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Excerpt from The Conditions of Our Lord's Life on Earth: Being Five Lectures Delivered on the Bishop Paddock Foundation, in the General Seminary at New York, 1896 It must be remembered, however, what was the special heresy against which the Anathemas of Cyril were directed. The word one, near the beginning of the ninth, strikes the note. They are directed against Nestorianism, not against Arianism, or any form Of thought which might seem to lower the eternal Person Of the Word as such. The Nestorian heresy made the Lord Jesus Christ two persons, not one; and it would seem (we know little Of N estorius's teach ing except through Cyril's polemic against it) that Nestorius had used the text, He Shall glorify Me (st. John xvi. As an indication that there was in Christ a human person who could Speak of being glorified by the Spirit, dis tinct from that Divine Person of the Word who. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.