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    This document contains 9 anathemas issued by St. Cyril of Alexandria against Nestorius. The anathemas condemn those who do not acknowledge that Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully man, that he was personally united with human flesh, and that Mary is rightly called the Mother of God since she gave birth to the incarnate Word of God. Anyone who divides Christ into separate persons or natures, or attributes some acts solely to his humanity or divinity, is declared anathema.

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    This document contains 9 anathemas issued by St. Cyril of Alexandria against Nestorius. The anathemas condemn those who do not acknowledge that Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully man, that he was personally united with human flesh, and that Mary is rightly called the Mother of God since she gave birth to the incarnate Word of God. Anyone who divides Christ into separate persons or natures, or attributes some acts solely to his humanity or divinity, is declared anathema.

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    The Anathemas of Cyril of Alexandria


    (Against Nestorius)

    1) If any one does not acknowledge that Emmanuel is in truth God, and that the holy Virgin is, in
    consequence, 'Theotokos (Mother of God) for she brought forth after the flesh the Word of God who
    has become flesh, let him be anathema.

    2) If any one does not acknowledge that the Word which is from God the Father was personally
    united with flesh, and with his own flesh is one Christ, that is, one and the same God and man
    together, let him be anathema.

    3) If any one in the one Christ divides the persons after their union, conjoining them with a mere
    conjunction in accordance with worth, or a conjunction effected by authority or power, instead of a
    combination according to a union of natures, let him be anathema.

    4) If any one distributes between two characters or persons the expressions used about Christ in the
    gospels, etc. ... applying some to the man, conceived of separately, apart from the Word, ... others
    exclusively to the Word. ..., let him be anathema.

    5) If any one presumes to call Christ a 'God-bearing man'..., let him be anathema.

    6) If any one presumes to call the Word the God or Lord of Christ..., let him be anathema.

    7) If any one says that Jesus as man was operated by God the Word, and that the 'glory of the only-
    begotten' was attached to him, as something existing apart from himself..., let him be anathema.

    8) If anyone presumes to say that 'the man who was assumed is to be worshipped together with the
    Divine Word'..., let him be anathema.

    9) If any one says that the one Lord Jesus Christ was glorified by the Spirit, as if he exercised a
    power alien to himself which came to him through the Spirit..., let him be anathema.

    12) If any one does not confess that the Word of God suffered in the flesh and was crucified in the
    flesh..., let him be anathema.

    (The foregoing Anathemas were approved at the Third Ecumenical Council at Ephesus in 431. At the
    same council, the term Christotokos (bearer or mother of Christ) was specifically rejected and
    condemned in favor of the term Theotokos (Mother of God)).

    http://www.stmichael.org/Cyril1.html 28.08.2002

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