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not being ashamed of the Mother of God and holy Mary as the mother of the Lord, but as a stiff-necked and impudent slave denying his own Lord, and despising His mother; grudging not so much the title of Mother of God to her, as the name of divinity to the One born of her. This, therefore, is that Nestorius who, having become the third champion of this Jewish heresy, appropriated it to himself.
OPINION OF EUTYCHES.
A third defender of the opposing faction, which has Manes and Apollinaris as its authors, emerged in the person of Eutyches, the overseer of a certain monastery near Byzantium. For he, by no means sustaining the confession that the flesh of the Lord is co-essential and connatural with us, denied that two natures remain safe in Christ after their union and co-existence. And not only this, but he also fabricated other monstrous and strange things, namely that the body of the Lord was brought from heaven, and that God the Word ran down from heaven as if through a pipe of the Virgin,