A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

553arrived. Cyril and Memnon, who had undertaken to bring aboutthe condemnation and deposition of Nestorius, forced throughtheir programme. On June 26 or 27 the Antiochians arrived, and,under the presidency of John of Antioch, and with the approval ofthe imperial commissioner, they held a council attended by aboutfifty bishops, while two hundred attended the rival council underCyril. This smaller council deposed Cyril and Memnon. Bothsynods appealed to the Emperor and were confirmed by him. Butshortly after Cyril and Memnon were restored. The Antiochiansnow violently attacked the successful Alexandrians but, havingabandoned Nestorius, patched up a union with the Alexandrians,by which Cyril subscribed in 433 to a creed drawn up by theAntiochians, probably by Theodoret of Cyrus. Accordingly, thecouncil of Cyril was now recognized by the Antiochians, as wellas by the imperial authority, and became known as the Councilof Ephesus, A. D. 431. [505]Additional source material: Socrates, Hist. Ec., VII, 29-34;Theodoret, Epistulæ in PNF, ser. II, vol. III, and his counterpropositions to the Anathemas of Cyril, ibid., pp. 27-31;Percival, The Seven Ecumenical Councils (PNF).(a) Cyril of Alexandria, Anathematisms. Hahn, § 219.Condemnation of the position of Nestorius.Cyril held a council at Alexandria in 430, in which he setforth the teaching of Nestorius, as he understood it, in theform of anathemas against any who held the opinions whichhe set forth in order. Nestorius immediately replied bycorresponding anathematisms. They may be found translatedPNF, ser. II, vol. XIV, p. 206, where they are placedalongside of Cyril's. In the meantime, Celestine of Rome hadcalled upon Nestorius to retract, though as a matter of factthe Nestorian or Antiochian position was more in harmony