Against the Nestorians

Contra Nestorianos · John of Damascus · 8th century (before 749) · treatise · CPG 8053

Greek · domain: later-byzantine · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

Checked 2026-11-13. The CPG number is given in the title of a 2024 article that studies the work's sources: 'John of Damascus Rewriting Cyril of Alexandria: The Neglected Source of Contra Nestorianos (CPG 8053)', Revista de Estudios Bizantinos 12 (2024), https://doi.org/10.37536/ebizantinos.2024.12.2739. The Greek is printed in PG 94 (OCR carries 'contra nestorianos': https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_94). HOLLIS 'John of Damascus Contra Nestorianos' returns only a 1611 Latin edition (Christonymus, Augustae Vindelicorum) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,John%20of%20Damascus%20Contra%20Nestorianos&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 no English translation is recorded, and the work is absent from FOTC 37 and the Popular Patristics list.

Christological treatise against Nestorianism, drawing heavily on Cyril of Alexandria; the 2024 study argues it is a deliberate rewriting of Cyril rather than a mere compilation.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: John of Damascus "Against the Nestorians" — 1 record(s); match basis author_title.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_1860_94
• https://doi.org/10.37536/ebizantinos.2024.12.2739
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Patristics_Series
• HOLLIS search — John of Damascus Contra Nestorianos

Cite: Tergwame, “Against the Nestorians” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-john-damascus-contra-nestorianos