taught that Christ had a human body but no human soul, the Logos replacing it. This Christological view was condemned at the First Council of Constantinople (381).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Arianes (b non autem ipsum Arium)","severity":"info","text":"The text distinguishes later Arians from Arius himself, likely referring to Anomoean or Eunomian sub-groups who radicalized Arian subordinationism, though the author's claim that Arius did not hold this view is historically debated.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Eunonium","severity":"info","text":"Eunomius (d. c. 393) was a leading Anomoean theologian who argued that the Son is unlike the Father in essence, and he also denied Christ's human soul, consistent with the Apollinarian tendency noted here.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Macedonium","severity":"info","text":"Macedonius I of Constantinople (d. after 360) was associated with the Pneumatomachians, who denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit. The text suggests he may have been influenced by Apollinarian Christology, though this is not a standard claim.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"temperib(??)s","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin 'temperib(??)s' is corrupt; the intended word is likely 'temporibus' (times), as reflected in the English draft's 'various times'. The reading is conjectural.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin text has several lacunae or corruptions (e.g., 'temperib(??)s', 'posse(??)', 'sumpti(??)', 'a(??)', 'ul(??)mum'), which the English draft resolves by conjecture. The phrase 'b non autem ipsum Arium' is parenthetical and its exact placement in the manuscript is uncertain."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[]},{"i":44,"ref":"p44","source":"Quod si ita est, stulto vere sensus sui errore decepti sunt; illa enim Salvatoris humana susceptio, longe et ultra quam longe aestimari potest, ab ista angelorum (??)comparabilis invenitur; quia enim haec pro redemptione totius humani generis futura erat, oportebat a Salvatore totam et integram, quae salvanda erat, ac in coelum sublevanda cum ipso, et inseparabilis in vita aeterna mansura, totam, inquam, oportehat ab eo humanam gestari naturam. Haec autem angelorum pro tempore corporalis assumptio, ad exhibendum officium divinitus imperatum, quocumque modo de duobus facta fuerit, id est, utrum animata, an sine animis corpora habuisse dicantur, in nullo fides catholica laeditur.\n\nQuamvis postea Apollinaris in pejus velut emendans, animam quidem fuisse in Christo confessus est, rationem autem seu mentem in ea heminis non fuisse, sed pro ea Deum Dei Filium exstitisse cum impietate deliravit.","english":"If this is so, they are truly deceived by the error of their own foolish understanding; for that human assumption of the Savior is found to be incomparably far, and farther than can be estimated, from that of the angels. Because this was to be for the redemption of the whole human race, it was necessary that the Savior should bear the whole and entire human nature, which was to be saved and raised up to heaven with him, and was to remain inseparable in eternal life—the whole, I say, it was necessary for him to bear. But this temporal corporeal assumption of the angels, for the purpose of performing a divinely commanded office, whether it was done in one of two ways—that is, whether they are said to have had animate or inanimate bodies—in no way harms the Catholic faith.\n\nAlthough later Apollinaris, as if correcting for the worse, confessed that there was a soul in Christ, he raved with impiety that reason or mind was not in that human soul, but that the Son of God stood in its place.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The passage shifts from a refutation of angelic comparison to a doctrinal clarification, then appends a historical note on Apollinaris, marking a structural transition from argument to supplementary heresiological comment.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"humana susceptio","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'humana susceptio' (human assumption) is a technical term for Christ's assumption of human nature, central to anti-Nestorian polemic, emphasizing the unique and complete nature of the Incarnation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Apollinaris","severity":"info","text":"Apollinaris of Laodicea (4th century) taught that Christ had a human body and soul but no human mind, replaced by the divine Logos. This view was condemned as heretical, and the author here dismisses it as a worse correction.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The reference to Apollinaris shows the author engaging with later Christological debates, indicating the treatise's reception context in post-Nestorian controversies where Apollinarianism was also a target.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"angelorum (??)comparabilis","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text has a lacuna or uncertain reading at 'angelorum (??)comparabilis'; the English renders it as 'incomparably far', but the original may have read 'incomparabilis' or a similar term, affecting the precise sense.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The exact reading of 'angelorum (??)comparabilis' is uncertain; the translation assumes 'incomparabilis' (incomparable), but the manuscript may have a different adverb or adjective.","The phrase 'utrum animata, an sine animis corpora habuisse dicantur' leaves open whether the author endorses either view of angelic bodies; the text only asserts that neither harms the faith."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":45,"ref":"p45","source":"Tot ergo et toties, ut diximus, variis temporibus angeli, sive corporibus tantum sumptis, sive etiam animatis eis susceptis, numquid commutati et versi ex illa spiritali et angelica sua natura, corporei, vel etiam animales, facti esse umquam a quoquam dici vel credi potuerunt? Non utique; quid ergo ad effundendas nebulas imperitis hic insanus magister molitur ingerere? Ita ut si quis dixerit Filium Dei Deum Verbum, secundum Evangelium carnem factum, seu hominem factum, statim tamquam impiissimus, Divinitatem in carnem versam esse pronuntians, arguatur.\n\nIllud autem quod in ipso isto capitulo ultimum posuit quam impium, quamque vanum sit, videamus. Ait igitur Eumdemque ipsum si quis natura et Deam et hominem dixerit, anathema sit. Volens duplicem Christum introducere, vel incongrue sapere, quid dixerit, ignoravit. Non enim vidit statim objici sibi posse, neque Deum illum, neque hominem natura esse dixisse; quia idem ipse Christus, cum sit Deus et homo, immo, ut signatius dicator et cautius, cum sit homo Deus, et Deus homo, non sit, nisi natura. Si, ut ei visum est, natura non est (quod in ipsius caput tale dictum et tam impium convertatur), nec aliquid potest esse, quia quod natura non potest esse, prorsus esse nihil potest.","english":"Therefore, as we have said, so many times and on so many occasions, have angels, whether by taking on bodies alone or even by assuming animated ones, ever been said or believed by anyone to have been changed and transformed from their spiritual and angelic nature into corporeal or even animate beings? Certainly not. So what is this insane teacher trying to thrust upon the ignorant, to cast clouds of confusion? Thus, if anyone says that the Son of God, God the Word, according to the Gospel, became flesh or became man, he is immediately accused as most impious, as if he were declaring that the Divinity was turned into flesh.\n\nLet us now see how impious and how vain is that which he placed last in this very chapter. He says, therefore: \"If anyone says that the same one is by nature both God and man, let him be anathema.\" Wishing to introduce a double Christ, or to think incongruously, he did not know what he said. For he did not see that it could immediately be objected to him that he said that Christ is neither God nor man by nature; because the same Christ, since he is God and man—or rather, to speak more precisely and cautiously, since he is man God and God man—is not except by nature. If, as it seemed to him, he is not by nature (may such a statement and such impiety be turned back upon his own head), then he cannot be anything at all, because what cannot be by nature can be nothing whatsoever.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The passage concludes the work by refuting the final anathema of Nestorius, which denies that Christ is by nature both God and man. The author turns the charge of impiety back on Nestorius.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"natura","severity":"info","text":"The Latin 'natura' (nature) is central: the author insists that Christ's being both God and man is a matter of nature, not mere association. Nestorius's denial is thus self-refuting.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The author argues that if Christ is not God and man by nature, he cannot exist at all, since nothing exists outside its nature. This is a logical reduction of Nestorius's position.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The final anathema of Nestorius (if anyone says the same one is by nature both God and man, anathema) is a standard target in anti-Nestorian polemic, as it appears to deny the unity of Christ.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'homo Deus, et Deus homo' (man God, and God man) is a precise formulation used in later Latin Christology to express the hypostatic union without confusion of natures.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The Latin 'capitulum' may refer to a chapter of Nestorius's work or a section of the present treatise; the reading taken is that it refers to Nestorius's own chapter."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]}]}