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On the Incarnation of the Lord
Against Nestorius
St. John Cassian · image, public domain
Written at the request of the archdeacon of Rome, the future St. Leo, just before the Council of Ephesus. St. John Cassian answers Nestorius, who would not call the Virgin Mary the Mother of God.
It closes with the creed of Antioch, the church where Nestorius had been baptized.
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About this edition
Translated by Edgar C. S. Gibson, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 11 (1894), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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