As to wit: when Nestorius attacked the Adorable
Religion which the Fathers handed down (to us) and
which Holy Priests assembled of old at the City of
Niceea from every quarter (of the world) for the
purpose ofconfirming and consolidating—when (after-
wards, I say,) this Nestorius publicly proclaimed
positions (of Doctrine calculated to conduce) to the
prejudice and injury of the simple (the Faithful),
immediately our Clemency, in case the evil, creeping
in by a licence of speech, should render obdurate the
minds of the simple-minded, rather (if it be proper





“Translation” here implies that, first, the Roman Law was written in
Latin and Greek. Then the original Greek Transcriber of that Law
3) written rendered into it Greek for the Church’s Synod or for some of
the Metropolitans, and finally the Syriac transcriber (see his note at
the end) of the Greek Acts brought it into his MS, which we now
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to speak the truth) lest it should destroy them com-
pletely, gave orders that the Bishops should assemble,
not inconsiderately and suddenly—for, it was no little
or trifling subject on which there was deliberation,
but one relating to our Adorable Religion, (the
principles of) which uphold and consolidate our
Kingdom—that, for this purpose, Expounders and
Doctors of the Divine Religion, selected from the
whole Empire, as is right and just to say, of the
Romans, should proceed to and assemble together at
Ephesus in order to search into and investigate, with
a judgment prompted by Religion and Justice,
certain hitherto insoluble (unsolved) questions which
we brought to their remembrance, who not only con-
solidated and confirmed for us The Faith which was
from the beginning transmitted to us, but, having
proved the controversy of the aforesaid Nestorius to
be groundless, deposed him from the Throne of the
Episcopate and divested him of (its) Dignity.
