The XII. Anathematisms of St. Cyril Against Nestorius

• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 1 — (Found in St. Cyril’s Opera. Migne, Pat. Græc, Tom. LXXVII., Col. 119; and the Concilia.)vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 2 — If anyone shall not confess that the Word of God the Father is united hypostatically to flesh, and that with that flesh of his own, he is one only Christ both God and man at the same time: let him be anathema.vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 3 — If anyone shall after the [hypostatic] union divide the hypostases in the one Christ, joining them by that connexion alone, which happens according to worthiness, or even authority and power, and not rather by a…vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 4 — If anyone shall divide between two persons or subsistences those expressions (φωνάς) which are contained in the Evangelical and Apostolical writings, or which have been said concerning Christ by the Saints, or by…vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 5 — If anyone shall dare to say that the Christ is a Theophorus [that is, God-bearing] man and not rather that he is very God, as an only Son through nature, because “the Word was made flesh,” and “hath a share in flesh…vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 6 — If anyone shall dare say that the Word of God the Father is the God of Christ or the Lord of Christ, and shall not rather confess him as at the same time both God and Man, since according to the Scriptures, “The Word…vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 7 — If anyone shall say that Jesus as man is only energized by the Word of God, and that the glory of the Only-begotten is attributed to him as something not properly his: let him be anathema.vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 8 — If anyone shall dare to say that the assumed man (ἀναληφθέντα ) ought to be worshipped together with God the Word, and glorified together with him, and recognised together with him as God, and yet as two different…vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 9 — If any man shall say that the one Lord Jesus Christ was glorified by the Holy Ghost, so that he used through him a power not his own and from him received power against unclean spirits and power to work miracles…vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 10 — Whosoever shall say that it is not the divine Word himself, when he was made flesh and had become man as we are, but another than he, a man born of a woman, yet different from him (ἰδικῶς ἄνθρωπον), who is become our…vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 11 — Whosoever shall not confess that the flesh of the Lord giveth life and that it pertains to the Word of God the Father as his very own, but shall pretend that it belongs to another person who is united to him [i.e.,…vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Anathematism 12 — Whosoever shall not recognize that the Word of God suffered in the flesh, that he was crucified in the flesh, and that likewise in that same flesh he tasted death and that he is become the first-begotten of the dead,…vatican.va

Editor's excursus

• Council of Ephesus, Excursus on the Word Θεοτόκος — There have been some who have tried to reduce all the great theological controversies on the Trinity and on the Incarnation to mere logomachies, and have jeered at those who could waste their time and energies over…vatican.va
• Council of Ephesus, Excursus on How Our Lord Worked Miracles — In view of the fact that many are now presenting as if something newly discovered, and as the latest results of biblical study, the interpretations of the early heretics with regard to our Lord’s powers and to his…vatican.va