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556 A Source Book for Ancient Church Historyonly a dwelling for the Divinity; and shall not rather confess thatthat flesh is life-giving, as we say, because it has been made thepossession of the Word who is able to give life to all; let him beanathema.XII. If any one shall not confess that the Word of God sufferedin the flesh, and that He was crucified in the flesh, and thatlikewise He tasted death in the flesh, and that He is become thefirst-born from the dead [Col. 1:18], for as God He is the life andlife-giving; let him be anathema.(b) Council of Ephesus, A. D. 431. Condemnation of Nestorius.Mansi, IV, 1211.The text may also be found in Hefele, § 134, under the FirstSession of the Council.[508]The holy synod says: Since in addition to other things the impiousNestorius has not obeyed our Citation and did not receivethe most holy and God-fearing bishops who were sent to himby us, we were compelled to proceed to the examination of hisimpieties. And, discovering from his letters and treatises andfrom the discourses recently delivered by him in this metropolis,which have been testified to, that he has held and publishedimpious doctrines, and being compelled thereto by the canonsand by the letter of our most holy father and fellow-servantCelestine, the Roman bishop, we have come, with many tears,to this sorrowful sentence against him: Our Lord Jesus Christwhom he has blasphemed, decrees through the present most holysynod that Nestorius be excluded from the episcopal dignity andfrom all priestly communion.(c) Council of Ephesus, A. D. 431, Ep. ad Celestinum. Mansi,IV, 1330-1338.