Among ourselves there is frequent
discussion, and they will ask, “Is Mary the Theotókos, and is, the Deipara
or Mother of God or she she rather the Anthropotókos, that is, Mother of
Man?”
Does God have a Mother? A Greek would
introduce mothers of god would be blameless. . . . A creature did not bring
forth the Creator, but bore a Man, an instrument of divinity. (θεοτητος οργανον) (Nestorius,
Sermon 9, The Faith of the Early Fathers, 3 vols. [trans. William A.
Jurgens; Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, 1979], 3:203)
There is a division of the divinity
and the humanity. Christ, inasmuch as He is Christ, is undivided; the Son,
inasmuch as He is the Son, is undivided. For we do not have two Christs, nor do
we have two Sons. With us there is not a first Christ and a second, nor this
Christ and another one, nor this Son now, and again another Son; rather, the
same one is twofold (αλλ’ αυτος ο εις εστι
διπλους), not by divinity but by nature. (Sermon 12,
Ibid., 203-4)
The Word of God is the God of Christ.
. . . For the same was both Infant and Master (δεσποτης) of the Infant. You have approved what I
said; but do not clap your hands for it without examining it. For I said, “The
same was Infant and Inhabitant (οικητωρ) of the
Infant.” (Sermon 15, ibid., 204)
