A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

559common judgment of all the most holy bishops; therefore knowthou, O Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, and thou, O Memnon, bishopof this city, that ye are dismissed and deposed from all sacerdotalfunctions as the originators and leaders of all this disorder andlawlessness, and those who have violated the canons of the Fathersand the imperial decrees. And all ye others who seditiouslyand wickedly, and contrary to all ecclesiastical sanctions and theroyal decrees, gave your consent are excommunicated until youacknowledge your fault and reform and accept anew the faith setforth by the holy Fathers at Nicæa, adding to it nothing foreign ordifferent, and until ye anathematize the heretical propositions ofCyril, which are plainly repugnant to evangelical and apostolicdoctrine, and in all things comply with the letters of our mostpious and Christ-loving emperors, who require a peaceful andaccurate consideration of the dogma.(f) Creed of Antioch A. D. 433. Hahn, § 170.This creed was probably composed by Theodoret of Cyrus,and was sent by Count Johannes to the Emperor Theodosiusin 431 as expressing the teaching of the Antiochian party.The bitterest period of the Nestorian controversy was afterthe council which is commonly regarded as having settledit. The Antiochians and the Alexandrians attacked each othervigorously. At last, in 433, John, bishop of Antioch, sent thecreed given below to Cyril of Alexandria, who signed it. Thecreed expresses accurately the position of Nestorius. In thisway a union was patched up between the contending parties.But the irreconcilable Nestorians left the Church permanently.This creed in the form in which it had been presented to theEmperor was at the beginning and the end worded somewhatdifferently, cf. Hahn, loc. cit., note.We therefore acknowledge our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son ofGod, the only begotten, complete God and complete man, of a