Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — Section 1441
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 12
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 12
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And certainly we know that many priests of the Constantinopolitan Church have fallen into the whirlpool of heresy, and have become not only heretics, but even heresiarchs. For thence came Nestorius, who, thinking Jesus Christ, the Mediator of God and men, to be two persons, because he did not believe that God could be made man, broke out even into Jewish perfidy. Thence came Macedonius, who denied that God the Holy Spirit was consubstantial with the Father and the Son. If then any one in that Church takes to himself that name, whereby he makes himself the head of all the good, it follo…
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