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On the Incarnation, against Nestorius

St John Cassian, NPNF II.11

Preface
Book 1, 1. The heresy compared to the hydra of the poets.
Book 1, Description of the different heretical monsters which spring from one another.
Book 1, 3. He describes the pestilent error of the Pelagian.
Book 1, 4. Leporius together with some others recants His Pelagianism.
Book 1, By the case of Leporius he establishes the fact that an open sin ought to be…
Book 1, The united doctrine of the Catholics is to be received as the orthodox faith.
Book 2, How the errors of later heretics have been condemned and refuted in the persons…
Book 2, Proof that the Virgin Mother of God was not only Christotocos but also Theotocos,…
Book 2, Follows up the same argument with passages from the Old Testament.
Book 2, He produces testimonies to the same doctrine from the Apostle Paul.
Book 2, From the gifts of Divine grace which we receive through Christ he infers that He…
Book 2, That the power of bestowing Divine grace did not come to Christ in the course of…
Book 2, How in Christ the Divinity, Majesty, Might and Power have existed in perfection…
Book 3, That Christ, who is God and man in the unity of Person, sprang from Israel and…
Book 3, The title of God is given in one sense to Christ, and in another to men.
Book 3, He explains the apostle’s saying: “If from henceforth we know no man according to…
Book 3, From the Epistle to the Galatians he brings forward a passage to show that the…
Book 3, As it is blasphemy to pare away the Divinity of Christ, so also is it blasphemous…
Book 3, He shows from the appearance of Christ vouchsafed to the Apostle when persecuting…
Book 3, He shows once more by other passages of the Apostle that Christ is God.
Book 3, When confessing the Divinity of Christ we ought not to pass over in silence the…
Book 3, How the Apostle’s preaching was rejected by Jews and Gentiles because it…
Book 3, How the apostle maintains that Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Book 3, 11. He supports the same doctrine by proofs from the gospel.
Book 3, He proves from the renowned confession of the blessed Peter that Christ is God.
Book 3, The confession of the blessed Peter receives a testimony to its truth from Christ…
Book 3, How the confession of the blessed Peter is the faith of the whole Church.
Book 3, St. Thomas also confessed the same faith as Peter after the Lord’s resurrection.
Book 3, He brings forward the witness of God the Father to the Divinity of the Son.
Book 4, That Christ was before the Incarnation God from everlasting.
Book 4, He infers from what he has said that the Virgin Mary gave birth to a Son who had…
Book 4, He proves from the Epistle to the Romans the eternal Divinity of Christ.
Book 4, 4. He brings forward other testimonies to the same view.
Book 4, How in virtue of the hypostatic union of the two natures in Christ the Word is…
Book 4, That there is in Christ but one Hypostasis (i.e., Personal self).
Book 4, He returns to the former subject, in order to show against the Nestorians that…
Book 4, How this interchange of titles does not interfere with His Divine power.
Book 4, He corroborates this statement by the authority of the old prophets.
Book 4, He proves Christ’s Divinity from the blasphemy of Judaizing Jews as well as from…
Book 4, 11. He returns to the prophecy of Isaiah.
Book 4, How the title of Saviour is given to Christ in one sense, and to men in another.
Book 4, He explains who are those in whose person the Prophet Isaiah says: “Thou art our…
Book 5, He vehemently inveighs against the error of the Pelagians, who declared that…
Book 5, That the doctrine of Nestorius is closely connected with the error of the…
Book 5, How this participation in Divinity which the Pelagians and Nestorians attribute…
Book 5, 4. What the difference is between Christ and the saints.
Book 5, That before His birth in time Christ was always called God by the prophets.
Book 5, He illustrates the same doctrine by passages from the New Testament.
Book 5, He shows again from the union in Christ of two natures in one Person that what…
Book 5, He confirms the judgment of the Apostle by the authority of the Lord.
Book 5, Since those marvellous works which from the days of Moses were shown to the…
Book 5, He explains what it means to confess, and what it means to dissolve Jesus.
Book 5, The mystery of the Lord’s Incarnation clearly implies the Divinity of Christ.
Book 5, He explains more fully what the mystery is which is signified under the name of…
Book 5, Of the longing with which the old patriarchs desired to see the revelation of…
Book 5, He refutes the wicked and blasphemous notion of the heretics who said that God…
Book 5, What the prayers of the saints for the coming of Messiah contained; and what was…
Book 6, From the miracle of the feeding of the multitude from five barley loaves and two…
Book 6, The author adapts the mystery of the number seven (made up of the five loaves and…
Book 6, He refutes his opponent by the testimony of the Council of Antioch.
Book 6, 4. How the Creed has authority Divine as well as human.
Book 6, He proceeds against his opponent with the choicest arguments, and shows that we…
Book 6, Once more he challenges him to the profession of the Creed of Antioch.
Book 6, He continues the same line of argument drawn from the Creed of Antioch.
Book 6, How it can be said that Christ came and was born of a Virgin.
Book 6, Again he convicts his opponent of deadly heresy by his own confession.
Book 6, He inveighs against him because though he has forsaken the Catholic religion, he…
Book 6, He removes the silent objection of heretics who want to recant the profession of…
Book 6, Christ crucified is an offence and foolishness to those who declare that He was a…
Book 6, He replies to the objection in which they say that the child born ought to be of…
Book 6, He compares this erroneous view with the teaching of the Pelagians.
Book 6, He shows that those who patronize this false teaching acknowledge two Christs.
Book 6, He shows further that this teaching is destructive of the confession of the…
Book 6, Those who are under an error in one point of the Catholic religion, lose the…
Book 6, He directs his discourse upon his antagonist with whom he is disputing, and begs…
Book 6, That the birth of Christ in time diminished nothing of the glory and power of His…
Book 6, He shows from what has been said that we do not mean that God was mortal or of…
Book 6, The authority of Holy Scripture teaches that Christ existed from all eternity.
Book 6, The hypostatic union enables us to ascribe to God what belongs to the flesh in…
Book 6, That the figure Synecdoche, in which the part stands for the whole, is very…
Book 7, As he is going to reply to the slanders of his opponents he implores the aid of…
Book 7, He meets the objection taken from these words: No one gave birth to one who had…
Book 7, He replies to the cavil that the one who is born must be of one substance with…
Book 7, How God has shown His Omnipotence in His birth in time as well as in everything…
Book 7, He shows by proofs drawn from nature itself, that the law which his opponents lay…
Book 7, He refutes another argument of Nestorius, in which he tried to make out that…
Book 7, Heretics usually cover their doctrines with a cloak of holy Scripture.
Book 7, The heretics attribute to Christ only the shadow of Divinity, and so assert that…
Book 7, How those. are wrong who say that the birth of Christ was a secret, since it was…
Book 7, 10. He collects more witnesses of the same fact.
Book 7, How the devil was forced by many reasons to the view that Christ was God.
Book 7, He compares this notion and reasonable suspicion of the devil with the obstinate…
Book 7, How the devil always retained this notion of Christ’s Divinity (because of His…
Book 7, He shows how heretics pervert holy Scripture, by replying to the argument drawn…
Book 7, How Christ could be said by the Apostle to be without genealogy.
Book 7, He shows that like the devil when tempting Christ, the heretics garble and…
Book 7, That the glory and honour of Christ is not to be ascribed to the Holy Ghost in…
Book 7, How we are to understand the Apostle’s words: “He appeared in the flesh, was…
Book 7, That it was not only the Spirit, but Christ Himself also who made Him to be…
Book 7, He tries by stronger and weightier arguments to destroy that notion.
Book 7, That it must be ascribed equally to Christ and the Holy Ghost that His flesh and…
Book 7, That the raising up of Christ into heaven is not to be ascribed to the Spirit…
Book 7, He continues the same argument to show that Christ had no need of another’s glory…
Book 7, He supports this doctrine by the authority of the blessed Hilary.
Book 7, 25. He shows that Ambrose agrees with S.
Book 7, 26. He adds to the foregoing the testimony of S.
Book 7, 27. To the foregoing he adds Rufinus and the blessed Augustine.
Book 7, As he is going to produce the testimony of Greek or Eastern Bishops, he brings…
Book 7, 29. In the next place he puts the authority of S.
Book 7, 30. He adds also S. John Chrysostom.
Book 7, He bemoans the unhappy lot of Constantinople, owing to the misfortune which has…